Saturday, October 2, 2010

Italian doctors implant permanent artificial heart

Italian doctors implant permanent artificial heart

Italian doctors implant permanent artificial heart

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Heart surgeons at Rome's Bambino Gesu Children's Hospital carried out the 10-hour breakthrough operation Thursday, implanting an artificial heart to be used on a permanent basis rather than a more common temporary artificial heart.


First look inside the proposed Islamic centre

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Visitors to the upper floors of the Muslim community centre planned for near Ground Zero in New York would walk through lofty spaces - for art exhibitions, for contemplation and prayer, for programmes on interreligious dialogue, for a 9/11 memorial - as sunlight streams through irregularly shaped windows between white crisscrossing beams.


Meet Mark Zuckerberg's most valuable friend

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Every Monday a bit before 10 a.m., Sheryl Sandberg, Facebook's chief operating officer, dashes off a quick e-mail to her boss, Mark Zuckerberg. "We have a routine," Ms. Sandberg says. "I e-mail, 'Coming in?' He replies, 'On my way.' "


Las Vegas in deepest economic rut since 1940s

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The nation's gambling capital is staggering under a confluence of economic forces that has sent Las Vegas into what officials describe as its deepest economic rut since casinos first began rising in the desert here in the 1940s.


PLO backs quitting peace talks over Israeli settlements

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The Palestinian leadership has said there would be no further peace talks with Israel as long as it continued settlement construction in the occupied territories. The decision by the Palestine Liberation Organisation (PLO) strengthened president Mahmud Abbas, who has threatened to walk out of US-backed talks relaunched a month ago over the recent resumption of building in the West Bank.


US to issue terrorism alert for travel to Europe

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The State Department plans to issue an alert on Sunday urging Americans traveling to Europe to be vigilant about possible terrorist attacks, an American official said Saturday. The decision to caution travelers comes as counterterrorism officials in Europe and the United States are assessing intelligence about possible plots originating in Pakistan and North Africa aimed at Britain, France and Germany.


Brazil Presidential polls today

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With only hours to go before presidential elections in Brazil, candidates were out campaigning throughout the country on Saturday. Green Party candidate Marina Silva greeted supporters in the streets of Rio de Janeiro in an attempt to push her candidacy into a runoff vote.


Militants kill top Islamic scholar in Pakistan

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Militants on Saturday shot dead prominent religious scholar and Swat Islamic University Vice-Chancellor Farooq Khan and his aide in Pakistan's troubled northwest, police and witnesses said.


Eighth Harry Potter book on the anvil?

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For the fans who mourned the end of boy wizard's adventures, author J K Rowling has hinted that 'Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows' may not be the end of the bespectacled hero.


Iran arrests spies aiming to derail atomic work

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Iran's intelligence minister said on Saturday that authorities had arrested several "nuclear spies" who were working to derail Tehran's nuclear programme through cyberspace.


US apologises for Syphilis program in Guatemala

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From 1946 to 1948, American public health doctors deliberately infected nearly 700 Guatemalans — prison inmates, mental patients and soldiers — with venereal diseases in what was meant as an effort to test the effectiveness of penicillin.


Over 40 killed in train collision in Indonesia

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A train crash in central Indonesia killed at least 43 people and injured dozens Saturday, many of them critically, officials and witnesses said. The toll was expected to rise with some bodies still trapped in the mangled wreckage.


Posted by Harshad at 11:21 PM

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