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The future of medicine is a vast, opening playing field. If we could invent a magic pill for everything, perhaps we’d never deal with disease and pain again. For now, our human bodies are fallible. And in those fallacies, there is complicated science.

It has to be one of the oddest matchups in U.S. military history: 100 of America’s most elite special operations troops, aided by night vision scopes and satellite imagery, helping African forces find a wig-wearing, gibberish-speaking fugitive rebel commander named Joseph Kony who has been hiding out in the jungle for years with a band of child soldiers and a harem of dozens of child brides.

Last week, The Sudbury Star asked readers if they would become an organ donor to save a loved one's life. The overwhelming majority of online respondents -- 90% -- said yes. Six per cent said no and four per cent of online respondents said they were not sure.[...]

The latest stop-motion animation feature from the studio best known for Wallace and Gromit and Chicken Run follows an inept band of pirates who encounter Charles Darwin on the high seas. Critic Ian Buckwalter says it's a smart, adventure-driven comedy with all-ages appeal.

Emma Fontaine will run all over Norwich Free Academy’s campus Saturday, trying to prove just how cozy the vast high school can be.

KUALA LUMPUR: Kazakhstan's President Nursultan Nazarbayev was accorded a state welcome at Parliament Square here.

PUTRAJAYA: Kazakhstan has invited Malaysian investors and businessmen to spread their wings to the country.

As we mark the 100th Anniversary of the RMS Titanic's ill-fated maiden voyage, RR Auction is proud to offer the public the opportunity to bid on a vast array of recovered relics and signed memorabilia relating to one of the grandest--and most infamous--vessels to ever succumb to the sea.

In the protracted congressional redistricting war, House Republican leaders have tried splitting the Democratic enclave in Kansas City, Kan., and they’ve tried splitting Democrats in Topeka.

Companies trip over themselves to make their brands household names. But only a few brands become so engrained in the lexicon that they’re synonymous with the products themselves.

Islamists gained ground in northern Mali, jostling with Tuareg rebels for control of the vast desert region as the troubled nation's military rulers faced fuel and money shortages from sanctions Tuesday.