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Charlotte to host 2017 NBA All-Star Game

The 2017 NBA All-Star game will be played in Charlotte, North Carolina, for the second time, it was revealed on Tuesday. The decade-old, $260 million (232 million euros) home arena for the NBA’s Charlotte Hornets will seat 20,000 for the 66th showdown of elite NBA stars on February 19, 2017. Charlotte previously hosted the NBA All-Star Game in 1991, when the Eastern Conference edged the Western Conference 116-114 behind 26

France carries out first 'ceramic sternum' transplant

French doctors have successfully carried out the world’s first transplant of a ceramic sternum, the product’s makers said on Tuesday. The operation was carried out on March 19 at the University Hospital Centre in Limoges, central France, on a woman in her fifties who had been diagnosed with cancer, I.CERAM said.

NY fines liquid nicotine makers for not child-proofing packages

By Katie Reilly NEW YORK (Reuters) – New York has fined four makers of liquid nicotine used in electronic cigarettes over packaging that was too easy for children to open, in violation of a law enacted last year after a toddler died from ingesting the substance, the state’s top prosecutor said on Tuesday. New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman announced a settlement with four companies selling liquid nicotine products online