Report: Death rates from cancer still inching down

WASHINGTON (AP) — Death rates from cancer are continuing to inch down, researchers reported Monday.Now the question is how to hold onto those gains, and do even better, even as the population gets older and fatter, both risks for developing cancer."There has been clear progress," said Dr. Otis Brawley of the American Cancer Society, which compiled the annual cancer report with government and cancer...

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Accused Shooter Was 'Relaxed' After Massacre

Two veteran police officers broke down on the stand today during a preliminary hearing for accused movie theater gunman James Holmes, with one officer choking up when he described finding the body of a 6-year-old girl inside the theater.Sgt. Gerald Jonsgaard needed a moment to compose himself as he described finding the little girl, Veronica Moser Sullivan, in the blood splattered...

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Five accused in India rape case charged in court

NEW DELHI (Reuters) - Five men accused of raping and murdering an Indian student were read the charges in a near-empty courtroom on Monday after the judge cleared out lawyers for bickering over whether the men deserved a defense. The 23-year-old physiotherapy student died two weeks after being gang-raped and beaten on a moving bus in New Delhi, then thrown bleeding onto the street. Protests...

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Israel commentators unfazed by Hagel nomination

JERUSALEM: Israeli commentators played down the impact on relations with the United States of Monday's nomination as Pentagon chief of Republican former senator Chuck Hagel, criticised by heavyweights in his own party for being anti-Israel."Barack Obama did not choose Chuck Hagel because of his views on Israel and the president will not base his Israel policy on the views of Chuck Hagel",...

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Trains to fog-hit Delhi running up to 2 days late

NEW DELHI: Sudhir Kumar was to appear for a job interview in Delhi on Monday. To make sure he arrived well in time, the resident of Bhagalpur in Bihar had booked himself in a train that was to reach Delhi on Saturday. But the Bhagalpur Garib Rath that he boarded had not arrived in Delhi till Monday morning. The railway website said the train was 48 hours behind schedule.Like Kumar, the schedules...

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Organ donations fall in Germany after scandal

BERLIN (AP) — Organ donations have dropped sharply in Germany following a scandal over alleged corruption at several transplant clinics.The German Foundation for Organ Transplantation says the number of organs donated fell almost 13 percent to 3,917 last year, the lowest figure in a decade.Several German clinics are being investigated over allegations that doctors manipulated waiting lists to help...

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GOP Leader McConnell: 'Tax Issue Is Finished'

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Assad "peace plan" greeted with scorn by foes

BEIRUT (Reuters) - Syrian President Bashar al-Assad rejected peace talks with his enemies on Sunday in a defiant speech that his opponents described as a renewed declaration of war. Although the speech was billed as the unveiling of a new peace plan, Assad offered no concessions and even appeared to harden many of his positions. He rallied Syrians for "a war to defend the nation" and...

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Global regulator eases liquidity rules for banks

BASEL: The world's top banking regulatory body on Sunday eased the first global liquidity rules scheduled to start applying to banks in 2015 and aimed at improving their ability to survive financial crises.The Basel Committee on Banking Supervision said at a press conference that it had widened the definition of the easy-to-sell assets that banks will have to hold to survive periods of...

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Telangana decision awaits 'nudge' from Rahul Gandhi

HYDERABAD: With the January 28 self-imposed deadline for the Centre to decide on Telangana looming, all attention is on Congress general secretary Rahul Gandhi, who is supposed to come back to Delhi on Monday from a foreign tour. Rahul Gandhi is expected to nudge the decision making process on Tuesday. Sources in the Congress said that CM N Kiran Kumar Reddy and PCC chief Botsa Satyanarayana were...

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