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PORT-AU-PRINCE (Reuters) – Hurricane Tomas soaked Haiti’s crowded earthquake survivors’ camps and swamped coastal towns on Friday, triggering flooding and mudslides that killed at least seven people.

China Media Project translates an analysis of China’s educated youth by Professor and Director of the Rural Development Institute’s Social Issues Research Center at the Chinese Academy for Social Sciences (CASS): China’s so-called “educated…

An adult film actor who tested positive for HIV last month hasn’t infected anyone through sexual contact, according to testing at the San Fernando Valley clinic that discovered the case.

Eating well has always been easy in wine regions. It makes sense: people who pay close attention to what they drink don’t typically settle for fast-food cheeseburgers.

SAN DIEGO, Nov. 5, 2010 /PRNewswire/ — Ambit Biosciences Corporation (“Ambit”), announced today that it has filed a registration statement with the Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”) relating to the proposed initial public offering…

The harder we have to try to obtain something, the more we realise its worth. This applies even to food we normally find unappetising, a study shows.

Jolting the brain with an electric current can make it good or bad with numbers, depending on the spot where it is applied, study shows.

Popular home treatments for teeth whitening, using baking soda, ash and hydrogen peroxide, can strip tooth enamel and cause lasting damage to the gums, dentists say.

• Plan aims to cut UK’s rate of infection among young• Many with symptoms ‘too embarrassed to go to GP’Mobile phones and computers will soon be able to diagnose sexually transmitted diseases under innovative plans to cut the UK’s rising rate of herpes, chlamydia and gonorrhoea among young people.Doctors and technology experts are developing small [...]

An adult film actor who tested positive for HIV last month hasn’t infected anyone through sexual contact, according to testing at the San Fernando Valley clinic that discovered the case.

It is said that humans cannot ignore the sound of a barking dog. On these flat fields fringing the Solway Firth, the yap-yapping is an irresistible winter soundtrack. An aural magnet, it draws me once again into a belt of sycamore trees. These peculiar calls are described in field guides as dog-like but, as often [...]

René Redzepi’s restaurant, Noma, is the best in the world. His new cookbook has been described as ‘the most important of the year’, and this week he was even on Masterchef. So why the long face?Only the live prawn went uneaten (and most of the sea urchin, which is a more complicated story). The prawn [...]

Barack Obama will need more than contrition to secure a second term (Obama admits he needs ‘to do a better job’, 4 November). He was hammered because most Americans, like European, Chinese and everyone else are feeling insecure about their jobs and general economic prospects. Unlike under Reagan and Clinton, the second half of his [...]

Joanna Moorhead meets the family who agreed to let TV cameras watch their every moveJulie Adesina was at work, serving in her takeaway in London, when a TV researcher dropped in. Would she, the researcher asked, be willing to have cameras rigged up in her home, so that she and her family could be filmed [...]

Rock star Sheryl Crow’s dream of a family fell apart when her wedding to Lance Armstrong, the cyclist, was called off – and then she learnt she had cancer. But it all helped her focus on what she really wantedWhen Sheryl Crow was younger – an optimistic twentysomething and then stoically hopeful in her 30s [...]