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– Tue Jan 18, 12:14 pm ET LONDON (Reuters) – Sherlock Holmes is to be brought back to life in the first new novel about the great Baker Street detective to be officially approved. Anthony Horowitz, author of stories about teenage spy Alex Rider, has been chosen by Arthur Conan Doyle's...

– Tue Jan 18, 2:01 pm ET ATHENS (Reuters) – A Cypriot monk caught at a Greek airport with the skeletal remains of a nun in his baggage on the weekend told authorities he was taking the relics of a saint back to his monastery. The 56-year-old Cypriot was detained at Athens airport on Sunday...

By Jesse J. Holland, Associated Press – Tue Jan 18, 11:20 am ET WASHINGTON – Missing a plane connection cost Utah gun owner Greg Revell 10 days in jail after he was stranded in New Jersey with an unloaded firearm he had legally checked with his luggage in Salt Lake City. Nevertheless...

AP Tuesday Jan 18 WASHINGTON – The Supreme Court will decide whether to allow California to reduce its Medicaid payments to help close its massive budget gap. The high court on Tuesday decided to hear an appeal from state officials. Lower courts stopped California from enacting a 10...

By ANDREW WELSH-HUGGINS, AP Legal Affairs Writer – 1 hr 44 mins ago COLUMBUS, Ohio – An Ohio Supreme Court justice who helped write the state's death penalty law three decades ago is calling for an end to capital punishment in the state. Justice Paul Pfeifer was one of the leading...

AP Jan 18 A letter to Ireland's Roman Catholic bishops has been revealed by the broadcaster RTE that contradicts the Vatican's frequent claim it has never instructed clergy to withhold evidence or suspicion of child abuse from police. The 1997 letter documents rejection of a 1996 Irish...

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Independent Jan 17 Ancient weather records, including details gleaned from monks' diaries, are helping scientists work out how and why climates have changed over the past 500 years. Researchers found the historic data, from the likes of weather station archives and harvest records...

AOL Waterproof Notepad Helps You Record Ideas in the Shower (E.L.) or ......something else to do instead of changing the shower head :D Some people do their best scrubbing in the shower; others do their best thinking. Just ask Mark Knudsen, a Michigan-based, self-professed "shower...

So what would happen to a patient if there were no known relatives/friends?

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Shorty to Cleveland OH yesterday - waiting for that load to take us South so we can go home for a little break - been out since November :D

Telegraph Jan 17 A cat has been summoned to do jury service, even after his owners told the court he was "unable to speak and understand English". Anna Esposito, wrote to Suffolk Court in Boston, US, to explain that a mistake had been made, but a jury commissioner replied saying the...

BBC News Jan 17 Researchers in the United States say they have uncovered tentative evidence of a genetic component to friendship. Using data from two independent studies, they found carriers of one gene associated with alcoholism tended to stick together. However, people with another...

BBC News Jan 17 The husband of US Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords, who was shot in the head in an attack in Tucson, Arizona, says she is making good progress. Mark Kelly told US network ABC his wife had insisted on giving him a neck massage from her hospital bed. On Sunday, hospital...

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Nice one .... we are still at Monroe (63 hours now)

Now before anyone lynches me :eek: ........this was a survey done by 47 UK specialists, with the analysis written by Iwan Morgan (Director of the United States Presidency Centre) I thought you might find it interesting or just good for a laugh :p A New Survey of US Presidents...

Not so my friend ... Neanderthals evolved from early Homo along a path similar to Homo sapiens, both deriving from a chimp-like ancestor between five and 10 million years ago. Like H. sapiens, Neanderthals are related to Australopithecus, Homo habilis, and Homo ergaster; the exact descent...

BBC News Jan 17 Israeli Defence Minister Ehud Barak - a key minister of the coalition government - is resigning from the Labour party to form his own faction, Labor officials say. Mr Barak is leading a breakaway group including four other Labor parliamentarians, reports say. It remains...