(Reuters Health) - Feminine hygiene products for vaginal douching may expose users to potentially harmful chemicals known as phthalates, a small study suggests.
BAMAKO (Reuters) - Police in Mali have detained about 20 suspected Islamist militants in recent days, including at least two French citizens and the organiser of an attack a restaurant in Bamako in March, security sources said on Tuesday.
The U.S. Department of Justice took action on Tuesday to seize $12.5 million in California property and assets from a businesswoman who is at the heart of a massive corruption scandal in the Philippines.
Penn State’s Anthony Zettel was named to the watch list for the Rotary Lombardi Award, given annually to the nation’s top lineman or linebacker.
Читать дальше...Calling it an issue America can't afford to ignore, President Barack Obama laid out an expansive vision Tuesday for fixing the criminal justice system by focusing on communities, courtrooms and cellblocks. He announced...
Greece's left-wing government launched a frantic 24-hour effort late Tuesday to push more austerity measures through Parliament and meet demands from European creditors as it faced down mounting anger at home.
The latest on Greece's financial crisis (all times local):
SYDNEY (Reuters) - Shane Watson has been dropped from the Australia team for this week's second Ashes test against England and will be replaced by fellow all-rounder Mitchell Marsh, the Sydney Morning Herald reported on Wednesday.
SYDNEY, July 15 (Reuters) - Shane Watson has been dropped from the Australia team for this week's second Ashes test against England and will be replaced by fellow all-rounder Mitchell Marsh, the Sydney Morning Herald reported on Wednesday.
A former United States Air Force Colonel claims he has obtained additional evidence that an alien UFO landed near an American air force base in Suffolk in 1980.
ABOARD AIR FORCE ONE, July 14 (Reuters) - President Barack Obama will hold a news conference on Wednesday to answer questions about the nuclear agreement the United States and other world powers recently reached with Iran.
Magdelena Luczak, who was convicted of murdering her four-year-old son Daniel Pelka, has died in prison.
LONDON (Reuters) - The British government will publish plans on Wednesday to tighten strike laws to make it harder to disrupt key public services, setting itself up for a clash with trade unions.
LONDON (Reuters) - Britain should steer clear of using deep injection wells in shale oil and gas "fracking" and take extra steps to reduce the technique's environmental and health effects, an industry-funded task force examining the sector said on Wednesday.
It was pretty clear tight end Mike Gesicki was feeling good at Saturday’s Lift for Life charity event at the Penn State Lacrosse Field.
Читать дальше...WASHINGTON, July 14 (Reuters) - Within hours of the announcement of an Iran nuclear deal early on Tuesday, lawyers around Washington were fielding calls from U.S. corporate clients eager to know what the 159-page deal would mean for their business prospects.
(Reuters) - Celgene Corp said on Tuesday it would buy Receptos Inc for $7.2 billion in a move that will give the U.S. biotechnology company a potential multibillion-dollar drug in late stage development for inflammatory bowel disease and multiple sclerosis.
(Reuters) - Celgene Corp said on Tuesday it would buy Receptos Inc for $7.2 billion in a move that will give the U.S. biotechnology company a potential multibillion-dollar drug in late stage development for inflammatory bowel disease and multiple sclerosis.
NEW ORLEANS, July 14 (Reuters) - Signal International will pay $20 million to settle lawsuits alleging fraud and labor trafficking by the Alabama oil rig repair company, which brought hundreds of Indian men to work on the Gulf Coast after Hurricane Katrina, attorneys for the plaintiffs said on Tuesday.
An English Defence League (EDL) supporter got into a bizarre and very public Facebook spat with his 12-year-old niece after she called out his views on Islam, politicians and a local garage.
NEW YORK (Reuters) - The U.S. Open leapfrogged Wimbledon as the richest grand slam event in tennis as the United States Tennis Association announced on Tuesday a 10.5 percent prize money increase for next month's championship.
LONDON (Reuters) - British pensioners have withdrawn more than 1.8 billion pounds ($2.8 billion) from their retirement pot in the two months since the government gave them the freedom to spend it on whatever they wished, the UK insurance trade body said.
Raheem Sterling has left Liverpool at the end of one of the most poisonous transfer sagas in history with a final conciliatory gesture - thanking Brendan Rodgers for helping to develop his career.
Mhairi Black, the youngest MP in the Commons, has used her maiden speech in the chamber to launch a scathing attack on the Conservative Government and present an olive branch to the Labour Party.
LONDON, July 15 (Reuters) - British pensioners have withdrawn more than 1.8 billion pounds ($2.8 bln) from their retirement pot in the two months since the government gave them the freedom to spend it on whatever they wished, the UK insurance trade body said.
