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Los Angeles - Thousands of Californians fled for their lives Thursday as an out-of-control wildfire destroyed at least 20 houses in the posh Southern California city of Santa Barbara and threatened thousands more. Strong winds forecast for later Thur...

Abu Muslim likens his work to that of a surgeon, cutting out diseased parts of a body to save it from cancer. But unlike a doctor, he does not save lives, he takes them. Specifically, Abu Muslim and a small group of colleagues claim to have been killing homosexual men in Baghdad. 'We see this [homosexuality] as a serious illness in the community that has been spreading rapidly among the youth after it was brought in from the outside by American soldiers,' he said, in an interview in the Iraqi capital. Abu Muslim is not his real name. 'These are not the habits of Iraq or our community and we must eliminate them.' In recent months, dozens of gay Iraqi men are believed to have been murdered because of their sexuality, in a purge of those considered to be morally deviant, although such killings have been taking place since 2003. Officially the police put the number in the past two months at fewer than 10 killings, although unofficially they are reported to acknowledge the number is more

As many as one in six people who took part in a study of older people who live at home were under-nourished and at risk of malnutrition, according to the May issue of the Journal of Clinical Nursing.R...

Berlin - A German tribunal on Thursday rejected a legal challenge to efforts to bring Ukrainian-born John Demjanjuk, 89, to Germany for trial for allegedly assisting in the Nazi death camp murders of 29,000 Jews. The state administrative tribunal rul...

Labour's recent record for improving living standards has taken a hit with official figures showing barely any growth in after-tax incomes for average households in the five years before the recession started

Labour's recent record for improving living standards has taken a hit with official figures showing barely any growth in after-tax incomes for average households in the five years before the recession started

As many as one in six people who took part in a study of older people who live at home were under-nourished and at risk of malnutrition, according to the May issue of the Journal of Clinical Nursing. ...

The number of pensioners living in poverty in Scotland has increased by 20,000, according to new figures. The Scottish Government statistics suggested that the proportion of OAPs in relative poverty ...

Anna Mae "Babe" Ahern has spent every one of her 101 years living at the Evergreen Country Club, a sprawling 18-hole golf course that she inherited from her family.And if Evergreen Park wants to take ...

(New York University) A new book, 'Portfolios of the Poor: How the World's Poor Live on $2 a Day,' provides the first in-depth examination of how the world's poorest households patch together their financial existences -- and finds that they do so with surprising sophistication and complexity.