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BOSTON (MarketWatch) -- Mine That Bird was a long shot to win the Kentucky Derby. You some day living in a community for people aged 55-plus? Not so much.

BOBBY Campbell, the former Chelsea and Scotland winger, has died at the age of 86. In seven seasons at Stamford Bridge, he made 213 appearances and scored 40 goals for a club with whom he was a crowd ...

Glorious scenery and attentive staff. Freshly prepared meals, delivered twice daily. Even the odd DVD. Nothing to do but eat, snooze - and, just occasionally, have sex.It is not the latest boutique hotel, but a new home for Sichuan's pandas. Construction began this month on new facilities, which will cost 1bn yuan (£100m), to replace the world's largest giant panda breeding centre, the Wolong nature reserve, destroyed in last May's earthquake in China.Four of the victims were keepers at the famed Wolong reserve, close to the epicentre of the shock; several more staff members risked their lives saving the creatures they had reared. The breeding centre and surrounding sanctuary are home to about 150 pandas.'It was very scary; the hills collapsed and cracks opened in the land,' said Huang Yan, deputy director of research.Pandas stopped eating and ran away when they heard the slightest sounds. To add to the keepers' concerns, many were pregnant. 'One of them was Guo Guo, who was saved by u

The worlds fish stocks are seriously threatened by the growing presence of lost and discarded fishing gear that now make up about 10 per cent of all marine litter, according to a new report released today by two United Nations agencies. The st

Parents want their children to sit tests at the age of 11, the chief inspector for schools in England tells MPs.

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Age has not withered their spirit nor has it daunted their belief in the electoral process as senior citizens in the national capital seek to keep their tryst with democracy, even braving long queues ...

'Association Between Neighborhood Context and Smoking Prevalence Among Asian-Americans,' American Journal of Public Health: Namratha Kandula of the