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As political unrest shakes its tiny Gulf ally Bahrain, much more is at stake for the United States than just the fate of the US Fifth Fleet’s base, analysts said. Also in play are Washington’s extensive strategic ties with Bahrain’s influential oil-rich neighbor Saudi Arabia and efforts by US arch-foe Iran to spread its influence […]

Surgeons in southern China successfully removed a rusty 10-centimetre knife from the skull of a man who said it had been there for four years, the hospital said. Li Fuyan, 30, had been complaining of severe headaches, bad breath and breathing difficulties but never knew the cause of his discomfort, a senior official at the […]

Britain is preparing to let in some 20,000 skilled Indian workers every year, a media report said, citing secret documents. The Indian migrants, most of them skilled information technology professionals, are to be allowed into the UK every year under the multi-billion-pound European Union-India Free Trade Agreement which is being negotiated in the corridors of […]

HENRY Morello began to lose hope after being stranded in his car in the Arizona desert for five long days in which the 84-year-old drank windshield wiper fluid, used car mats to stay warm and read a car manual from cover to cover to pass the time. Then, he heard a knock on a window […]

CT SCANS, MRIs and other pricey imaging tests are often more for American doctor’s benefit than the patient’s, new research confirms. Roughly one-fifth of tests that bone and joint specialists order are because a doctor fears being sued, not because the patient needs them, a first-of-its-kind study in Pennsylvania suggests. The study comes a day […]

CYBER crime costs the British economy some 27 billion pounds a year and appears to be ‘endemic’, according to the first official government estimate of the issue published on Thursday. The study by the Office of Cyber Security and Information Assurance concluded digital crime is a growing, widespread problem, and attempts to address it have […]

An Iraqi man whose testimony the United States used as a key evidence to build a case for war in Iraq says he is proud that he lied about his country developing mobile biological warfare labs. The Guardian newspaper published an interview Wednesday with Rafid Ahmed Alwan al-Janabi, who has been identified as the informer […]

The environment, the futuristic Joint Strike Fighter and even Sesame Street’s Big Bird and Elmo are in the firing line of a political shoot-out between Democrats and Republicans over US debt. They each face cutbacks as the parties scrap over plans aimed at curbing the nation’s budget deficit, which is tipped to pass $US1 trillion […]

PRINCE Harry has been confirmed as Prince William’s choice for best man at his April 29 wedding to Kate Middleton. Philippa Middleton – the sister of 29-year-old bride-to-be Kate – will act as maid of honor at the wedding, Clarence House confirmed. The roles were announced Monday via Clarence House’s Twitter page. “Prince William and […]

A GROUP of volunteers will step out for a ‘space walk’ on Mars on Monday, as an unprecedented one-and-a-half year experiment to study the effects of a mission to the Red Planet reaches its climax. Two volunteers from Italy and Russia will step onto a sandy mock-up of the Martian surface, at around 1pm (1000 […]