A gunman shot and killed two people in northern Bavaria on Friday and was later captured, German police said. “Thanks to the courageous intervention of these employees, the perpetrator was able to be stopped,” Joachim Hermann, Bavaria’s interior minister, told a news conference.
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NEW YORK (AP) — U.S. stocks are posting solid gains in midday trading as Greece moves closer to sealing a deal for new loans from its creditors.
FOUGERES, France (AP) — British rider Mark Cavendish won the sun-soaked seventh stage of the Tour de France in a sprint finish on Friday, while countryman Chris Froome retained the overall lead as he bids to win the race for a second time.
SANTA CRUZ, Bolivia (AP) — Pope Francis urged inmates at Bolivia’s notoriously violent Palmasola prison to not despair on Friday as he wrapped up his visit to Bolivia with a message of hope and solidarity for those caught up in Bolivia’s corrupt law enforcement system.
The governor relegates the banner to the state’s “relic room,” more than 50 years after the rebel banner began flying at the Statehouse to protest the civil rights movement.
WASHINGTON (AP) — Urged on by the medical industry and patients’ groups, the House overwhelmingly approved a bipartisan bill that would speed federal approval of drugs and medical devices and boost biomedical research.
Britain said on Friday a suspected case of avian flu had been reported at a poultry farm in northern England, but the risk to public health was very low and it posed no food safety concerns. “We have taken swift precautionary action to limit the risk of disease spreading,” said Britain’s chief vet, Nigel Gibbens. “These measures to control the movement of poultry and humanely cull birds at the farm
(Reuters) – The U.S. food and Drug Administration said it was strengthening an existing warning label that non-aspirin, non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) increase the chance of a heart attack or stroke. NSAIDs are used to treat pain and fever from medical conditions such as arthritis, menstrual cramps, headaches, colds, and the flu, and some of the better-known medicines on the market include ibuprofen, naproxen, diclofenac and celecoxib, all of which
A sweeping government study of thousands of women has found links between the older antidepressants Prozac and Paxil and birth defects, but has cleared other popular treatments in the class, including Celexa, Lexapro and Pfizer’s Zoloft, which is the subject of a major lawsuit over birth defect claims. Earlier studies had raised questions about antidepressants in a class of drugs known as Selective Serotonin Reuptake Inhibitors or SSRIs, prompting the
