May 5 2008
A new study provides some of the best evidence to date that breast-feeding can make children smarter, an international team of researchers said on Monday. Children whose mothers breast-fed them longer and did not mix in baby formula scored higher on...
May 5 2008
Having short arms and legs may raise a person’s risk of developing memory problems later in life, U.S. researchers said on Monday. They said women with the shortest arm spans were 50 percent more likely to develop dementia and Alzheimer’s...
May 5 2008
Nearly one-third of ivory items for sale in the United States may have been illegally imported after a US moratorium on the trade imposed in 1989, conservation groups said in a report Monday. A survey conducted for the groups Care For the Wild...
May 5 2008
Sudanese government bombs have hit a primary school and a busy market place in Darfur, killing at least 13 people, including seven children, two aid organizations said on Monday. The Sudanese army was not immediately available to comment but has...
May 5 2008
Myanmar said Monday more than 10,000 people died in the cyclone that battered the impoverished nation, whose secretive military rulers made a rare appeal for international help to cope with the tragedy. Reeling from the weekend disaster, which also...
May 5 2008
Iran accused U.S.-led forces on Monday of a “massacre” of the Iraqi people and said further talks with Washington about improving security in its neighbor would be meaningless now. The Foreign Ministry statement effectively puts on hold any...
May 5 2008
The bodies of three dead babies have been discovered in a freezer in the cellar of a house in Wenden near Bonn in western Germany, prosecutors told AFP on Monday. One person has been arrested, prosecutors said, adding that the babies appear to have...
May 5 2008
The death toll from the cyclone that hit Myanmar over the weekend has reached 3,969, state television said Monday, warning that thousands more could be dead. Aid agencies Monday rushed emergency food and water into Myanmar after the cyclone tore into...
May 5 2008
Never mind the radiation: British contingency planners worried there would be a dramatic shortage of tea in the aftermath of a nuclear attack, recently declassified documents showed Monday. The shortfall of the staple British beverage would be...
May 5 2008
A speech-writer for France’s foreign minister has penned a literary, lustful and possibly lecherous “Guide to the Pretty Women of Paris” which blows a loud raspberry at political correctness. “Just as every region has its...