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Jolie has double mastectomy, fearing breast cancer
LOS ANGELES — American actress Angelina Jolie has revealed that she recently underwent a double mastectomy as a preventative measure against breast cancer.
Taking a chance on polytechnic education
SINGAPORE — She could have gone to a junior college after completing her O-Levels in 2010, but against the wishes of her parents, Ms Teng Zi Ying (picture) chose to pursue a...
NTU builds its first overseas water treatment plant
SINGAPORE — A water treatment plant that requires just one person to operate it will supply cleaner and cheaper potable water in Vietnam at only two-thirds of current prices...
New walking aid gives seniors a leg up
SINGAPORE — For some seniors, using the conventional walking frame is both strenuous and cumbersome as they have to lift it with each step they take.
Spacewalk fixes ISS leak - for now
CAPE CANAVERAL (Florida) — Astronauts making a rare, hastily planned spacewalk replaced a pump outside the International Space Station on Saturday in hopes of plugging a serious...
London Zoo seeks female mate for near-extinct fish
LONDON - The London Zoo is urgently seeking a female mate for the last-known males of a critically endangered fish species.
Spacewalk planned to fix ammonia leak on space station
WASHINGTON - NASA plans to send two astronauts aboard the International Space Station out on a spacewalk today (May 11) to try to fix an ammonia leak in a cooling system on one...
Carbon dioxide levels hit troubling milestone, scientists say
WASHINGTON - Worldwide levels of the chief greenhouse gas that causes global warming have hit a milestone, reaching an amount never before encountered by humans, federal...
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