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Goodbye console? Google launches game-streaming platform

Google on Tuesday unveiled a video-game streaming platform called Stadia, positioning itself to take on the traditional ...

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Smoking strong pot daily raises psychosis risk, study finds

Smoking high-potency marijuana every day could increase the chances of developing psychosis by nearly five times, according ...

UN: Gene editing for human reproduction is 'irresponsible'

A panel convened by the World Health Organization said it would be "irresponsible" for scientists to use gene editing for ...

EU check of Polish slaughterhouses finds document issues

European Commission veterinary inspectors have uncovered document irregularities at slaughterhouses in Poland, but found no ...

Italy probes possible poisoning of anti-Berlusconi witness

Italy prosecutors have opened an investigation into the possible poisoning death of a Moroccan model who was a key witness ...

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Rory McIlroy blames PGA Tour for slow play 'epidemic'

Rory McIlroy says slow play on the PGA Tour has become an epidemic. McIlroy and playing partners Phil Mickelson and Matt ...

Mystery infections traced to blood-shedding religious ritual

Add self-flagellation to the list of ways to get a dangerous viral blood infection. Researchers said Wednesday that they were ...

Expert urges UN remedies for lead poisoning victims

A human rights expert on Wednesday urged the United Nations to take "immediate action" to provide justice and remedies to ...

Autopsy: Tourist died of traumatic brain injury in Guatemala

An English tourist whose body was found near a Guatemala highland lake popular with travelers died of hemorrhaging resulting ...

Passengers, crew on Virgin flight quarantined in UK

All passengers and crew on a charter flight from Barbados to London were briefly put into quarantine because of widespread ...

Switzerland mulls studies on legal sale of cannabis

Switzerland's government is taking steps to allow limited studies on the legal sale of cannabis — though any liberalization ...

Croatia's top oyster farmers in alarm after norovirus found

Oyster farming is the pride of this small town in the south of Croatia's Adriatic Sea coast. But tasting the famed local ...

Venezuela buckles under massive power, communications outage

Venezuela's worst power and communications outage on Friday deepened a sense of isolation and decay, endangering hospital ...

European police seize illicit medicines worth $185 million

The European Union's police agency says law enforcement authorities seized illegally trafficked medicines last year worth ...

EU Court says public must have access to weed killer studies

An EU high court says that the European Food Safety Authority should not have refused the public access to studies on the ...

Government calls Norway's dropping birth rate a problem

Norway's statistical agency says it has recorded the lowest number of newborns since it started counting in the 19th century, ...

London man seems to be free of HIV in second such case

A London man appears to be free of the virus that causes AIDS after a stem cell transplant, the second success including the ...

German hospital luring Brexit-worried Polish nurses from UK

Worried about Brexit? Come to Germany where you get better salaries, better weather, tastier food — and a shorter trip for ...

Germany's Bayer vows strong defense in Roundup cancer cases

Germany's Bayer AG, which bought Monsanto Co. last year, has underlined its determination to fight cases involving the ...

Russia accuses UK of denying access to ex-spy and daughter

Russia accused Britain on Monday of refusing to allow access to Russian ex-spy Sergei Skripal and his daughter in violation ...