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A septuagenarian woman was killed at her Central Road residence in the city's Dhanmondi area yesterday allegedly by her domestic help who made off with gold ornaments and some other valuables. The dec...

U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius will travel to Maine today and formally release a new report on the importance of health insurance reform for older women (ages...

New research from Yale University suggests highly educated black women are twice as likely to have never been married by the age of 45 as white women with similar education. Hannah Bruckner, co-author of the study, and two single black women with advanced degrees — Niambi Carter and Kimberly Hill — discuss the findings and why they ring true.

The 22 men and women found guilty of obstruction are expected to be handed heavy community service sentencesClimate protesters who hijacked a coal train on its way to Drax power station in June 2008 are expected to be sentenced today at 4.30pm. The 22 men and women, including a senior university lecturer, teachers and film-makers, were convicted in July of obstructing an engine or carriage using a railway. The judge has already ruled out prison and they are likely to receive heavy community service sentences.Their hopes of repeating the 'Kingsnorth Six' judgment last September, when activists who defaced a power station chimney were acquitted by a Kent jury, were dashed by a judge in July, who refused to admit arguments that the hijack was 'necessary and proportionate to prevent the greater crime of carbon pollution'.At the end of the July trial, chief crown prosecutor North Yorkshire, Rob Turnbull, said: 'This was not a peaceful demonstration about the environment, but a well planned

By Mike O'Sullivan - New details are emerging in the case of kidnap victim Jaycee Dugard, the California girl abducted at age 11 and freed last week at the age of 29. Jaycee has spent the past week reconnecting with her family, and Thursday, her aunt told reporters about the woman's readjustment.

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