WASHINGTON – Sen. Barack Obama swept the Louisiana primary and caucuses in Nebraska and Washington state Saturday night, slicing into Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton’s slender delegate lead in their historic race for the Democratic presidential nomination.
The Illinois senator also won caucuses in the Virgin Islands, completing his best night of the campaign.
His winning margins were [...]

CAIRO, Egypt – An abandoned anchor was responsible for cutting one of the undersea Internet cables severed last week, causing disruptions across the Middle East and parts of Asia, the cable’s owner said Friday.
A FLAG Telecom repair crew discovered the anchor near where the fiber-optic cable was severed Feb. 1 in the Persian Gulf, 35 [...]

PARIS (AFP) – Scientists poring over a mass of studies into the response of pests to genetically-modified cotton say they have found the first confirmation that insects have developed resistance to transgenic crops.
University of Arizona entomologists looked at data from six experiments to monitor pests in fields sown with transgenic cotton and corn in Australia, [...]

PARIS (AFP) – France officially imposed Saturday a ban on a strain of genetically modified (GM) corn produced by the US agribusiness giant Monsanto, with the publication of an agriculture ministry order in the state’s official journal.
"The growing of corn seeds … derived from genetically modified corn strain MON810 is prohibited on [French] territory," read [...]

PHOENIX (AP) — A federal judge on Thursday upheld an Arizona law that prohibits businesses from knowingly hiring illegal immigrants and rescinds the business licenses of those that do.
The ruling by the judge, Neil V. Wake of Federal District Court, was a defeat for employers who argued that it was an unconstitutional effort by a [...]

SEATTLE – A distasteful comment about Chelsea Clinton by an MSNBC anchor could imperil Hillary Rodham Clinton’s participation in future presidential debates on the network, a Clinton spokesman said.
In a conference call with reporters, Clinton communications director Howard Wolfson on Friday excoriated MSNBC’s David Shuster for suggesting the Clinton campaign had "pimped out" 27-year old [...]

WASHINGTON – The popular anti-wrinkle drug Botox and a competitor have been linked to dangerous botulism symptoms in some users, cases so bad that a few children given the drugs for muscle spasms have died, the government warned Friday.
The Food and Drug Administration’s warning includes both Botox, a wrinkle-specific version called Botox Cosmetic, and its [...]

Anyone who has ever watched a frenetic toddler bouncing around a room has wondered if there might be some way to harvest all of that energy.
While no one has quite figured out how to bottle youthful exuberance, a team of Canadian and U.S. researchers has found a way to capture human energy so it could [...]

WASHINGTON (AFP) – Children lacking enough shut-eye face a greater risk of becoming obese than kids who get a good night’s sleep, according to a study released Thursday.
Each extra hour of sleep cuts a child’s risk of becoming overweight or obese by nine percent, according to an analysis of epidiomogical studies by researchers from Johns [...]

A diet low in carbohydrates but high in animal fat and protein doesn’t seem to increase the risk of type 2 diabetes in women, a new study claims.
"One study is never enough to change a recommendation, but this study is interesting in that it shows that a low-fat diet is no better than a low-carbohydrate [...]

NEW YORK – The World Health Organization warned in a new report Thursday that the "tobacco epidemic" is growing and could claim 1 billion lives by the end of the century unless governments dramatically step up efforts to curb smoking.
In its first comprehensive report on tobacco use in 179 countries, the U.N.s health agency said [...]

DOVER, Del. (AP) — Illinois Sen. Barack Obama got up close and personal with Delaware voters, and they responded by giving him a victory Tuesday over New York Sen. Hillary Clinton in Delaware’s Democratic primary.
On the Republican side, Sen. John McCain defeated Mitt Romney.
Obama’s victory came two days after he drew a crowd estimated at [...]

Colorado caucus-goers turned out in staggering numbers Tuesday, crowding elbow to elbow in schools, churches and libraries to deliver victories for Republican Mitt Romney and Democrat Barack Obama.
Initial tallies showed Romney, who had a campaign presence in Colorado for months, winning Colorado by a ratio of 3-to-2 over national front-runner John McCain. Obama, who made [...]

PHOENIX (AP) — John McCain’s difficult relationship with conservatives in his home state created an opening Tuesday for Mitt Romney, but in the end Romney’s strengths weren’t enough to make him the victor in Arizona’s Republican primary, according to preliminary results of an Associated Press exit poll.
Romney had strong support from Republicans who described themselves [...]

ANCHORAGE, Alaska: Barack Obama and Mitt Romney easily won Alaska’s caucuses on Tuesday, thanks to grass roots support in a state where voting was marked by subzero temperatures and overflowing crowds.
With 39 of 40 districts reporting, Obama was leading the Democratic race with 74 percent of the vote. Hillary Rodham Clinton had 25 percent.
On the [...]