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A researcher on a short trip to a foreign country, with little money, but a digital camera in hand has devised a novel approach to digitizing foreign archives that could speed up research.

The office building, designated "Bassangkajen," will be built in seven stories and comprise a total of 19,000 square meters in two stages.

A Swedish appeals court has started hearing arguments in the case of a Chilean tenor accused of raping an 18-year-old nanny and molesting a minor.

WASHINGTON - Construction spending took a bigger-than-expected tumble in July as housing activity dropped to the lowest level in seven years and nonresidential activity fell for the first time in seven months.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Exercise may reverse some damage that radiation does to the brain, Swedish researchers reported on Tuesday in a study that offers a way to help childhood cancer survivors.

Tests on mice showed that those encouraged to exercise had more immature cells known as stem cells in their brains, and that these cells were more likely to develop into neurons, brain cells that do the bulk of the work in the brain.

The findings, published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, may provide ways to help pediatric brain cancer survivors who often have learning, memory and attention problems.

A 22-year-old man who admitted that his accuser said no to having sex with him was acquitted of rape charges by a court in western Sweden.

Volvo Cars has appointed Stephen Odell as its new president and chief executive officer, effective from Oct.

London: Men's tendency to be unfaithful may be influenced by their genes, suggests a new research.

Older age among fathers may be associated with an increased risk for bipolar disorder in their offspring, according to a report in the September issue of Archives of General Psychiatry , one of the ...

Christine Schurrer has appealed last week's district court decision to forgo a retrial in the Arboga murder case following accusations that lay judges were biased.

Ericsson has signed the largest single contract in Vietnam, amounting to USD 450 million, to develop and modernize Hanoi Telecom's nationwide mobile network.

Sixty thousand years ago, a small group of African men and women took to the Red Sea in tiny boats and crossed the Mandab Strait to Asia.

HIDDEN within the positive statistic showing a 5 percent rise in the number of 2008 high school students taking the SAT is a disturbing trend.

Real median household income in the United States climbed 1.3 percent between 2006 and 2007, reaching $50,233, according to a report released today by the U.S. Census Bureau.

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KUWAIT CITY, Aug 27 : Acting on a tip-off and armed with a search and arrest warrant securitymen recently raided a number of 'brothels' in Jleeb Al-Shuyoukh and arrested eight Asian prostitutes and a ...

In their golden years, men and women who remain free of dementia will nonetheless undergo an accelerated drop in key mental skills as much as 15 years before their death, a new study reveals.

LONDON - The rapid deterioration of our mental abilities as we age begins far earlier than scientists had suspected, Swedish researchers said on Wednesday.Simple tests of perceptual speed, ...

Officials with a Stockholm, Sweden, airport said a woman took a ride on a baggage conveyor belt after mishearing instructions from personnel.

A 35-year-old convicted murderer who escaped on Sunday from a psychiatric clinic has been arrested in Norberg, a small town in western Sweden.