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PRINCE Charles is said to be “furious” that a trusted aide has written a book which gives details about the breakdown of his marriage to Princess Diana. The Queen’s former press secretary Dickie Arbiter is promoting his memoirs, which are believed to contain explosive insights into the inner workings of the royal family. His book, On Duty with the Queen, …

Genene Jones, the killer nurse who may be the most infamous serial killer in Texas history, is up for a parole hearing at the women’s prison in east Texas.

A Brampton, Ont., teenager has become the first pediatric patient in North America to have a benign tumour near his hip removed without radiation or surgery. Doctors at the Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto used high-intensity focused ultrasound (HIFU) waves, guided by an MRI machine, to burn off the tumour of 16-year-old Jack Campanile two weeks ago.

People with diabetes in low-income neighborhoods are 10 times more likely than those from wealthy areas to have their lower limbs (legs, foot, or toes) amputated because of a diabetes-related complication, a study published Monday reports.

Canadians are spending more time in school, only to wind up with careers unrelated to their high-priced university degrees, a Workopolis study says. An overwhelming 73 per cent of online poll respondents told the job site Workopolis that they work in jobs unrelated to their educational backgrounds, while 56 per cent said they are over-educated for their current jobs.

As destruction and death roamed around the besieged strip of Gaza, the Canadian province of Ontario has vowed to do what it can to help children seriously wounded in the Israeli war on the besieged conflict that resulted in the death of more than 1860 and injured thousands more.

Taking aspirin daily can significantly reduce the risk of developing major cancers of the digestive tract, ie bowel, stomach and oesophagus, besides heart attacks and strokes it is known to prevent. Scientists from Queen Mary University of London (QMUL) reviewed all the available evidence from many studies and clinical trials assessing both the benefits and harms of preventive use of …

As of Tuesday, foods on grocery store shelves carrying the “gluten-free” label must meet stringent Food and Drug Administration requirements, following through on a plan introduced one year ago that promised to regulate the claim. The FDA introduced gluten-free labeling guidelines last year and published the final rule in August, 2013., giving retailers a year to come into compliance. The …

Video games have no positive or negative effect on adolescents who play between one and three hours a day, according to a new study from Oxford University. Participants between 10 and 15 years old who played “moderate” amounts of video games, one to three hours per day, were just as socially and well-adjusted as those who played no video games …

Gaps in life expectancy between blacks and whites in the United States as a whole have narrowed since the 1990s, but in some places, such as the District of Columbia, large disparities remain, a team of epidemiologists has found. From 1990 through 2009, the difference in life expectancy at birth between blacks and whites shrank by 2.7 years for males …

Rampling, 68, stuns in ad, English actor who has appeared in films like Georgy Girl, Stardust Memories, Angel Heart, The Night Porter, The Wings of the Dove, and Swimming Pool, is looking impeccable in the fall 2014 campaign for Nars lipstick.