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Perelman School of Medicine researchers at University of Pennsylvania claim to have discovered cause of baldness.

After seven years on the run wanted for murder, Malcolm Naden has been found by police in the Australian Outback. Which other villains have dodged the law for long periods?

On Monday 19 March 2012, Seattle News Media informed its readers that the city's Mayor, Mike McGinn will fly to Chongqing this week but: "...hizzoner...will have trouble matching up with his opposite number while there (because) party boss Bo Xilai was fired and disgraced last week, relieved of his duties as Chongqing's Communist Party Secretary in China's biggest political scandal in two decades..."

World Water Day is celebrated every year on 22 March.

Five Turkish police officers killed in clashes with Kurdistan Workers' Party.

Indiscriminate shelling, sniper attacks and house raids by Bashar al-Assad forces in Al-Qusayr, says Human Rights Watch.

Russia and China, who dissented on two previous UN resolutions on Syria, joined the other members to endorse Kofi Annan's six-point plan for cease-fire in Syria.

Deaths by liver disease have increased by 25 per cent between 2001 and 2009 in England.

Siege 'near end' as commandos reported inside and ambulance arrives.

This year's theme for the day is water and food security.

The soldiers were unhappy with the way the Toure government has handled insurgency.

A quarter of a million people die in hospitals in England every year.

French commandos on standby as seige of Mohammed Merah in Toulouse enters second day.

George Osborne's pledge to support lower and middle wage earners fails to wash with unions.

At least 800 houses are damaged in Guerrero after a powerful earthquake hit Mexico.

The French Ministry of Interior has denied that the suspected killer Mohammed Merah has been arrested.

Lot of efforts have been put in by people to create a world record in their name.

Death of Pope Shenouda III, who led Egypt's Coptic minority for 40 years, comes at a time of uncertainty for Christians in Egypt.

The historical city of Venice is sinking gradually at a rate of about 2 millimeters (.07 inches) a year, according to a new study.

Twitter, the hugely popular social networking Web site, is celebrating the sixth anniversary of the first tweet ever sent!

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Illegal logging profits are benefiting corrupt officials, according to an analysis by the World Bank.

The Islamist terrorist group Boko Haram has stopped all talks with the Nigerian government, saying it could not trust a government of "unbelievers".

Judith Tebbutt, snatched by pirates at a luxury holiday safari resort in Kenya, freed after family pays ransom.

A parcel bomb exploded outside the Indonesian embassy in Paris.

With a train size of 2,750 meter, the wedding dress worn by 17 year-old model Ema Dumitrescu in Romania broke previous world records for the longest wedding dress.

Two French investigators injured in shoot-out targeting suspects in Toulouse Ozar Hatorah school killings.

As supporters of the Bahraini opposition march in Lebanon and Iraq, the United Nations has voiced concern over the regime's use of tear gas on protesters.

Funeral of religious and spiritual leader of Egypt's minority Coptic Christians draws thousands of mourners.