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  Fatty tissue found in obese people’s lungs

  New Age Online. BBC | Updated at 02:34pm on October 18, 2019

  A group of Australian researchers have found fatty tissue in the lungs of overweight and obese people for the first time ever. They analysed lung...

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  Mini human brains develop slower than other primates

  New Age. BBC | Updated at 01:02pm on October 18, 2019

  Human ‘mini-brains’ develop more slowly than those of other primates, shows a recent Swiss research. ‘Mini-brains’ are miniature collections of cells that allow scientists to...

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  Mutant malaria parasite jumps from gorilla to humans

  New Age Desk . BBC | Updated at 12:33pm on October 18, 2019

  Scientists have identified a rare sequence of events that allowed a deadly type of malaria in African great apes to jump species and infect humans....

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  Yemen crisis: 85,000 children 'dead from malnutrition'

  BBC | Updated at 01:24pm on November 21, 2018

  An estimated 85,000 children under the age of five may have died from acute malnutrition in three years of war in Yemen, a leading charity...

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  UK MPs call for social media regulation

  BBC | Updated at 08:58am on July 28, 2018

  The UK faces a ‘democratic crisis’ due to the spread of ‘pernicious views’ and the manipulation of personal data, a parliamentary committee is set to...

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  First malaria drug in 60 years given approval

  BBC | Updated at 12:10pm on July 23, 2018

  A drug to treat malaria - the first such pill to get approval in 60 years - has been given the green light by authorities...

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  WhatsApp ‘child kidnap’ rumours claim two more lives

  BBC | Updated at 05:15pm on June 11, 2018

  Indian police have arrested 16 people after two men became the latest victims of hysteria over WhatsApp rumours of child kidnappers...

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  Third teenager raped, burnt alive in a week in India

  BBC | Updated at 09:15am on May 12, 2018

  A teenage girl in India has been raped and burned alive by her attacker - the third instance of such an attack in the same...

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  US resurrects Second Fleet to counter Russia

  BBC | Updated at 04:20pm on May 05, 2018

  The US Navy has said it will re-establish its Second Fleet, as Russia becomes more assertive. Chief of Naval Operations Admiral John Richardson said the...

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  Peru child sacrifice discovery may be largest in history

  BBC | Updated at 09:53am on April 28, 2018

  Archaeologists have uncovered what may be the largest single mass child sacrifice event in human history. More than 140 children were sacrificed at about the...