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A transparent zebrafish has been engineered to allow scientists to watch how cancers develop and behave inside the body in real time.

CLAREMONT - Fliers distributed last week for a party at Claremont McKenna College were denounced as “racist and sexist” by Scripps College Dean of Students Debra Wood in an e-mail sent to Scripps students.

TEHRAN — A young Iranian man has been sentenced to hang for repeatedly drinking alcohol which is strictly banned in the Islamic republic, the Etemad newspaper reported on Wednesday.

Thane Heins is nervous and hopeful. It’s Jan. 24, a Thursday afternoon, and in four days the Ottawa-area native will travel to Boston where he’ll demonstrate an invention that appears – though he doesn’t dare say it – to operate as a perpetual motion machine.

A Greenpeace activist was arrested today for peacefully protesting the Bush Administration’s delay in issuing a final Endangered Species Act listing for the polar bear due to global warming. The activist, dressed in a polar bear suit, initiated a vigil by sitting in a paddleboat in a park pond in front of the Department of Interior.

LUDWIGSHAFEN, Germany (CNN) — Kamil Kaplan faced a horrifying decision as flames engulfed his apartment building: Does he drop his 9-month-old nephew four stories to a policeman or hope the baby boy survives the suffocating smoke?

NAIROBI, Kenya — Former U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan may walk away from Kenya’s peace talks after his security detail discovered his hotel room in Nairobi was bugged, according to a report.

A Pakistani Taliban commander blamed for the murder of former premier Benazir Bhutto has declared an indefinite ceasefire with government forces, a militant spokesman said Wednesday.

The US may use the controversial interrogation technique known as waterboarding in the future if a terrorist attack was thought to be imminent, the White House has said.

JERUSALEM - A rocket fired from Gaza Wednesday wounded two young sisters as they played outside their home, Israel’s air force attacked Gaza militants and a top Israeli Cabinet Minister declared an all-front war on Hamas — rapid-fire incidents that threatened to bury U.S.-led Mideast peace efforts.

Politicians using tragedy to advance an agenda has been a tried-and-true strategy. Paint the idea green and a natural catastrophe became political fodder for former Democratic presidential nominee Sen. John Kerry (Mass.).

Technically, it only took three weeks of intensive “restoration” a full year ago to make Ted Haggard a “complete heterosexual.” But on Tuesday night, the new pastor of the Colorado Springs megachurch that Haggard founded has announced that Haggard is quitting the team — and that “the process of restoring Ted Haggard is incomplete.”

Dethroned Miss Nevada USA Katie Rees was arrested Wednesday in connection with the assault of a police officer, FOX5Vegas.com reports.

British scientists claimed to have created human embryos using DNA from two women and one man. Initially, the nucleic acids of a man and a woman were combined and the resulting embryo was then shifted into the egg of another woman.

A 37-year-old American businesswoman and married mother of three is seeking justice after she was thrown in jail by Saudi Arabia’s religious police for sitting with a male colleague at a Starbucks coffee shop in Riyadh.