Gene test hope for personalised cancer therapy

NHS patients are offered personalized cancer treatment under a pilot project to conduct genetic testing on individual tumors.Cancer Research UK hope the project will be up to 6,000 cancer patients per year for a series of genetic defects to be analyzed.The...

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Pakistan rules out offensive against Punjab militants

Pakistani Interior Minister Rehman Malik has stressed that no plans for military action against militants in Punjab province.His remarks came hours after he told a parliamentary committee that "Punjabi Taliban" were entrenched in the south of Punjab.Malik...

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India's bureaucracy is 'the most stifling in the world'

A new report has confirmed what many had long suspected Indians - their country's bureaucratic system is one of the most oppressive in the world.The Hong Kong-based group, political and economic risk consultancy, studied more than 100 business executives...

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Emotion high as Turkey buries its Gaza flotilla dead

Emotions are running high in Turkey over the funerals of nine activists of Turkish or of Turkish origin, was killed in Israel raid on Gaza to help the fleet.The bodies were flown from Israel to Istanbul, along with more than 450 activists, heroes...

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Gulf oil spill: US begins criminal investigations

The U.S. government has begun criminal and civil investigations into the Gulf of Mexico oil spill, Attorney General Eric Holder announced.He would not say which companies or individuals were targeted.Previously, BP launched a new effort to contain...

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Afghan President Hamid Karzai to host 'peace jirga'

Hundreds of Afghan notables and the elders are meeting in Kabul to discuss how Taliban fighters to persuade lay down their arms.President Hamid Karzai is aimed at the three-day "peace jirga 'to create support for his plan to turn an economic incentives...

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Japanese PM Yukio Hatoyama resigns amid Okinawa row

Yukio Hatoyama Japanese Prime Minister has announced his resignation after only eight months in office.He had after breaking an election promise to an unpopular American military base to move away from the southern island of Okinawa.The move comes...

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Early American colonists 'were hit by severe drought'

A study of discarded oyster shells have reinforced the idea that the first British colonists in America had to endure an unusually severe drought.Founded in 1607, was Jamestown in Virginia the first successful English settlement in North America.Chemical...

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Lecturers warn of national strike

University teachers may opt for a national strike unless an agreement is reached on the redundancies, said a teacher 'union leader.Sally Hunt, UCU head of the Union, said there would soon be a point where its members to push for action at a national...

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Civil service pay: Cable calls for 'more discipline'

Business Secretary Vince Cable has called for "more discipline" in the public sector pay after it was announced that 172 officers are more than the Prime Minister paid.The salaries of those earning more than £ 150,000 were revealed for the first time...

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