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The Lancet

• [Articles] Effect of specialist retrieval teams on outcomes in children admitted to paediatric intensive care units in England and Wales: a retrospective cohort study August 27, 2010 Padmanabhan Ramnarayan, Krish Thiru, Roger C Parslow, David A Harrison, Elizabeth S Draper, Kathy M Rowan
• [Editorial] Why are drug trials in Alzheimer's disease failing? August 27, 2010 The Lancet
• [Correspondence] Opportunistic screening for type 2 diabetes in primary care August 27, 2010 Erwin P Klein Woolthuis, Wim JC de Grauw, Chris van Weel
• [Editorial] What makes a good doctor? August 27, 2010 The Lancet
• [Correspondence] Extensively drug-resistant tuberculosis in South Africa August 27, 2010 Sourin Bhuniya
• [Comment] Cancer research in the global village August 27, 2010 Alastair J Munro, Paddy G Niblock
• [Correspondence] Preventable cancer in the USA August 27, 2010 Martin Wiseman, Kate Allen, Deirdre McGinley-Gieser
• [Comment] Improving interhospital paediatric transport August 27, 2010 Philippe Jouvet, Jacques Lacroix
• [Viewpoint] The rise and fall of the antimalarial Lapdap: a lesson in pharmacogenetics August 27, 2010 Lucio Luzzatto
• [Comment] STAT-C: a full revolution or just a step forward? August 27, 2010 Laura Milazzo, Spinello Antinori

Channel News Asia

• Obama to launch political offensive on economy September 3, 2010
  WASHINGTON: President Barack Obama will next week make a new bid to stem ebbing political support over the slowing economic recovery, with visits to the struggling Midwest and a formal White House news conference. […]
• 25 die in Mexico military-gang clash September 3, 2010
  MEXICO CITY: A clash between soldiers and gang members near Mexico's northern city of Monterrey left 25 dead, local media reported Thursday. The soldiers had stormed a training camp set up by suspected drug gang members in a northern border region which has seen an escalation of violence in recent months, including the massacre of 72 migrants last week, […]
• Hurricane Earl menaces US East Coast September 2, 2010
  KITTY HAWK, North Carolina: Hurricane Earl bore down on a vast stretch of the US East Coast on Thursday, as tens of thousands of people fled North Carolina's barrier islands to avoid dangerous winds and surf. […]
• Abbas, Netanyahu vow to meet every two weeks for peace September 2, 2010
  WASHINGTON: Israeli and Palestinian leaders launched their first direct negotiations in 20 months on Thursday, agreeing to meet every two weeks in a bid to reach a lasting peace settlement within a year. […]
• Fire at Phillips Collection museum; artwork 'safe' September 2, 2010
  WASHINGTON - A fire on Thursday damaged Washington's world-famous Phillips Collection museum, which houses works by Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Vincent Van Gogh, Willem de Kooning, and Winslow Homer. […]
• Explosion on Gulf of Mexico oil platform sends crew into sea September 2, 2010
  NEW ORLEANS, Louisiana: An oil platform explosion on Thursday in the Gulf of Mexico forced the crew to jump into the sea and threatened further damage to waters still recovering from the BP disaster. […]
• Canada's ruling Conservatives, Liberals neck-and-neck: poll September 2, 2010
  OTTAWA - Canada's main opposition party has made significant gains in public opinion and is now virtually tied with the ruling Conservatives going into the next session of parliament, according to a poll released on Thursday. […]

BBC News

• Japan imposes new Iran sanctions September 3, 2010
  Japan imposes new sanctions on Iran over its nuclear programme but maintains its oil import schedule. […]
• Newspaper review September 3, 2010
  Papers discuss existence of God […]
• India Maoists 'kill policeman' September 3, 2010
  Maoist rebels in the Indian state of Bihar say they have killed one of four policemen they have been holding hostage. […]
• Earl weakens as it nears US coast September 3, 2010
  Hurricane Earl weakens as it nears the US East Coast, though officials warn it remains "large and powerful". […]
• Explosion on Gulf of Mexico rig September 3, 2010
  An explosion rips through an offshore oil rig in the Gulf of Mexico, west of the site of the blast in April that caused a huge oil spill. […]
• Federer progresses as seeds fall September 3, 2010
  Roger Federer overcomes windy conditions to beat Andreas Beck and reach the US Open third round, but seeds Nikolay Davydenko and Maran Cilic crash out. […]
• Tanker aground off north Canada September 3, 2010
  A tanker carrying 9m litres of diesel fuel runs aground off the coast of northern Canada but no environmental damage is reported. […]
• Pakistan trio hit by ICC charges September 3, 2010
  Three Pakistan cricketers accused of corruption are set to be questioned again by police, after being charged and provisionally suspended by the International Cricket Council. […]
• Cheryl Cole 'to be given divorce' September 3, 2010
  X Factor judge Cheryl Cole will reportedly be granted a divorce from her footballer husband Ashley in a court hearing on Friday. […]
• Class of its own September 3, 2010
  Inside the Royal Navy's newest, most powerful attack submarine […]

CNN

• Hurricane heads for U.S. east coast September 3, 2010
  Hurricane Earl took aim on the Outer Banks of North Carolina early Thursday as the powerful storm prepared to take a swipe at the Eastern Seaboard. […]
• Fears grow over global food supply September 3, 2010
  Read full story for latest details. […]
• Mexico shootout kills 25 drug suspects September 3, 2010
  A shootout between soldiers and suspected drug dealers in northeast Mexico left 25 of the suspects dead, the regional military said Thursday. […]
• Chile health minister: Miners strong September 3, 2010
  The 33 miners trapped far below the surface of the Earth appear in mind and spirit as strong as " solid rock" and are working well as a team, Chilean Health Minister Jaime Manalich told CNN. […]
• Fire out at Gulf of Mexico oil platform September 3, 2010
  An oil and gas production platform has exploded 80 miles off the central coast of Louisiana, with 13 people overboard, including one injured, the Coast Guard said Thursday morning. […]
• BP removes cap from plugged well September 3, 2010
  Crews removed the cap from BP's ruptured Gulf of Mexico oil well late Thursday afternoon, a company spokeswoman said, an important step toward permanently sealing the well. […]
• Obama mulls new economic measures September 3, 2010
  After a week mostly focused on Iraq and Mideast diplomacy, it's back to the economy for President Barack Obama, who will deliver remarks Friday on the August unemployment numbers. […]
• Mideast peace talks under way September 3, 2010
  Direct talks between Israeli and Palestinian leaders kicked off again with pledges of support for a peace process leading to a comprehensive settlement within one year. […]
• U.N. on defense over Congo gang rapes September 2, 2010
  The United Nations appears to have been aware of rape by rebels in eastern Congo earlier than it originally said it was, according to an internal e-mail and a humanitarian bulletin. […]
• Hamas, 10 groups vow to attack Israelis September 2, 2010
  "Resistance operations" will continue against Israelis despite the arrests of Hamas activists in the West Bank, a Hamas official said Thursday. […]

Oddly Enough

• Dirty jokes and papal rosaries mix in Chile mine saga September 3, 2010
  COPIAPO, Chile (Reuters) - Contact between 33 Chilean miners trapped for weeks underground and the outside world took an irreverent twist on Thursday, as the men passed dirty jokes to the surface -- and the Pope sent down blessed rosaries. […]
• Iran's first lady of skiing trains on grass September 2, 2010
  DIZIN, Iran (Reuters) - Skiing down a grassy mountain in the middle of summer is not the only unusual thing about Marjan Kalhor. She is also an Olympic competitor -- a rare thing for a woman in a male-dominated sport in Iran. […]
• UEFA bans vuvuzelas from European competition September 1, 2010
  BERNE (Reuters) - Vuvuzelas have been kicked out of European competitions after UEFA said that the controversial plastic trumpets drowned out supporters and detracted from the emotion of the game. […]
• Top Gear's Stig finally unmasked September 1, 2010
  LONDON (Reuters) - The identity of "The Stig," the mystery test car driver on the popular BBC TV motoring show "Top Gear" was revealed on Wednesday after the broadcaster lost a legal battle to keep his name secret. […]
• Cup of tea forces UK jet to make emergency landing September 1, 2010
  BERLIN (Reuters) - A British airplane en route to Poland was forced to make an emergency landing in Germany after a 56-year-old woman spilt a hot cup of tea on herself, German police said on Wednesday. […]
• Dutch colleges angry over sex job ads for freshmen September 1, 2010
  AMSTERDAM (Reuters) - A number of Dutch colleges are considering legal action against the publisher of a move-in guide for new freshmen, after the company included an ad recruiting students for jobs as online sex workers. […]
• Cambodia aims high with record-breaking skyscraper September 1, 2010
  PHNOM PENH (Reuters) - Cambodia is aiming for the record books with an ambitious plan to construct Asia's tallest building, a 555-metre skyscraper worth $200 million (£130 million), Prime Minister Hun Sen said on Wednesday. […]
• Chinese villagers forced to change untypable name September 1, 2010
  BEIJING (Reuters) - Villagers in eastern China has been forced by the country's unbending bureaucracy to change their family name as the character is so rare it cannot be typed. […]
• France arrests man for trying to dazzle pilots with laser August 31, 2010
  PARIS (Reuters) - A man appeared in court Tuesday accused of trying to dazzle pilots with a laser beam as they were landing at France's second-busiest airport Paris Orly, aviation authorities said. […]
• Parched English fields reveal ancient sites August 31, 2010
  LONDON (Reuters) - The exceptionally dry early summer months in Britain have revealed the ghostly outlines of several hundred previously unknown ancient sites buried in fields across the English countryside. […]