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Family, friends and volunteers continued their search Sunday for Realtor Beverly Carter, who has been missing since Thursday. Pulaski County sheriff’s office spokesman Lt. Carl Minden said search efforts started up again about 9 a.m. Sunday.

Vanessa Williams is proving life starts at 50 by announcing her engagement to boyfriend Jim Skrip on a recent taping of “The Queen Latifah Show” airing Sept. 30.

Australian researchers have achieved ground-breaking results in a clinical trial using hookworms to reduce the symptoms of celiac disease. The results are also good news for sufferers of other inflammatory conditions such as asthma and Crohn’s disease.

A stripper who performed at yesterday’s AFL Grand Final has been fined $300 and released from custody after a night behind bars.

Local technology experts have warned a new computer virus called “Shellshock”, which allows someone else control over your electronics without any permission, is doing the rounds. The virus is said to be threatening the internet’s backbone.

Scores of people are presumed dead after 31 bodies were found by rescuers following the violent eruption of a Japanese volcano on Saturday. The hikers, which were discovered near the peak of Mount Ontake, were found in a state of “cardiopulmonary” arrest, according to police, while reports claim rescuers found them apparently not breathing with their hearts stopped.

A drug used to treat advanced breast cancer has had what appears to be unprecedented success in prolonging lives in a clinical trial, researchers reported on Sunday. Patients who received the drug — Perjeta, from the Swiss drug maker Roche — had a median survival time nearly 16 months longer than those in the control group.

A bus transporting the North Central Texas College softball team back to its Gainesville, Texas, campus was hit by a semi truck Friday night, killing four and injuring more than 15, according to the Oklahoma Highway Patrol.

Authorities charged an Illinois man late Friday with setting a fire at a control facility outside of Chicago that caused chaos within the facility and throughout the nation with thousands of flight cancellations.

Ashya King, the boy with a brain tumour whose parents removed him from a hospital in England, will now have his treatment paid for by the NHS.

Young pro-democracy activists in Hong Kong faced off with riot police Saturday after a night of scuffles and arrests.