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Up to 1 in 5 children suffer from mental disorder: CDC

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Up to 20 percent of children in the United States suffer from a mental disorder, and the number of kids diagnosed...

Ewwww -- poop in pools more common than you may think, CDC warns

Attention swimmers: More than half of the public pools tested in a new study contained bacterial evidence that someone may haveĀ  pooped...

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Greying China taps rural elderly to care for those even older

QIANTUN, China (Reuters) - Two years short of 70, Zhang Guosheng spends his days caring for an 81-year-old fellow villager - washing his...

Boxing kangaroo stops jogging Australian MP in his tracks

SYDNEY (Reuters) - A startled kangaroo knocked an Australian politician to the ground and clawed his leg after its morning graze on a...

EU finds time to tell restaurants how to serve olive oil

BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Critics ridiculed European Union bureaucrats on Saturday for taking time off fighting the euro zone's debt crisis to...

The supervised after-prom party: Now with cars, iPads and other goodies

Sometime on Sunday morning, a Pennsylvania high school student will be presented with the keys to a black Honda Civic just for going to a...

France's Hollande signs gay marriage law

PARIS (Reuters) - French President Francois Hollande has signed into law a bill allowing same-sex marriage, making France the 14th country...

Gay couples in Portugal win limited adoption rights

LISBON (Reuters) - Portugal's parliament on Friday handed same-sex couples the right to adopt the children or foster children of one...

Amid frenzy over map apps, new focus on 16th century world view

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - As online titans compete to deliver instant maps to smartphones, the Library of Congress in Washington is focusing...

Canadian astronaut wrestles with gravity after spaceflight

Back on Earth, Canadian astronaut and cyberspace tweeter Chris Hadfield is getting a rough re-introduction to gravity after a five-month...

Toronto mayor denies smoking crack cocaine

TORONTO (Reuters) - Toronto Mayor Rob Ford, a target of criticism for his often unconventional conduct, on Friday denied media allegations...

Czechs turn Soviet nuclear warhead depot into Iron Curtain museum

MISOV, Czech Republic (Reuters) - A former secret Soviet nuclear warhead shelter in the Czech Republic is being turned into a museum...