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South Korean President Lee Myung Bak said he has no objections to a potential meeting between US president-elect Barack Obama and North Korea leader Kim Jong Il.
He said in an interview with the Chosun Ilbo newspaper that appeared Tuesday that he would expect any such meeting would help to abolish North Korea's nuclear weapons...
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North Korea said Friday that it had begun work to restart its Yongbyon nuclear reactor because the United States had failed to keep promises it made in nuclear talks.
The reactor, which North Korea shut down last year as part of those talks, can supply plutonium that can be used to make nuclear bombs.
The restart of the reactor at...
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North Korea has conducted an engine ignition test for a long-range missile at a new launch site on its west coast, South Korean media reported Tuesday.
The test was presumably for the engine of the Taepodong-2 missile, which has a range of 6,700 kilometres, or an improved version of the same missile, capable of flying more than 10,000...
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World champions Italy made a strong start to the men's Olympic tournament Thursday, comfortably overcoming Honduras 3- 0 in their Group D opener while Brazil needed a late goal from Hernanes to overcome Belgium in Group C.
Sebastian Giovinco put the Azzurri in front on 41 minutes in Qinhuangdao while Giuseppe Rossi made it 2-0 on the...
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6.8 magnitude earthquake stroke Japan on Thursday, causing injuries on 103 people and destroying 31 buildings. According to the U.S. Geological Survey, the earthquake shook north-central Japan. Its epicenter was in the east part of Honshu and began at about 12:26 a.m. (10:26 a.m. ET).It lasted for nearly 40 seconds, but it was enough to...
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 A China Airlines plane burst into flames soon after it
landed at Naha airport, in Okinawa, Japan, a popular beach resort. All the 157
passengers on board managed to get off the plane through the emergency exit in
time so nobody was severely hurt. The members of the crew and the pilots made
their out, too.
The Boeing Co. 737-800 of...
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 The second largest city in Bangladesh, Chittagong has been hit by a series of merciless floods and landslides that took 119 lives, according to the latest figures released by the authorities Wednesday.Search operations for people trapped under the huge quantities of mud and stones continued for a fourth day, 21 killed people being found...
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 Huge waves hit the coasts of Indonesia and destroyed hundreds of buildings and boats, causing thousands of people to be evacuated, the media informed Saturday.Eleven provinces were affected by the tidal waves, but only material damage were reported, human casualties not being mentioned. The Sumatra, Java and Bali islands were the most...
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Hundreds of protesters took to the streets in Zambia's north-central Copperbelt region Thursday to demand the release of a local radio journalist who was arrested Wednesday for alleged incitement in a post-election programme.
The protesters, who chanted anti-government slogans, brought business in the town of Kitwe to a standstill,...
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The Electoral Commission of Zambia (ECZ) Thursday suspended the verification of votes cast in last week's disputed presidential election after supporters of new President Rupiah Banda and opposition leader Michael Sata traded punches.
State radio reported that a number of election workers got caught in the middle when fists started to...
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Three Somali pirates were shot dead in an apparent argument with their
mates aboard a hijacked Ukrainian cargo ship carrying tanks, the
Itar-Tass news agency reported on Tuesday.
None of the 20 crew being held hostage on the freighter Faina were
injured in the exchange of fire stemming from a alleged dispute between
the pirates,...
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Three Somali pirates were shot dead in an apparent argument
with their mates aboard a hijacked Ukrainian cargo ship carrying tanks, the
Itar-Tass news agency reported on Tuesday.
None of the 20 crew being held hostage on the freighter Faina were injured in
the exchange of fire stemming from a alleged dispute between the...
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As the dust began to settle Friday on the biggest shake-up in South African politics since the end of apartheid politicians, analysts and ordinary citizens were mostly in agreement on two things.
The first was that there was not, and never had been a crisis. The second was that the ruling ANC really had the country's interest at...
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The body of late Zambian president Levy Mwanawasa arrived back home from Paris Saturday in a gold coffin draped in a Zambian flag to a sombre ceremony at Lusaka International Airport.
The plane touched down in overcast conditions at 9 am (0800 GMT) to a 21-gun salute and a fly-past by Zambia Air Force jets.
The mood of sorrow that...
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The Zambian government announced Friday that the country's late president Levy Mwanawasa would be buried on September 3 after his body had been taken around the country for public viewing.
The date had been chosen to coincide with Mwanawasa's birthday, secretary to the cabinet Dr Joshua Kanganja said.
Mwanawasa would have turned 60...
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 The war crimes trials went all the way to Sierra Leone, as the UN-backed Special Court for Sierra Leone found three former leaders of a rebel group guilty of grave accusations like murder, rape and the use of children as soldiers.The ruling was passed down Wednesday and represents a break through for the west African nation, who has been...
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 The Three Stooges trio was something amazing for the early 1930s. They were an American comedy act best known for their many short subject movies. Commonly known as “Larry, Moe and Curly,” their group was originally formed by Moe Howard, Shemp Howard and Larry Fine. Shemp was replaced by brother Curly Howard in 1933. But Shemp came back...
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 After earning huge success with the “Spider-Man” trilogy,
Sam Raimi was determined to return to his roots and focus on a new horror
movie.
Given the fact that the present cinematographic craze
definitely doesn’t include the genre, a strategic resource might have been
someone in the cast to draw attention on the new production....
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 Movie fans that loved “Transformers” will be pleased to
discover that Hasbro and Universal Pictures stroke a six-year deal to initiate
at least another four feature movies based on Hasbro’s famous game and toy brands.
The range of offers among which they have the possibility to
choose from will be between Monopoly, Ouija, Clue,...
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 Deprivation and incarceration seem to have become the
favorite themes to tackle in his movies, Julian Schnabel making no exemption
with his third one.
“Basquiat” depicts imprisonment
engendered by addiction and incapability of integrating into a large group, “Before
Night Falls” tells the story of a Cuban poet who is both...
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 Universal Pictures and Imagine Entertainment have a Hugh Hefner biopic in the works, titled "Playboy." Variety reports that Brett Ratner is set to direct, while Brian Grazer is producing and John Hoffman is writing the screenplay.Brian Grazer, who won the best picture Academy Award for "A Beautiful Mind," acquired the...
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Election day finally arrived Tuesday for the record throngs of US voters planning to cast their presidential ballots for either Democrat Barack Obama or Republican John McCain.
Obama held a significant lead in opinion polls as state officials braced for an unprecedented turnout and massive lines at polling places in an election...
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Former civil rights lawyer Revius Ortique Jr., who became the first black
justice on the Louisiana Supreme Court, died Sunday. He was 84.
It appears that Ortique died in Baton
Rouge from complications with a stroke he suffered
June 14, current Justice Kitty Kimball told the Associated Press.
“I think he was one of the finest...
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 Senator Edward Kennedy, a Massachusetts Democrat and patriarch of an American political dynasty, was hospitalized in Boston on Saturday after suffering a seizure at his Cape Cod vacation home.The 76-year-old senior senator from Massachusetts was stricken at the family compound in Hyannis, Mass. He was taken to the Cape Code hospital at...
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Ted Key, the magazine cartoonist who created maid Hazel in
the 1940s, died. He was 95. Key was diagnosed with bladder cancer in late 2006
and suffered a stroke in September. He died Saturday at his home in Tredyffrin Township, Pa.,
his son Peter said, according to the Associated Press.
The bossy yet lovable maid “Hazel” was...
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 The northeastern Nevada town Wells was rocked by a powerful earthquake
Thursday at 6:16 a.m. according to The Associated Press. The 6.0 magnitude
earthquake was felt from northern Idaho and Utah to Southern California.
Despite people’s shock no serious injuries were registered.
However, there were great damages in Nevada. According...
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 Nearly one month after plunging 47 floors to the ground, a window
washer has spoken for the first time in a hospital bed, startling his
wife who admonished him not to touch the nurses, news reports said
Friday.
The small platform supporting Alcides Moreno, 37, and his brother
Edgar broke loose and the two plunged into a free fall...
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 Merl Saunders had long-term collaborations with Jerry Garcia and the Grateful Dead band. He was a keyboardist born in San Mateo, California. Saunders became well-known in 1970 when he started his collaboration with Garcia and his bands, The Legion of Mary and Reconstruction. After that, he used to lead his own band called Merl Saunders...
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 Levi Stubbs Jr., lead singer for Four Tops, died at the age of 72. He had cancer and ended the fight with it at his home in Detroit. What made him give up his music and concerts was a stroke he suffered in 2000 and obliged him to remain inside the house. He left behind him his wife, Clineice, 48, and his five children to take care of his...
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Amy Winehouse just won’t stop from fooling around with drugs and all kind of spicy dresses, make-up and more above, life mistakes! After she spent a night in a London hospital on Monday, she was released a day after. It seems like her chronic disease is trouble!Her spokesman, Chris Goodman, reported for the New York Times that Amy...
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 Florida honored late rock’n’roller Bo Diddley Saturady with a funeral followed by a concert and a festival celebration, the Gainesville (Fla.) Sun said. Family, friends and fans of music legend Bo Diddley, considered a key figure in the transition from blues to rock and roll, gathered at Gainesville, Fla., for his funeral.A gospel band...
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 The famous Neverland Ranch owned by Michael Jackson remains
in his property, at least for the moment.
The ranch that used to be a paradise for children was in
jeopardy, as a public auction was scheduled to take place the next week due to
the fact that Michael Jackson went into default on the $24.5 million he owes on
the property....
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 The death of rapper Pimp C, who was found dead in December
in his hotel room, was accidental, as the Los
Angeles coroner office announced.
Captain Ed Winter of the Los Angeles County coroner's
office revealed on Monday that Promethazine/Codeine syrup and
sleep apnea were the main factors that generated the rapper’s death....
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 Roger M. King, executive of CBS and King World Productions,
the one who syndicated popular shows such shows like “The Oprah Winfrey Show,”
died on Saturday at the age of 63.
King suffered a stroke on Friday at his home in Boca Raton, Fla.
and passed away the next day in hospital, according to Chris Ender, a CBS
spokesman....
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 As announced on her blog, blogs1.marthastewart.com/martha/, Martha
Steward’s Polish American mother, Martha Kostyra passed away at the age of 93.
The one that was called “Big Martha” despite her little stature
died on Friday at Norwalk Hospital in Connecticut,
as Kevin Lesko of Lesko and Polke Funeral Home in Fairfield Center,...
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 Being dropped from a $1.7 million photo shoot isn’t precisely a good thing but the reason you’re dropped for, means definitely war. The father of Anna Nicole Smith’s baby was reportedly ditched by the magazine after discovering potential proof Birkhead "tricked us all" when he won the paternity lawsuit following Smith’s death...
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 Legendary singer, songwriter and guitarist Bo Diddley suffered a stroke in Iowa that led to his hospitalization.
The 78-year-old musician was still active, giving performances across the US. A spokesperson said Wednesday that Diddley is in intensive care after suffering a stroke in western Iowa.
She also said the tests done so far...
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North Korea's leader Kim Yong Il suffered a stroke but was recovering and still in charge of the country, a South Korean lawmaker said Wednesday, citing information from the country's intelligence service.
"There is no power vacuum in Pyongyang," opposition lawmaker Won Hye Young told journalists in Seoul after parliament...
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The number of U.S. citizens with high blood
pressure is increasing, mainly due to growing rates of obesity, researchers at
the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute said.
The findings were based on a study conducted by collecting
data from an estimated 30,000 people who participated in the National Nealth
and Nutrition...
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 The American Medical Association, the US most important physicians’ organization, offered its apology on Thursday for a history of discrimination against African American doctors. Membership was rejected to many black physicians for a long period of time. The excuses came from the work of an independent group of specialists assigned in...
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The Courier-Journal reported that this weekend, two airlines
refused to fly a 5-year-old girl and her mother, invoking the reason that her
condition was too instable to be on board. The little Kentucky
girl suffers from a fatal rare disease and needed to receive stem cell
treatments at a hospital in Beijing.
Hailey Goranflo and...
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 NBC newsman Tim Russert, 58, died Friday
while recording a segment for the Sunday edition of “Meet the Press.” His death
shows that medicine can’t always prevent the risk of sudden death. It raised
questions on the amount of stress his work put on him and the increased heart
attack risk he was exposed to.
Dr. Randall Zusman of...
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 People with high blood pressure were advised by the American
Heart Association to have their own home monitor and to do regular pressure
checks. It was estimated that 72 million Americans suffer from this affection
and only a third of them have it under control.
An individual is considered hypertensive when his pressure
reaches...
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 “Saturday Night Live” fans shouldn’t be too disappointed for
the fact that Janet Jackson canceled her appearance on the show.
Another great name is scheduled to deliver a gig on “SNL,”
an artist that has been eagerly awaited to return on the show for ten years. We
are talking now, obviously, about Mariah Carey.
Janet Jackson...
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 Cold-shooting Ray Allen finally found his stroke and the Boston Celtics got back to their winning ways.
Allen scored 26 of his 35 points in the second half, and the
Celtics snapped their season-high two-game losing streak with a 100-90
victory over the visiting Portland Trail Blazers on Wednesday night.
In his last five games,...
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Pope Benedict XVI ended his four-day visit to France on Monday with a mass for the sick in the southern pilgrimage site of Lourdes.
Thousands of ill people from all over the world, many of them in wheelchairs or on stretchers, took part in the mass in the hope of a miraculous cure or simply morale.
"Many cures occur...
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French President Nicolas Sarkozy praised recently deceased Zambian President Levy Mwanawasa, saying his death was "a great loss for the people of Zambia."
The 59-year-old Mwanawasa, who died in Paris following a stroke earlier this year, was a man with political courage, Sarkozy said.
His death is "a great loss for...
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Greece's emergency services on Monday braced
themselves for a week of power cuts, forest fires and heart-related
ailments as temperatures were expected to rise above 40 degrees
Celsius.
Medical services and hospitals have been placed on alert for a
possible influx of patients suffering from heat stroke and other
heat-induced...
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 Baltic leaders continued on Friday to celebrate joining the Schengen
common European visa zone following its midnight expansion to include
nine new members.
"The date, December 21, 2007 ... put an end to talks about new and
old Europe," said Estonian President Toomas Hendrik Ilves during a
visit to the southern Estonian...
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 Being married to a smoker can considerably increase your risk of stroke, even if you’re a non-smoker, suggests a recent study carried out by a team at Harvard University and published in the newest issue of American Journal of Preventive Medicine.It is almost unanimously known the fact that smokers are far more likely to suffer stroke...
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 According to British researchers, the ozone may be the key linking high temperature and increased risk of death from heart disease or stroke.
The study, to be published in the Occupational and Environmental Medicine journal, indicated the higher the ozone level, the greater the risk a cardiovascular death that could be attributable...
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 A German study made on patients who had strokes showed that many of them had been treated with an anemia drug released by Johnson & Johnson, as federal health official reported on Friday. The FDA now seeks answers for the higher death rates among those patients. The Food and Drug Administration said that 16% of the patients who were...
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 A new research study reports that women who took estrogen
and progestin hormones to ease the menopause symptoms still had an increased
cancer risk after ending the therapy.
The study was developed by the Women’s Health Initiative and
involved more than 16,000 women who used the estrogen and progestin combination
drug,...
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 In an attempt to stop Merck & Co Inc's latest bid to
sell a cholesterol-lowering drug without a prescription, a U.S. advisory panel
urged the government on Thursday to reject the proposition.
The committee voted 10-2, with one abstention, against
recommending over-the-counter sales of Merck's cholesterol fighter Mevacor.
Most...
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 According to health officials, Takeda Pharmaceutical Co. planned
to launch print ads today, touting the safety of its diabetes drug Actos, just
days after the Food and Drug Administration slapped new safety warnings on
rival drug Avandia from GlaxoSmithKline PLC.
Full-page ads set to run in about 60 newspapers and in several
news...
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 Three Palestinian kids were killed in a nighttime attack on Wednesday
in the Beit Hanoun area of northern Gaza.
Israeli military said it launched tank shells at soldiers
who were trying to set up a rocket launcher in the area.
The three children were killed by shrapnel. Two boys Mahmoud
Ghazal age ten, Yehiya Ghazal age 12...
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 Tiger Woods won his fourth U.S. PGA Championship and 13th major title with a two shot victory on Sunday at the Southern Hills Country Club leaving his fellow countryman Woody Austin on the second place. South African Ernie Els ranked third. This was Woods’ 59th PGA Tour title as he became only the third player to win at least four PGA...
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 A new report released on Thursday in the American Heart
Association journal Stroke indicates that postmenopausal women who constantly
sleep 9 hours or more per night are more predisposed to cerebrovascular
accident risks.
The study was conducted on 93,000 women, aged from 50 to 79,
who live in 40 different locations in the United...
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 According to Dr. E. Steve Roach, chairman of the statement writing group and neurologist at Nationwide Children's Hospital in Columbus, Ohio, approximately 10 in every 100,000 children in U.S. will suffer a stroke anytime. In babies, the initial symptoms of stroke usually are seizures which involve only one arm or leg, said Roach in a...
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 In spite of the extensive attempts to persuade Americans to
lose weight, the number of U.S.
adults who are obese rose with approximately 2 percent between 2005 and 2007,
according to a new report.
The proportion of U.S. adults who are obese increased
from 23.9 percent in 2005 to 25.6 percent in 2007, the Centers for...
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 New research suggests that people with low levels
of so-called good cholesterol may be at higher risk for memory decline which is
the first sign for Alzheimer’s disease and other forms of dementia.
The study, published in the July 1 edition
of the American Heart Association’s journal Arteriosclerosis, Thrombosis and
Vascular...
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 A new study shows people with heart disease
and low levels of vitamin D in their blood have a great risk of dying from different
causes and particularly from cardiovascular disease. According to health
authorities, lack of vitamin D has been blamed for everything from weakened
bones to rickets, but now Harald Dobnig, M.D., of the...
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 Two recent studies point out that people with obstructive
sleep apnea should see a doctor and treat their disorder.
Sleep apnea is a frequent affection characterized by
temporary breathing interruptions during sleep, usually caused by an upper
airway obstruction. People with sleep apnea often snore loudly and gasp for air
while...
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A study published in Wednesday’s issue of PloS ONE points
out the difference of rates as regards mortality in well-educated individuals and
people who have finished less than high-school.
The findings reveal that the gap in overall death rates
between these two categories of Americans increased rapidly from 1993 to 2001....
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 Researchers from the National Institute of Drug
Abuse proved that consuming marijuana limbers up the chances to develop heart
diseases. It seems that smoking marijuana determines the body to produce a
greater quantity of a protein that increases levels of blood fats, which are
closely linked to heart attack and stroke. The study was...
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 According to a new US
study presented at an American
Academy of Neurology
meeting, heavy drinkers and smokers develop Alzheimer’s disease six to seven
years earlier than those who don’t smoke and drink. A second US study found
people with high cholesterol in their early 40s are one and a half time more
likely to develop...
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 A healthy diet rich in fruits and vegetables, whole grains,
low-fat milk, and plant-based protein instead of meat can save people from
heart attack and stroke.
Women who have healthy eating habits are 24 percent less
likely to have a heart attack and 18 percent less likely to have a stroke
compared with women who eat as a typical...
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 Good news for pet owners. A
research study found that having a cat can reduce stress in people’s lives, and
consequently lowers the risk of having a heart attack or stroke or developing a
heart disease.
The findings are based on a
10-year study, carried out by the researchers at the Stroke
Research Center
at the...
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 A new report carried out by the US Centers for Disease
Control and Prevention, found that most U. S. adults are not aware of the
heart attack warning signs, and that the differences in awareness are based on
race, geographical region and sex. The report shows that only 1 in 4 Americans
know the warning signs of a heart attack, and...
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 Sleep apnea is a very common sleep disorder. It
is characterized by pauses in breathing during sleep and it can be diagnosed
with a polysomnogram, which is an overnight sleep test.
Though common, sleep apnea seems to have hidden
until now a fatal secret: a recent study showed that sleep apnea represents a
risk factor for early...
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 A new research study states that
there might be a link between regular unintentional daytime dozing and the risk
of stroke in seniors.
The study looked at 2,153 adults
with an average age of 73. The researchers asked the subjects involved in the
two-year study to say how often they nod off during daytime activities such...
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 A new study brings good news to
those who had suffered a stroke: listening to music during the first weeks
after the stroke could help them recover faster, researchers say. Indeed, what
could be more relaxing than listening to your favorite pop or classical music?
Finnish researchers say that
listening to music for only a...
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 In a new scientific experiment, human
embryos that contain DNA from two women and one man have been created by
British scientists, who hope that this procedure might be used in the future to
create healthy embryos free of any inherited diseases, the Associated Press
reports.
The research, funded by the Muscular...
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 According to a Dutch study published on Wednesday, thirteen
percent of healthy adults were found to have some type of undiagnosed
abnormality in the brain.
The research, led by Meike Vernooij of the Erasmus MC
University Medical Center in Rotterdam,
is important because brain scans are becoming more common and more detailed,
and...
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 According to recent medical research released on Monday,
donated blood decreases in quality with every passing moment as it quickly
loses some of its life-saving properties as an important gas dissipates, thus
explaining why many patients fare poorly after blood transfusions.
Researchers at Duke
University Medical
Center in...
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