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TV celebrity Katie Price candidly confesses that she hates her tummy, boobs, knees and hair.

A team of scientists from the University of Strathclyde have created the brightest gamma ray beam ever, which is more than a thousand billion times brilliant than the Sun and could help open up new possibilities for medicine potentially revolutionizing cancer detection and treatment.

Despite the successful ousting of Gaddafi, the NATO-operation in Libya is still making waves as two French lawyers have indicated their intention to prosecute Nicholas Sarkozy for committing war crimes in Libya, following claims that civilian deaths caused by the NATO bombings in Tripoli could prove more than first assumed.

Declining Cancer Rates in U.S. Direct Consequence of Dramatic Fall in Smoking. The declining rates of cancer in America are the direct consequence of U.S cities becoming tougher on smokers. U.S citizens are now turning away from smoking and as a direct results U.S citizens are becoming healthier.

Diabetes Epidemic now Stands at 366 Million: Study

Andy Whitfield, the Australian-based actor who found fame playing Spartacus in the TV series "Spartacus: Blood and Sand" died aged 39.

As the scandal surrounding the release of the Lockerbie bomber refuses to die down, new allegations implicating the signature of a BP oil deal have emerged.

With revelations that Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe has prostate cancer that may kill him within two years, the race for succession in Zimbabwe is set to get even more heated.

A genetically engineered virus that targets cancerous tumour cells in patients without harming healthy tissue has been used successfully for the first time, researchers say.

Probably not is, sadly, the short answer.

Poor health took the better of Steve Jobs as he resigned on Wednesday, sending shockwaves through technology and media circles.

Phillip Seaton and wife Deborah have sued a surgeon for "loss of service, love and affection", after Mr Seaton's penis was amputated during an operation which he said was done without his consent.

Medical tests on children living in three towns near the crippled Fukushima Dai-Ichi nuclear plant revealed a shocking 45 per cent of those surveyed suffered low-level thyroid radiation exposure, Japan's government said in a statement.

The Indian police have arrested anti-corruption campaigner and Mahatma Gandhi disciple Anna Hazare for pledging to go ahead with a hunger strike against a proposed new anti-corruption law.

After more than two hundred years of British rule, India regained its independence on Aug. 15, 1947.

The father of a Scottish victims wants Megrahi alive but back in prison.

The United States sent a representative for the first time to the annual memorial service for victims of the atomic bombing of Nagasaki, one of two nuclear attacks that led Japan to surrender in World War II.

A new hormone test may be able to predict female fertility, allowing women to chart what age they can have children until, according to research.

Cancer patients could significantly increase their chance of survival by taking part in regular exercise during and after their treatment, according to a report from Macmillan Cancer Support.

Mouse sperm made from stem cells and used to treat infertile mice marks a step forward for regenerative medicine, according to researchers in Japan.

A charity set up a hoax website telling people they could get a sun tan from their computer screens in order to raise awareness of skin cancer.

Crimestoppers have compiled a list of the top ten most wanted fraudsters, who are believed to be responsible for at least £200 million worth of fraud between them.

Al-Megrahi, the man convicted of killing 270 people by bombing a Pan Am jet in 1988 was11 years later released from Greenock Prison by the Scottish government on compassionate grounds.

The private funeral ceremony for Amy Winehouse took place on Tuesday, where friends and family all gathered to say one last goodbye.

Samsung has denied allegations that unsafe working conditions in its chip production factories directly led to two employees dying of leukaemia.

Hoping to make it third time lucky, Sir Paul McCartney, 69, is set to marry Nancy Shevell, 51 in a quite ceremony in London.

The Bond girl who starred in On Her Majesty's Secret died in April after drinking a corrosive cleaning liquid, a court heard.

Former Conservative Chancelleor Nigel Lawson is said to have declared that the National Health Service is the closest thing the British have to a religion, a statement which seems to be proved truer by the day by the Trades Union Congress.

Mounting scientific evidence is increasingly against the theory that mobile phone use causes brain tumours, according to a comprehensive analysis from an independent international expert panel.

With no heir apparent to Venezuela's presidency, politicians are jockeying for power as President Hugo Chavez undergoes medical treatment in Cuba, analysts said.