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Published: Tuesday March 19, 2013 MYT 7:18:00 PM Unhealthy habits contribute to breast cancer KUCHING: Unhealthy habits, including smoking and poor dietary consumption, may increase the chances of breast cancer among women by 45 percent, Normah Medical Specialist Centre gynecologist Dr Alvince...

Published: Tuesday March 19, 2013 MYT 11:31:00 AM Updated: Tuesday March 19, 2013 MYT 4:27:17 PM Indian national with syabu worth RM930,000 nabbed By HAN KAR KAY [email protected] The drugs were found hidden in 39 plastic tube rolls inside a trolley bag. ALOR SETAR: A 35-year-old Indian...

Elderly Iraqi tells British inquiry son was tortured By Estelle Shirbon LONDON | Mon Mar 18, 2013 11:10am EDT (Reuters) - An elderly Iraqi father described seeing signs of torture on his son's body as he testified on Monday at a London public inquiry into allegations of atrocities by British...

Rwanda says war crimes suspect surrenders at U.S. Embassy UNITED NATIONS | Mon Mar 18, 2013 12:46pm EDT (Reuters) - Rwandan-born former Congolese general Bosco Ntaganda, wanted by the International Criminal Court for suspected war crimes in Congo, has given himself up at the U.S. Embassy in...

Analysis: No quick fix for Britain's overloaded infrastructure By Lorraine Turner and William Schomberg LONDON | Mon Mar 18, 2013 12:09pm EDT (Reuters) - After heavy rainfall, raw sewage gushes into the River Thames from a network of dank sewers beneath the streets of London. A...

Italy center-right lawmakers protest against Berlusconi trial By Sara Rossi MILAN | Mon Mar 11, 2013 3:11pm EDT (Reuters) - Dozens of parliamentarians from Silvio Berlusconi's center-right party demonstrated on Monday outside the Milan court hearing the former Italian prime minister's trial...

France, Germany at odds over lifting Syrian arms embargo By Adrian Croft and Justyna Pawlak BRUSSELS | Mon Mar 11, 2013 3:18pm EDT (Reuters) - France urged the European Union to look again at lifting an arms embargo on Syria to help rebels fighting President Bashar al-Assad, putting it at...

North Korea slams U.N. "plot" to investigate its human rights record By Tom Miles GENEVA | Mon Mar 11, 2013 3:25pm EDT (Reuters) - North Korea condemned a threatened U.N. investigation into its alleged human rights abuses on Monday and denounced a U.N. report as "faked material ... invented...

Swiss vote 'to crack down on excessive pay' A plan to limit pay to executives based in Switzerland is expected to be passed today, as people vote on the referendum against “rip-offs” remuneration. Novartis' outgoing chairman Daniel Vasella has long been a lightning rod for criticism of...

China executes drug kingpin with last moments on TV One of Asia’s most notorious drug kingpins has reportedly been executed in China for the massacre of 13 Chinese sailors - with his final moments being broadcast live on national television. (L-R): Naw Kham of Burma, Hsang Kham from...

13-year-old drug cartel assassin slain in Mexico QMI AGENCY FIRST POSTED: FRIDAY, MARCH 01, 2013 04:15 PM EST | UPDATED: FRIDAY, MARCH 01, 2013 04:21 PM EST An admitted teenage assassin was found killed execution style with six others in central Mexico, CNN reports. Jose Moreno Leos, 13...

Police arrested over taxi driver dragged to death Date March 3, 2013 Shabtai Gold Outraged ... relatives of Mido Macia with the Daily Sun's evidence. Photo: AFP Eight South African police officers have been arrested and will face murder charges over the death of a suspect who was tied to...

Paraded, then executed Date March 3, 2013 Andrew Jacobs Public spectacle ... ringleader Naw Kham is taken to the execution chamber. Photo: AP During a two-hour television broadcast that was part morality play, part propaganda tour de force, the Chinese government sent four foreign drug...

Malaysian forces kill 10 Filipinos in territorial fight Date March 3, 2013 Floyd Whaley Aftermath ... the bodies of Malaysian commandos are returned home. Photo: Reuters A CENTURIES-OLD territorial dispute between Malaysia and the Philippines has erupted in violence, leaving at least 12...

Third of children in conflict-ridden Congo denied schooling: U.N. KINSHASA | Sat Mar 2, 2013 7:04am EST (Reuters) - Nearly a third of Congolese children are missing out on schooling as conflict, poverty, and weak governance take their toll, according to a study from the United Nations...

Italy's Grillo lists conditions for backing a government By Naomi O'Leary ROME | Sat Mar 2, 2013 7:17am EST (Reuters) - The 5-Star Movement that emerged as Italy's largest party after a deadlocked election might support a government if it changed electoral law, cut politicians' expenses and...

Iraq monthly death toll down in February BAGHDAD | Sat Mar 2, 2013 9:46am EST (Reuters) - Militants killed 136 Iraqis in February, fewer than the previous month, as the country continues to grapple with insurgents just over a year after U.S. troops withdrew, health ministry figures showed on...