10:09 GMT By NewsCore MUNSTER, Germany — A strain of E. coli bacteria that killed 39 people in Germany, and sickened others in Europe and North America, was characterized by a lethal ability to stick to the surface of intestinal walls. According to a study published Thursday in The Lancet medical journal, a team led…
By NewsCore 01 Jul 11|1159GMT LIMERICK, Ireland — A pet store worker suffering from a rare brain disease she claims to have contracted from a parrot was granted a record settlement by Ireland’s High Court, the Irish Times reported Friday. Patricia Ingle, aged 22 and from Limerick, was awarded an upfront payment of €3 million…
City University London – International Reporting, June 2011 A leaked cable from the Halifax consulate, released by the whistle-blowing site Wikileaks, says although uranium mining would bring economical benefits to Atlantic Canada, the region’s devoted anti-uranium mining campaigners make it a political impossibility. The cable, released in May 2008, says mounting fuel prices and an…
By Dalia Lourenço Photojournalist Dimitri Koshcheev stops to take pictures of people raking leaves in a park on Nevsky Prospekt, the main avenue in St. Petersburg, Russia. No one cares. When he carried his camera in the same city during communist times, people would often approach him, suspecting he was a spy. Russian photographers have…
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