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Two new techniques to preserve and transplant ovaries might give women a better chance to fight their biological clocks and have children when they are older, doctors announced Monday. In the past, scientists have performed ovarian transplants in women with cancer, since chemotherapy often causes infertility. Doctors typically take out …

In soft sandstone on a New Zealand beach lie a series of very heavy footprints — the first evidence of dinosaur activity on the island. The prints were probably made by large, plant-eating sauropods between 6 and 18 feet long, creatures that would have weighed several tons. The discovery was …

So, Wednesday night, everyone had a State of the Union drinking game. Mine? Once Obama started talking, I drank. See, to me, the speech was like one of those “serious” high school assemblies: you know, when a teacher finds out about a student defacing a locker with unicorn stickers, she …

Under pressure from the big record labels, several countries around the world are cracking down hard on illegal file-sharers with a “three strikes, you’re out” policy — and the United States may be next. The basics are simple: Get caught three times sharing files illegally, and your Internet access gets …

Where else but Florida could a place like Jimbo’s exist? It’s a Miami bait shack – emphasis on “shack” – a few miles from downtown but with an isolated island feel and a diverse mix of customers. Beer is self-serve and the 82-year-old owner watches over the activity in a …

MEXICO CITY – First local police in Monterrey lost their assault rifles after an armed confrontation with federal agents while protesting the arrest of cops for alleged gang ties. Now officers in Mexico’s third-largest city will be stripped of cell phones. The legislature in Nuevo Leon state, where Monterrey is …

TOKYO – North Korea may fire a long-range ballistic missile toward Hawaii in early July, a Japanese news report said Thursday, as Russia and China urged the regime to return to international disarmament talks on its rogue nuclear program. The missile, believed to be a Taepodong-2 with a range of …

ISLAMABAD – Pakistan ordered its army to go after the country’s top Taliban commander, a feared Al Qaeda-allied militant whose remote stronghold could prove a difficult test for troops but whose demise would remove a major threat to the country’s stability. The announcement Sunday of the operation in South Waziristan, …

Key dates in the case of John Demjanjuk: — 1920: Born in Ukraine. — 1942: Captured by German forces while serving in the Soviet Red Army. — 1952: Demjanjuk emigrates to the U.S., claims to have spent much of World War II in a German prisoner of war camp. — …

BAGHDAD – A stepped-up campaign by Iraq’s prime minister against Saddam Hussein loyalists is alienating Sunni Muslims and stoking tensions between them and the majority Shiites ahead of key national elections. In its latest anti-Baathist attack, Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki’s Shiite-dominated government put three men on state television Sunday to …