CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — Queen Elizabeth II has expressed admiration for people who showed courage during a "difficult year" of heavy flooding in Australian towns and a devastating earthquake in New Zealand's second largest city.
The 85-year-old British monarch was speaking Friday at a reception at Parliament House in the capital, Canberra, during her 16th visit to Australia …
Dieters, doctors and investors get their first extensive look at the first of a trio of new weight loss drugs this week. The hope is that the new drugs can succeed where many others have failed: delivering significant weight loss without risky side effects.
With U.S. obesity rates nearing 35 percent of the adult population, expectations are high for the first new prescription drug therapies to emerge in more than a decade. Even a modestly effective drug has blockbuster potential.
None of the three medicines represents a breakthrough in research. Drugmakers have made little headway in understanding and treating the causes of overeating. Two of the drugs …
BY JANICE MONTI-BELKAOUI AND AHMED RIAHI-BELKAOUI
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This publication explores the concept of fairness, and its place in the practice of accounting. The conventional nature of the concept of fairness, the authors contend, is fairness in presentation, connoting an …
U.S. President George W. Bush rejected proposed Democratic changes to his prized AIDS relief program, issuing a challenge Sunday to Congress to "stop the squabbling" and renew it.
Tanzanian leader Jakaya Kikwete made an impassioned appeal for the same thing, saying thousands in his country would orphan their children if U.S. lawmakers do not act.
There is broad support in the Democratic-controlled Congress for the anti-AIDS spending that has become the largest-ever international health initiative devoted to one disease, so there is not much danger of failing to continue it.
But with the program expiring this year, a political and …
Peru's judicial system says the Supreme Court has ratified a 25-year prison sentence for ex-President Alberto Fujimori.
The sentence was imposed in April for the death squad killing of 25 people and the kidnappings of a businessman and journalist during Fujimori's presidency from 1990 to 2000.
The courts published the …
Some people throw pennies at them, others carry a sharpinstrument to scrape them as they move into the crosswalk. But mostof us simply stand on the curb and burn. The object of all this fury- cars whose drivers treat red lights as if they were stop signs.
I was hit by a cab (yes, that's like saying you were bitten by adog). On the Near North Side, have cabbies considered adopting themotto, "We never yield"?
During the same week, on the Far North Side, a friend was wingedby a driver who couldn't tell his left hand from his right. Thisgraduate of a driver's ed correspondence school turned left on a redlight into a two-way street leaving my friend on the ground …
NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — The October al-Qaida video shows a light-skinned man handing out food to families displaced by famine in Somalia. But the masked man is not Somali, or even African — he's a Wisconsin native who grew up in San Diego.
A handful of young Muslims from the U.S. are taking high-visibility propaganda and operational roles inside an al-Qaida-linked insurgent force in Somalia known as al-Shabab. While most are from Minnesota, which has the largest Somali population in the nation, al-Shabab members include a Californian and an Alabaman with no ancestral ties to Somalia.
"They are being deployed in roles that appear to be shrewdly calculated to raise al-Shabab's …
