Bomb strikes UN HQ in Baghdad, 20 die, 100 injured The Star Wed, 30 May 2012 17:45 PM PDT BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) - A cement truck packed with explosives detonated outside the offices of the top U.N. envoy in Iraq, killing him and 19 other people and devastating the U.N. headquarters here in an unprecedented suicide attack against the world body. | Peterborough police taking part in search for Montreal man in body parts case The Peterborough Examiner Wed, 30 May 2012 17:37 PM PDT City police have spoken with local family members of Luka Rocca Magnotta, the Montreal man wanted in connection with a gruesome slaying that saw a foot mailed to the Conservative Party headquarters in Ottawa, a hand found in Canada Post mail and a torso discovered in a Montreal garbage pile.[...] | London 2012 Olympics: Ben Helfgott to address England Daily Mail Wed, 30 May 2012 17:37 PM PDT His clothes filthy, his eyes sunken and his body little more than skin and bones, Ben Helfgott was liberated from Theresienstadt concentration camp in 1945 weighing six stone. | From the archives San Mateo Daily Journal Wed, 30 May 2012 17:27 PM PDT The week of June 2, 2007, then-assemblyman Gene Mullin, D-South San Francisco, pulled a proposal mandating state coroners notify the next-of-kin for post-autopsy organ retention rather than eliminate the requirement they return the body parts. | City offers cardio tennis Rolla Daily News Wed, 30 May 2012 17:17 PM PDT Improve your fitness and tennis at the same time by joining the new cardio tennis program offered by the Rolla Parks & Recreation Department. Cardio tennis is a high energy fitness activity that combines the best features of the sport of tennis with cardiovascular exercise, delivering the ultimate, full body, calorie burning aerobic workout. It is a very social and fun class for players of all ... | Detecting cancers -- from tiny bits of tumor DNA in blood Los Angeles Times Wed, 30 May 2012 17:11 PM PDT When cancer blooms in the body, tiny bits of tumor DNA can be found in the blood . Cancer specialists would love it if these DNA fragments could one day be used in noninvasive diagnostic tests -- âliquid biopsies â -- that are relatively inexpensive and sensitive. There's a lot of work going on in this area right now. | | |
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