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New Ebola trial vaccine 'safe': researchers

The latest in a string of candidate vaccines against the deadly Ebola virus was proven safe in an early trial in healthy adults in China, its developers said Wednesday. Dubbed Ad5-EBOV, the vaccine is the first based on the strain of the Ebola virus behind the west African outbreak, according to a paper published in The Lancet medical journal. “Up to now, all tested Ebola virus vaccines have been based

Lagerfeld’s Choupette leads trend as pets become brand representatives

Choupette stars in a calendar this year Millennials are well-known for their love of looking at pictures of cats on the Internet, but some luxury brands are beginning to take advantage of this and use the furry friends to market products. The best example of this is Choupette, Karl Lagerfeld’s white Birman cat, who became an Internet sensation after the designer adopted her from a friend in 2011, and who is

Wednesday, March 25: Today in Gold and Silver

NEW YORK (TheStreet) — Once again the gold price got sold down in Far East trading on their Tuesday morning, with the low tick, such as it was, coming somewhere during the Hong Kong lunch hour.  The subsequent rally got capped at 11 a.m. GMT in London—and from there it sold off until shortly after the equity markets opened in New York.  From that point gold rallied anew, before trading

Germanwings crash doesn't appear to be terror attack, White House: Fox News

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The crash of a Germanwings Airbus in a remote area of the French Alps on Tuesday does not appear to have been caused by a terror attack, the White House said, according to a report by Fox News. “There is no indication of a nexus to terrorism at this time,” the cable network quoted White House National Security Council spokeswoman Bernadette Meehan as saying. (Reporting by Timothy