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Surgeon General aided traveler with 'medical emergency' during flight

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Former Premier League footballer Jlloyd Samuel dies in auto crash

They said: "Jlloyd was a loving son, father, husband and brother". Samuel, who also won two worldwide caps for Trinidad and Tobago, was involved in a collisio...

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Fayemi declares incumbent governor, Fayose "enemy of Ekiti state"

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IPL 2018, KKR vs RR: Hosts win toss, elects field

After Rajasthan Royals registered a win against the Mumbai Indians, CSK was straight sent to the playoffs. Sunrisers Hyderabad and Chennai Super Kings have ...

National Weather Service warns of hail, flood risks Monday in Will County

You can see live weather updates via the National Weather Service and other Twitter sources below. The flash flooding "may continue to worsen", the weather se...

Maintaining daily rhythm is important for mental health, study suggests

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AU vows efforts to mitigate new Ebola outbreak in DRC

A new experimental vaccine has been shown to be highly effective, though quantities are now limited. According to the World Health Organisation on Monday, a...

Manchester United, Liverpool 'invited to new Club World Cup'

The new competition would see the scrapping of the current Club World Cup, held annually in December, along with the Confederations Cup which is held in the sum...

Mourners line streets of Liverpool to say farewell to Alfie Evans

Evans was born on May 9, 2016, and was first taken to hospital in December of that year after suffering seizures. The little boy, from Bootle in Merseyside, d...

Malaysia's Mahathir Vows to Investigate Toppled Government

Mahathir, 92 was sworn in as the leader on Thursday, making him the world's oldest democratically elected leader. A four-party alliance driven by Mahathir and...

Rare two-headed deer found in forest

The two-headed fawn was found by a mushroom hunter in Minnesota in May 2016. "It is unbelievable and incredibly rare". Seeing such a weird appearance, the man...

Mental Health Awareness Week: Graduates fear telling employers about issues

Pirate FM is asking for an extra minute of your time for mental health. "The first step is always letting your GP know and getting into the NHS system". Princ...

WOW Air Is Launching $199 Flights From the USA to India

Wow's new route is available from New York City (Newark), Boston, Baltimore, Chicago, Pittsburgh, Detroit, San Francisco, Los Angeles, and St. Louis, and those ...

United Nations chief to meet Trump after USA nuclear deal exit

In June, US President Donald Trump and North Korea's Leader, Kim Jong-Un will meet in Singapore for the first such high level talks since the end of the Kore...

#WorldCupWith360nobs: Nigerian Coach Announces 30-Man Provisional Squad For Russia 2018

And Rohr stuck to his word, with only Amkar Perm left-back, Brian Idowu, Lokomotiv Plovdiv big defender , Stephen Eze, and Joel Obi, the other players included...

World Health Organization calls for trans fats to be eliminated within five years

WHO aims to eliminate the use of trans fats world wide by 2023 and released REPLACE, a step-by-step guide for the elimination of industrially-produced trans-fat...

Reported STDs Reach Record High in California

That latter stat is particularly troubling to public health officials given the long-term dangers of untreated syphilis, which can cause brain damage. Symptoms ...

CISCE students confident of good results, stay calm before big day

The Indian Certificate of Secondary Education ICSE Examination for the year 2018 was conducted from February 26- March 2. THE Council for the Indian School ...

Tammany Parish School Board set to trim property tax rate

The proposed spending plan totals $19,005,267, which represents an increase over this year's budget of approximately $494,000 - or 2.67 percent. Residents acr...

Deal to purchase Carolina Panthers expected to be signed on Tuesday

The deal would have to be approved at the owners meetings in Atlanta in May. Tepper, who is the founder of Appaloosa Management, is worth an estimated $11 bil...

United States scientists achieve world's first memory transplant

A group of scientist from the University of California (UCLA) have successfully transplanted memories from one snail to another. Once the snail had establishe...

Cure for the common cold? Incredible molecule shows real promise

They applied the drug to human lung cells in the lab and it worked within minutes! The drug is also hypothetically effective in dealing with polio and foot an...

Scientists Develop Common Cold Cure

It blocks a key protein in the body's cells that cold viruses normally hijack to self-replicate and spread. They applied the drug to human lung cells in the l...

United States offers to help rebuild North Korea economy

The talks, which are expected to last one day, are set to focus on North Korea's rapidly advancing nuclear and ballistic weapons programmes. Following the r...

BBC sees off Netflix as drama Peaky Blinders leads the pack

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Pregnant Cardi B Attacked Outside A Clothes Shop

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Pat Davis Drops The F-Bomb on the NRA [NSFW]

Since the ad aired Friday, Davis said he had been inundated with "belligerent, vulgar" messages from NRA supporters, as well as donations and messages from peop...

Lincolnshire child mental health referrals double

Overall, the number of referrals to CAMHS has steadily increased each year since 2014/15, reaching 34,757 in 2017/18 - the equivalent of 183 every school day in...

Get rid of trans fats, World Health Organization urges

The World Health Organisation (WHO) has released on Monday, an initiative called REPLACE that will provide guidance for all countries on how to remove artific...

World Health Organization reports new Ebola case in DR Congo

There is no specific treatment for the virus, and it can prove fatal in up to 90 percent of cases. The Democratic Republic of Congo and United Nations age...

More victims sickened from salmonella outbreak that led to massive egg recall

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has linked the outbreak to eggs from Rose Acre Farms and its production facility in Hyde County, North Carolina, which ...

Armenia's New Leader Pashinyan Meets Putin, Seeks Deeper Military Ties With Russia

House Intelligence Committee Chairman Devin Nunes (R-CA) hailed the May 8th parliamentary vote for Prime Minister, noting, "I am gratified by the peaceful trans...

Indigo bomb threat: Man upset with airline makes hoax call

An IndiGo employee, working at its customer care desk in Pune airport, was arrested by the Delhi Police for allegedly making a hoax bomb call, which affected it...