U.S. Army soldiers attached to 2nd platoon, C troop, 1st Squadron (Airborne), 91st U.S Cavalry Regiment, 173rd Airborne Brigade Combat Team protect a wounded comrade from dust and smoke flares after an Improvised Explosive Device blast during a patrol near Baraki Barak base in Logar Province in Afghanistan, Oct. 13, 2012. (Munir Uz Zaman/AFP/Getty Images) A milestone was reached in Afghanistan Wednesday that has not happened in six years: 30 days without a U.S. military fatality. It is the longest gap between U.S. military fatalities in Afghanistan since February and March of 2007, when there was a similar 30 day… Original post on abcnews.go.com Comments on reddit.com
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CHICAGO (AP) — Drug overdose deaths rose for the 11th straight year, federal data show, and most of them were accidents involving addictive painkillers despite growing attention to risks from these medicines.In 2010, there were 38,329 drug overdose deaths nationwide, according to a new report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Medication, mostly prescription drugs, was involved in nearly 60 percent of overdose deaths that year, overshadowing deaths from illicit narcotics. 
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Alcohol contributes to approximately 3.5 percent of cancer deaths. 
A man burns himself to death outside a job centre in France after being declared ineligible for unemployment benefit. 
The Saudi royal family has intervened to block the release of a ‘celebrity’ preacher accused of raping, torturing and killing his five-year-old daughter. 
An Alvin father remained in the Brazoria County Jail Monday, charged with murder in the alleged revenge killing of a drunk driver who plowed into his truck, killing his two young sons last December. David Barajas Sr., 31, a construction worker, is being held in lieu of $450,000 bail in the fatal shooting of 20-year-old Jose Inez Banda minutes after the Dec. 7 crash that claimed the lives of Barajas’ 11- and 12-year-old sons. Tests showed Banda’s blood alcohol was twice the legal limit when his Chevrolet Malibu rear-ended the Barajas’ family’s Ford 250 truck that had run out of gas on an unlit county road near Alvin, investigators said. Several minutes after the crash, 911 operators began receiving phone calls about the accident and recorded a sound of gunfire. During a two-month investigation, authorities located a witness who reported seeing David Barajas walk from the crash scene to his nearby home and return to Banda’s car, after which the witness heard gunshots. Felicia, Banda’s wife, now raising their infant daughter alone, posted several comments just before the murder indictment was announced. The Facebook page earlier had been a battleground, with angry postings by supporters of Banda, who complained of a vigilante killing, and supporters of Barajas, who described the boys’ deaths as murders. 
Before penicillin was found to be effective against syphilis during World War II, sex brought with it the risk of syphilis, an disease that can cause blindness, dementia and paralysis. An economist argues that treatment was a key factor in the sexual revolution. 
But, according to the authorities, it’s definitely not a racist phenomenon. 
Officials from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention were not alarmed, urging Americans to continue to get flu shots, which they acknowledged were not completely effective. 
Saudi Arabia beheaded a Sri Lankan maid convicted of smothering an infant child, despite her being aged just 17 at the time of the offence 
Five killers carried out the ‘extraordinarily callous, violent and brutal’ murder of a teenager after the sister of one wrongly claimed he had raped her, a court heard today. 
An anonymous blogger and whistleblower who is reportedly under investigation in Israel for publishing classified military information has volunteered to turn himself in if the Israeli Defense… 
Six men could face the death penalty if they are convicted of the murder of a woman who died after being gang raped on a bus. 
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AbstractObjectives To explore the extent to which muscular strength in adolescence is associated with all cause and cause specific premature mortality (<55 years).Design Prospective cohort study.Setting Sweden.Participants 1 142 599 Swedish male adolescents aged 16-19 years were followed over a period of 24 years.Main outcome measures Baseline examinations included knee extension, handgrip, and elbow flexion strength tests, as well as measures of diastolic and systolic blood pressure and body mass index. Cox regression was used to estimate hazard ratios for mortality according to muscular strength categories (tenths).Results During a median follow-up period of 24 years, 26 145 participants died. Suicide was a more frequent cause of death in young adulthood (22.3%) than was cardiovascular diseases (7.8%) or cancer (14.9%). High muscular strength in adolescence, as assessed by knee extension and handgrip tests, was associated with a 20-35% lower risk of premature mortality due to any cause or cardiovascular disease, independently of body mass index or blood pressure; no association was observed with mortality due to cancer. Stronger adolescents had a 20-30% lower risk of death from suicide and were 15-65% less likely to have any psychiatric diagnosis (such as schizophrenia and mood disorders). Adolescents in the lowest tenth of muscular strength showed by far the highest risk of mortality for different causes. All cause mortality rates (per 100 000 person years) ranged between 122.3 and 86.9 for the weakest and strongest adolescents; corresponding figures were 9.5 and 5.6 for mortality due to cardiovascular diseases and 24.6 and 16.9 for mortality due to suicide.Conclusions Low muscular strength in adolescents is an emerging risk factor for major causes of death in young adulthood, such as suicide and cardiovascular diseases. The effect size observed for all cause mortality was equivalent to that for well established risk factors such as elevated body mass index or blood pressure. 
Man was suspected of burning copies of Holy Quran at mosque in Dadu. 
Maria Santos Gorrostieta, who had already survived two assassination attempts, was driving the child to school at around 8.30am when she was ambushed by a car in the city of Morelia.