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New Scanner to Image Entire Body, Better Target Diseases

Deborah Block November 18, 2015 A new full body PET scanner is being developed that could revolutionize how scientists see the inner workings of the human body, possibly leading to the development of better and safer drugs to target diseases such as cancer, heart disease and brain disorders. Unlike X-rays and MRI’s, which provide images […]Load more...

Entretenimiento

Eagles of Death Metal Home Safe From Paris

VOA News November 18, 2015 Members of the band Eagles of Death Metal are safely home in the United States after last Friday’s Paris attacks and, as they said in a statement, are «still trying to come to terms with what happened.» The California band had just taken the stage at the Bataclan concert hall […]Load more...

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Football Star David Beckham is People Magazine’s ‘Sexiest Man Alive

Associated Press November 18, 2015 LOS ANGELES—British soccer star David Beckham has been an international sex symbol for nearly two decades, but he says he’s still flattered to be namedPeople magazine’s 30th-anniversary Sexiest Man Alive. «t’s a huge honor,» the 40-year-old Beckham told the magazine, which announced its choice on ABC’s «Jimmy Kimmel Live» on Tuesday night. «I’m […]Load more...

Noticias del mundo

Suspected Paris Attack Planner Has Proved Elusive

VOA News Last updated on: November 18, 2015 2:23 PM The Paris prosecutor said Wednesday it remains unclear whether the suspected «mastermind» of last week’s terrorist attacks was killed at the suburban Paris apartment building police raided in the pre-dawn hours in the belief he was holed up there. Police stormed the apartment building in […]Load more...

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IS: Soda Can Bomb Took Down Russian Jetliner

Ken Bredemeier Last updated on: November 18, 2015 12:18 PM The Islamic State group has released a photo of what it claims is the bomb that took down a Russian jetliner over Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula last month and says it targeted the plane because of Moscow’s aerial bombardment in Syria. The photo, appearing on the […]Load more...

LPR Red de deportes

Raimondo Works to Spark Innovation Economy

Rhode Island offers companies access to research and development and other partners to help them grow   PROVIDENCE, R.I. – Governor Gina M. Raimondo, with Secretary of Commerce Stefan Pryor, today launched three new innovation-focused incentive programs aimed at jumpstarting Rhode Island’s economy. Applications for the Innovation Vouchers, Industry Cluster Grants and Innovation Network Matching Grants […]Load more...

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Seeds of Jihad Planted in the Balkans

Jeff Swicord November 17, 2015 SARAJEVO, BOSNIA-HERZEGOVINA—Editor’s note: VOA’s Jeff Swicord visited Bosnia and Herzegovina and Kosovo to examine radical extremism in the Balkans. This is the second of three parts.In September 1993, a battalion of foreign Islamic fighters overran a village near the Croat-held town of Vitez in central Bosnia-Herzegovina. They rounded up the […]Load more...

LPR Red de deportes

Police Made an Arrest in Connection of the Pregnant Woman

Cranston – Firefighters found the body of 32-year-old Aliss Collins Friday night inside a third-floor apartment on Marcy Street. Collins and her unborn child were pronounced dead at a hospital. The Rhode Island Department of Health revealed Wednesday that Collins died from multiple blunt force trauma head injuries, along with smoke inhalation and carbon monoxide […]Load more...