Tests on two distinct genes were highly accurate in distinguishing between tumours and benign polyps - growths in the bowel that can become cancerous. [...]

 

2012 presidential candidates could have one more challenge to getting their name on the ballot: proving to Arizona’s secretary of state that they are natural-born U.S. citizens. [...]

 

Startup incubator TechStars has raised $8 million in new funding for its programs in Boston, Boulder, New York, and Seattle. The new funding comes from more than fifty venture funds and over 25 individual angel investors. This brings the incubator’s total funding to nearly $11.5 million. [...]

 

Lib Dem MP Norman Lamb said the plans posed a major "financial risk" to the NHS and patient care could suffer. [...]

 

IN IRELAND a bail-out by the euro zone’s rescue fund helped force the government to call (and lose) an early election. In Portugal an early election may force the government to accept a bail-out. The question is: which government? [...]

 

Madison - A new standoff is shaping up at the Capitol Thursday, as protesters inside sit in front of the doors to the state Assembly and Gov. Scott Walker's administration has closed the building to the public. [...]

 

OMAHA, Neb. – A Nebraska judge's unusual decision to threaten an alleged sexual assault victim with jail if she doesn't testify could backfire and discourage other women from reporting they were raped, victim advocates said Thursday. [...]

 

Police in South Korea have raided local offices of Google Incorporated in what they say is a search for evidence that Google's mobile advertising arm has been illegally collecting private data.Police said members of their cyber unit conducted the raid Tuesday. They carried away hard drives and other equipment related to Google's AdMob unit, which is suspected of collecting personal location information without authority or permission.The probe is not directly related to a previous investigation of Google in South Korea. That probe concerned the incidental collection of personal data while Google cars were cruising through neighborhoods and taking photographs for the company's Street View service.Google officials say they are cooperating with the latest investigation, which comes amid rising concern that Apple and other mobile telephone producers are saving data on users' personal movements for advertising purposes. [...]

 

President Barack Obama plans to announce his reelection campaign early next week in an electronic message to grassroots supporters, Democratic sources tell POLITICO. [...]

 

BREAKFAST eaters around the country are photographing their bowls of cereal, plates of eggs and assorted pastries, not out of a personal obsession with food but for a more wholesome reason: giving breakfast to children in need. [...]