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An Australian study has found that vaccines to protect against HPV virus, which causes cervical cancer, are working successfully after a drop in high-grade cervical abnormalities was seen.

People who cook with olive oil are 41 percent less likely to suffer a stroke than those who never eat it, say experts.Older people will live longer if they eat lots of it, researchers say.

CAIRO:  Ayman al-Zawahiri, the Egyptian surgeon-turned-jihadist ideologue, has been appointed the new chief of al-Qaeda to succeed the group’s slain leader Osama bin Laden, according to a statement posted on militant websites.

TEHRAN: Iran plans to send a live monkey into space in the summer, the country’s top space official said after the launch of the Rassad-1 satellite, state television reported on its website on Thursday.

A mist inhaler used to improve breathing in people with lung diseases including chronic bronchitis and emphysema may increase their risk of dying by 52 per cent, US and British researchers said.

Researchers from Singapore and China are conducting a research aimed at using different technologies to completely capture and convert carbon dioxide in industrial emissions into energy, local daily Lianhe Zaobao reported today.

TOKYO: Japan raises spectre of Fukushima ‘melt-through’. Officials in Japan says they will hand out radiation readers to more than 30,000 children in the wake of the meltdown in three of the six reactors at the Fukushima nuclear power plant.

COLOMBO: Passenger ferry services recommenced today between Sri Lanka and India after a gap of 28 years, snapped due to ethnic conflict on the island.

ROME:  A trouncing in referendums that have wiped out Italy’s plans to return to nuclear power after a shock local election defeat mean the Italian Prime Minister, Mr Silvio Berlusconi has lost his magic, Italian newspapers said on Tuesday.

Hypnotising women undergoing breast cancer surgery could speed their recovery and reduce the odds of the disease returning, experts believe.