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BEIJING – Bacteria-contaminated herbal injections caused the deaths of three patients in southwestern China, state media reported Tuesday. Tests on samples of a ginsing injection used on heart patients showed the product had been “tainted by bacteria,” the State Food and Drug Administration and Ministry of Health said in a …

SALT LAKE CITY – A judge denied on Thursday the state’s request to forcibly medicate the man charged in the 2002 kidnapping of Elizabeth Smart. Third District Judge Judith Atherton said in the ruling that she is not convinced anti-psychotic medication would restore Brian David Mitchell’s competency. Mitchell, who is …

Heather Mills has blown more than $10 million of her huge divorce settlement from Paul McCartney in only seven months, The Sun is reporting. She spent the dosh on plush properties, lavish holidays and a staff wages bill of $ 800,000. The former porn star — dubbed Mucca — was …

MOSCOW – A submarine-launched ballistic missile has made a record flight, hitting a target in the middle of the Pacific Ocean for the first time, Russian officials said Saturday. President Dmitry Medvedev witnessed the test, part of naval exercises being staged in the northern Barents Sea. Russian TV showed what …

AMSTERDAM, Netherlands – A Dutch company looking for ways to reduce the environmental costs of printing has developed a new font that it says cuts ink usage by about 15 percent. In essence, the “Ecofont” has little holes in the letters. Spranq, the Utrecht-based marketing and communications company that designed …

NEW YORK – Healthy people should have the right to boost their brains with pills, like those prescribed for hyperactive children or memory-impaired older folks, several scientists contend in a provocative commentary. College students are already illegally taking prescription stimulants like Ritalin to help them study, and demand for such …

LAKE DELTON, Wis. – The road is back. The shoreline is reinforced. The dam is stronger. And maybe the dollar signs won’t be far behind. The three dozen or so resort and restaurant owners that ring this south-central Wisconsin tourist village’s namesake lake have been wringing their hands since heavy …

All Bernard Madoff needed was two friends. But the alleged perpetrator of one of the biggest Ponzi schemes in history couldn’t find two pals to guarantee his $10 million bail on Wednesday, so the judge in his case added a raft of new bail provisions to keep the former Wall …

MUMBAI, India – The Jewish center devastated in the Mumbai attacks will be quickly rebuilt, but with beefed up security, the rabbi sent to replace the center’s slain leader said Tuesday. Chabad house was one of several place captured by suspected Islamic gunmen in the Nov. 26 attacks that killed …

PALM BAY, Fla. – Police in Florida say a 16-year-old boy slashed a woman to death and used the $6 he stole from her to buy beer. Alan Michael Tanguay is facing a first-degree murder charge in the death of 58-year-old Patricia Kaliszeski in Palm Bay, about 55 miles southeast …