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CHOOSING the right formula could stave off infant diabetes, according to a new global study distributed today. The study showed that if a mother transitions from breastfeeding to “highly hydrolyzed formula”, which is broken down […] […]

AT least 12 Pakistani children were killed and two others injured when the bus taking them to school plunged into a canal in Kashmir today, police said. The accident took place near Mirpur town, about […] […]

Gunmen stormed a wedding party in eastern Afghanistan overnight, killing the groom and eight other people in an attack blamed on Taleban-linked insurgents, officials say. The groom was a cousin of the local district chief, […] […]

The bucket list of a 15-year-old English girl who is suffering from terminal cancer has become an internet hit in only three days. Alice Pyne’s blog, which lists the things which she wants to do […] […]

A murder mystery has been solved – 65 years later – with the confession of a 96-year-old woman. The 1946 killing of Felix Gulje, the head of a construction company who was being considered for […] […]

Kate Middleton allegedly had her bank account hacked by a private detective working for the News of the World, Britain’s Daily Telegraph reports. The Duchess of Cambridge is among a number of high profile people […] […]

CHICAGO—A federal jury convicted a Canadian businessman on Thursday of helping plot an attack against a Danish newspaper that printed cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad but cleared him of the most serious charge accusing him […] […]

GUVECCI, TURKEY—Syrian troops encircled a restive northern town on Thursday, an activist said, and more than 1,000 residents fled through a single escape route to Turkey where they camped outside on both sides of the […] […]

LIBYAN leader Muammar Gaddafi, increasingly cornered by a stunning upturn in NATO airstrikes, lashed back with renewed shelling on the outskirts of the western city of Misratah yesterday, killing 10 rebel fighters. The international alliance […] […]

MAYOR Boris Johnson joined police in dawn raids yesterday when Scotland Yard launched a major operation against rising burglary and robbery rates. A suspect at one house in Tottenham, where police smashed open the door […] […]