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15-minute online test to detect Alzheimer’s early

Scientists have developed what they claim is a 15-minute online test which can help detect the early signs of Alzheimer’s disease.
A team at Oxford University has developed the online quiz, called the Cognitive Function Test, which it claims could help diagnose the most common form of dementia perhaps years earlier than it might normally be spotted.

Middleton tan boosts bronzing product sale

The Middleton women — Catherine, Pippa and mom Carole — and their skin tan have reportedly led to huge sales of body bronzing products in Britain after the royal wedding.

Liz Hurley TV hopes get the axe

Elizabeth Hurley’s villainous role in the new Wonder Woman TV pilot is now something the world, presumably, will never see.
US channel NBC has officially given the high-booted project the boot, after the pilot — which Liz had spent months filming — got the thumbs-down from test audiences, reports the Sun.

Galliano to stand trial on June 22

Designer John Galliano will stand trial on June 22 on charges of verbally abusing three people with anti-Semitic and racist slurs, said a Paris court.

‘Early HIV treatment makes virus 96% less infectious’

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In what could be called a key breakthrough in the fight against AIDS, scientists claim to have found that HIV carriers who start early treatment are 96 per cent less likely to infect the partner.

‘Lifelong training in music may keep you young’

It’s known that learning to play musical instruments make children smart and intelligent. Now, a new study has claimed it may also help people stay young.

British boy wears skirt to school in protest

A 12-year-old British boy wore a knee-length skirt to school in protest against a school uniform policy banning boys from donning shorts during warm weather, according to a report on Wednesday.

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Woman had sex with five schoolboys in view of passing trains

A 21-year-old woman in Britain, arrested for having sex with five schoolboys in full view of passing trains, had approached them and asked: "Do you want to have sex with me?"

Train passengers, who sa

Elizabeth II becomes second-longest reigning British monarch

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Queen Elizabeth II on Thursday became the second-longest reigning British monarch in 1,000 years.

The queen has been on the throne for 59 years and 110 days, a day longer than George III, the Daily E

Bin Laden wanted another 9/11-level attack to force US out of Middle East, says journal

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Al-Qaeda chief Osama Bin Laden's handwritten journal, which was seized by US Special Forces during the May 2 raid on his hideout in Pakistan’s Abbottabad city, reveals that he wanted another terror at

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