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Madonna arrives at the Venice airport during the 68th Venice Film Festival

Madonna, Polanski Films Vie for Venice Limelight

The Venice film festival promises a pop superstar and a whiff of scandal Thursday, with Madonna presenting her second feature and Roman Polanski notable by his absence at the world premiere of his new picture.

U.S. Newborn Death Rate Trails Behind 40 Other Nations

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The United States could be worse than 40 other countries when it comes to infant mortality. New research done by the World Health Organization (WHO) shows that babies under four weeks old account for 41 percent of child deaths worldwide.
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Oil Prices: The U.S. Economy?s Albatross

Institutional investors, turned off by a slow-growth economy that?s led to low-return stocks, piled in to oil, driving up its price, worsening the economic conditions that led them to invest in oil in the first place.
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Swimming-World championship medallists

Collated medallists after the eighth day of pool competition on day 16 of the world swimming championships in Shanghai on Sunday (* indicates medal winners on Sunday):
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Polish firm sold fertilizer to Norway bomber

A Polish company sold chemical fertilizer to Norwegian bomber and gunman Anders Behring Breivik but the transaction was entirely legal and police have made no arrests, the Polish internal security agency said Monday.
A Common Parasite May be Linked to Brain Cancers

Growing Fear in U.S. Over Alzheimer’s Disease [VIDEOS]

The Harvard School of Public Health and Alzheimer Europe conducted a telephone survey of 2,678 people who were at least 18 years of age across the U.S. and Europe, and they found that about 25 percent of responders feared getting the disease.
A Common Parasite May be Linked to Brain Cancers

Fear of Alzheimer's on the Rise: Study

Alzheimer's disease, a form of dementia that becomes progressively worse over time, is the second-most feared disease, said U.S. and European researches Wednesday. The most feared disease?

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