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The Red Cross blood drive

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The CDC Director Says No Words Are Actually Banned At The CDC

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Trump administration blames North Korea for 'WannaCry' ransomware

Thomas Bossert, a Homeland Security adviser to President Donald Trump, laid out the Administration's case against North Korea in an op-ed in the Wall Street Jo...

Virat Kohli, Anushka Sharma are in Delhi; check out their first pictures

Some pictures of Virat and Anushka time with their close family members have gone viral on social media. The wedding was a well kept secret, not only did the me...

Delhi Metro set to inaugurate Magenta Line on December 25

Starting from December 25 in a section of the Magenta Line, trains will start operating. The launch of the long corridor from Botanical Garden to Janakpuri We...

Prostitution racket busted, two actresses arrested from five-star hotels

As per News gave out by Media the two actresses have been identified by the police as actor Subhra Chatterjee and another female actor, Richa Saksena. Both ac...

Tillerson: North Korea 'must earn its way back' to negotiations

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Iredell Health Department: It's not too late for your flu shot

During the week ending December 9 ( most recent data available), there were 144 new flu-associated hospitalizations in OH, compared to 92 the week prior, and...

Rams can make huge NFC West statement with win over Seahawks

The Seahawks weren't simply beaten. There was no point where it seemed the Seahawks were even going to threaten the Rams and that might be most troublesome ...

Twitter reacts to the triumphant return of Aaron Rodgers

Aaron Rodgers threw an interception on the Packers' first possession of the third quarter. Adams was diagnosed with a concussion and has been ruled out for t...

Nassar's former boss, MSU Dean of Osteopathic Medicine steps down

After the federal sentencing on December 7, Shannon Smith and Matt Newburg, the attorneys who have represented Nassar since previous year, indicated that they w...

Rudy Gobert will miss 1 month with knee injury, per report

Just two minutes into the Utah Jazz's game against the Boston Celtics Friday night, Gobert limped off the court with what is being diagnosed as a Grade 1 ...

Bengaluru Police Calls Off Sunny Leone Event After Protests from Kannada Groups

The version titled Man vs Wild with Sunny Leone will be telecast in Hindi on the soon-to-be-launched channel Discovery JEET. "Since, entire force will be depl...

Goods Transported across States to be e-Registered

The Council fixed 1 February as the compliance date for inter-state movement of goods, said the report citing sources in the panel. The all-powerful GST Cou...

Court upholds Salvadoran woman's 30-year sentence after stillbirth

She told the court that she had called an ambulance and collapsed after suffering severe abdominal pain while heavily pregnant in 2007. When she woke up, sh...

Trump Bans CDC From Using 7 Words Including 'Fetus' And 'Transgender'

A "longtime CDC analyst" who spoke to the Post said that they did not remember a time when an administration previous banned "controversial" words from budg...

Overall teen drug use stable, but marijuana edging up, survey finds

OR showed a current marijuana usage - any use in the past 30 days - of 21 percent for 11 graders earlier this year, compared with 22 percent last year, state da...

Bigg Boss Cancels The Captaincy Task, No Captain Next Week

She tells him that he has to forget everything after watching. Vikas and Arshi tried to lighten the mood of Shilpa and she came out. Indeed a heartbreaking on...

HRT could lower glaucoma risk

Researchers analysed data from 2005-2006 and looked at eye health in 1,678 people over the age of 40. Among the 1678 participants who had full eye test results,...

Does the Man Flu Exists?

The term is commonly used in the United Kingdom, Ireland, and in other cultures as well. Using medical databases such as PubMed/Medline and Cochrane, Dr.Sue r...

The World Generated 4500 Eiffel Towers' Worth Of Electronic Waste Last Year

The report puts the value of the raw materials in that 45 million tons of e-waste at about $55 billion ($9 billion from smartphones alone), but most of that was...

British surgeon caught burning initials onto the livers of two patients

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Baby survives after being born with heart outside her body

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Audubon's Christmas Bird Count Underway

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Malaysia growth forecast for 2017 revised up - ADB

The regional lender in its December Asian Development Outlook Supplement now expects the country's gross domestic product ( GDP ) growth to average 6.7% this ye...

Scientists develop plants that glow

A team of engineers from Massachusetts Institute of Technology ( MIT ) led by scholar Seon-Yeong Kwak has made a critical first breakthrough in their attempt to...

Claude Puel comments on chances of Leicester City keeping Riyad Mahrez

Puel was sacked by Southampton in the offseason, despite taking the team to a League Cup final and an eight-place finish in the league. But Puel came under ...

Miracle baby with heart outside body delivered safely

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Flu vaccination can be only 10-percent effective, study says

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Bermuda Fire & Rescue Christmas Safety Tips

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Egyptian singer gets 2 years jail for racy music video

The court found that the now-deleted video clip " I have Issues " was "indecent" and "incited debauchery", the BBC reports. An Egyptian court jailed a pop...

Met Éireann issues ANOTHER status yellow weather warning for the entire country

A Status Yellow Wind Warning is also in place for the west with southwest winds veering west to northwest with mean speeds of 45 to 65km/h will gust up to 85km/...