PORT LOUIS - SCIENTISTS have found more than 200 new species of frogs in Madagascar but a political crisis is hurting conservation of the Indian Ocean island's unique wildlife, a study shows.
WASHINGTON - WHEN her husband shot her five years ago, Ms Connie Culp was left without a nose, a palate or lower eyelids, but on Tuesday she revealed her new face.
Ms Culp's was the world's first near-total facial transplant and the fourth known facial transplant to have been successfully performed to date.
NEW YORK - THE dispatch in the spring of 1918 from the Spanish news agency noted only 'a strange form of disease.' Madrid residents were coughing, had fever and breathing difficulties.
However, the report reassured: 'the epidemic is of a mild nature.' By late summer, they were dying. And by autumn, what became known as the Spanish influenza - or the 'Spanish lady' in the United States - became the deadliest recorded pandemic of all time, with 20 to 50 million deaths worldwide.
WASHINGTON - THE US military is developing plans for a new cyber command at an Army facility north of Washington to coordinate digital warfare, but difficult challenges lie ahead as federal agencies try to work with industry to protect critical computer networks nationwide, military officials said on Tuesday.
Lieutenant-General Keith Alexander, director of the National Security Agency, said the United States is determined to lead the global effort to use computer technology to deter or defeat enemies, while protecting the public's constitutional rights.
