Diane Alter – AHN News Reporter London, England, United Kingdom (AHN) – Age related memory loss is widely believed to begin around the age of 60, but new research shows that memory and other mental declines may often begin years earlier. A new British study is the first to attempt to track cognitive skills among [...]
Diane Alter – AHN News Reporter Cincinnati, OH, United States (AHN) – Most children attending preschools and nursery schools, and spending time at child care centers, are not getting enough playtime outside, and are spending too much time on sedentary activities, a new study shows. According to researchers at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center, reasons [...]
New York, NY, United States (IRIN) – Severe drought, exacerbated by poverty and conflict, hit at least four countries in 2011 — Djibouti, Ethiopia, Kenya and Somalia — displacing hundreds of thousands of people. Thousands in Somalia and Ethiopia began the year by making the dangerous journey to Yemen. Others from these two countries headed [...]
Diane Alter – AHN News Reporter Los Angeles, CA, United States (AHN) – If you thought the Kim Kardashian-Kris Humphries marriage and divorce was quick, nothing compares to Sinead O’Connor’s latest marriage and spilt. Just 16 days after O’Connor and Barry Herridge said “I do,” the couple said, “I don’t.” The British “Nothing Compares 2 [...]
The Media Line Staff Gaza City, Palestinian Territory Omar Ghraieb (The Media – The Gaza Strip is all abuzz about a grisly murder of an elderly couple in a story that brings together drugs, money, the dangers of leaving home and family, and a desperate escape by tunnel to Egypt. It’s the routine stuff of [...]
Diane Alter – AHN News Reporter Charlotte, NC, United States (AHN) – Nearly one in three people will be arrested by the time they reach the age of 23, a new study shows. Criminologists from the University of North Carolina-Charlotte say that the study shows that “arrest is a pretty common experience.” The study, to [...]
Diane Alter – AHN News Reporter Washington, D.C., United States (AHN) – The number of new death sentences in the United States fell to its lowest level in 35 years in 2011 thanks to a sharp decline in violent crimes, the high cost of pursing executions, and shifts in state sentencing laws. In 2011, 75 [...]
Kris Alingod – AHN News Contributor San Francisco, CA, United States (AHN) – Proponents and opponents of Proposition 8, California’s ban on same-sex marriage, sought to sway the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit on Thursday about whether to vacate a ruling declaring the law unconstitutional. Gay advocates also want videos of the [...]
Diane Alter – AHN News Reporter Washington, DC, DC, United States (AHN) – The Food and Drug Administration has been overruled by the Obama administration in its efforts to allow teenage girls to buy the emergency contraceptive Plan B without a prescription. The FDA had sought to allow Teva’s Plan B to be sold without [...]
Tom Ramstack – AHN News Legal Correspondent Washington, DC, United States (AHN) – The Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe warned on Friday about an alarming rise in anti-Semitism in European countries in the past three years. The organization held a conference in Washington, D.C., to discuss an increase in hate crimes that appears [...]
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