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Physician and writer Lisa Sanders knows of one case in which a doctor's Google search diagnosed a patient's rare malady (a vomiting ...

In the Vatican's backyard, a movement to air and root out abusive Catholic priests is slowly and fitfully taking hold.

Police contracts that put pressure on forensic scientists to deliver low-cost investigations within tight timescales risk jeopardising quality and could lead to a miscarriage of justice, experts have warned.Police forces have changed the way they obtain forensic science services for criminal investigations and now pick laboratories through competitive tendering.That has led to forces typically employing firms that offer the lowest cost or quickest turnaround time for testing evidence, according to Clare Stangoe, principal scientist at Forensic Access, a leading provider of forensics services. The murder and sex crimes specialist said that whereas before scientists were given 'the time they need', they might now have to deliver results within three days, with the laboratory facing a fine if they are late.'The danger comes where arbitrary time frames are put on work,' Stangoe said. 'Too much pressure put on scientists to do the work so quickly [means] that they may only do very specifica

At its heart, Google Voice is a call forwarding service, providing a single number that can ring all, or any, of your phones. But the Mountain View Internet company's vision is much more ambitious: to supplant the mishmash of passwords, formats and contact...

Apple's Safari, Palm's WebOS browser, Google's Android--which one is the best? We put those browsers plus three other contenders through their paces.

VERONA, Italy -- It happened night after night, the deaf man said, sometimes in the priest's bedroom, sometimes in the bathroom, even in the confessional.

AUSTRALIANS make up the largest portion of foreign sex offenders against Thia children, a study says.

When he was a young boy at a Catholic-run institute for the deaf, Alessandro Vantini said, priests sodomized him so relentlessly he came to feel "as if I were dead." This year, he and dozens of other ...

This June 29, 2009 photo shows the Antonio Provolo Institute in Verona, Italy. Breaking the conspiracy of silence, 67 former students from the institute signed a statement alleging that sexual abuse, ...

Microsoft's week was one of legal maneuvers, featuring briefs submitted by Redmond in both its patent-infringement case against i4i and the Google Book Search settlement. Despite much of its news being dominated by court proceedings, Microsoft also continues to take steps in its long ramp-up to the release of Windows 7, its new operating system upon which it has pinned many of its corporate hopes. - Microsoft's week could be described in one word: litigious. The ongoing patent-infringement battle against i4i, the small Canadian company that argued successfully before an East Texas court that Microsoft Word violated its X M L-related patent, entered yet another round on Sept. 8. On that da...