Reuters - Arsenic, a naturally occurring poison
and carcinogen found in ground water, is strongly linked to
adult-onset diabetes, U.S. researchers said on Tuesday.
AP - Insurgents mounted two of the biggest attacks in years on Western forces in Afghanistan, killing 10 French soldiers in a mountain ambush and then sending a squad of suicide bombers in a failed assault early Tuesday on a U.S. base near the Pakistan border.
AP - Poll workers will not be allowed to take voting machines home for safekeeping in the days before the November presidential election because the practice known as "sleepovers" is an unacceptable security risk, the state elections chief said Tuesday.
AP - Eighteen hospitals in California were fined for state health code violations in which patients received shoddy care that in some cases led to deaths.
AP - An 85-year-old woman boldly went for her gun and busted a would-be burglar inside her home, then forced him to call police while she kept him in her sights, police said. "I just walked right on past him to the bedroom and got my gun," Leda Smith said.
08/19/2008 11:25 PM
Reuters - "Samantha Who?" star Christina
Applegate, 36, is free of cancer after having both breasts
removed to combat the disease, the actress told a U.S.
television news show on Tuesday.
AFP - Construction of new homes in the United States plunged 11 percent in July to the lowest level in 17 years amid the worst housing slump in decades, government data showed Tuesday.
AP - Pakistan's army chief made a surprise visit to Afghanistan Tuesday for border security talks with NATO and Afghan commanders, just a day after Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf announced his resignation.
The Christian Science Monitor - In the wake of setbacks suffered by Al Qaeda in Iraq, Afghanistan is becoming the preferred destination for Muslims, particularly from Arab nations, seeking to wage jihad against the West.
08/18/2008 05:00 AM
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