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'Coughing' bus shelter installed in Ayr town centre

05.03.2015 14:42
People waiting at the stop can hear the sound of a man coughing before a woman is heard urging people to visit their GP if they, or someone they know, has had a cough for three weeks or more. The shelter has been placed in Sandgate, in Ayr's town centre. Run by the Scottish government's...

'First human' discovered in Ethiopia

05.03.2015 14:39
The 2.8 million-year-old specimen is 400,000 years older than researchers thought that our kind first emerged. The discovery in Ethiopia suggests climate change spurred the transition from tree dweller to upright walker. The head of the research team told BBC News that the find gives the first...

Iran rejects Obama nuclear call before Netanyahu speech

03.03.2015 16:31
Iran has rejected as "excessive and illogical" a demand by US President Barack Obama that it freeze sensitive nuclear activity for at least 10 years. Iranian Foreign Minister Javad Zarif was quoted saying Mr Obama spoke in "unacceptable and threatening" terms. Mr Zarif said talks on Iran's...

Clinton used personal email account as Secretary of State

03.03.2015 16:23
WASHINGTON (AP) — Hillary Rodham Clinton used a personal email account during her time as secretary of state, rather than a government-issued email address, potentially hampering efforts to archive official government documents required by law. Clinton's office said nothing was illegal or improper...

Organ donation rates held back by families refusing consent, study finds

03.03.2015 16:20
Family members refusing to consent to the organs of their loved ones being donated after they die are keeping organ donation rates in Australia low, new research has found. While doctors were good at identifying which patients may be suitable for organ donation, low next-of-kin consent rates meant...

Mouse gene could help produce TB- resistant cattle, study shows

03.03.2015 16:17
Breakthrough as scientists in China produce genetically modified animals that are more difficult to infect with tuberculosis More news Topics Agriculture Animals Genetics Medical research Genetic engineering technique could reduce need for culls of infected cattle and the blanket use of antibiotic...

No sex please; it's the internet

03.03.2015 16:15
Google recently reversed their decision that ‘adult’ material should be removed from the Blogger network. Regardless of the outcome, this shows how corporations have an alarming authority to change and control what’s online More blogposts Topics Censorship Sex Pornography Google Web filtering...

For Netanyahu and Obama, Difference Over Iran Widened Into Chasm

03.03.2015 16:08
WASHINGTON — Over six years of bitter disagreements about how to deal with the Iranian nuclear threat, President Obama and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel kept running into one central problem: The two leaders never described their ultimate goal in quite the same way. Mr. Obama has...

Execution of Georgia Woman Is Postponed Indefinitely

03.03.2015 16:05
ATLANTA — The state of Georgia on Monday night indefinitely delayed the execution of the only woman on its death row after officials noticed that the drug to be used for a lethal injection had become “cloudy.” The inmate, Kelly R. Gissendaner, who was sentenced to death for arranging the murder of...

Dozens hurt when Southern California train crashes, derails

24.02.2015 17:39
OXNARD, Calif. (AP) — A Southern California commuter train crashed into a truck and derailed early Tuesday, injuring dozens of people. Three cars of the Metrolink train tumbled onto their sides in agricultural country 65 miles northwest of Los Angeles. Metrolink spokesman Scott Johnson told...
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