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* Haiti struck by earthquake, cholera epidemic in 2010 * Nepalese peacekeepers operated in central Haiti [More]

NEW YORK (Reuters) - New York state Governor Andrew Cuomo is expected to lift a moratorium on the controversial natural gas extraction technique known as hydraulic fracturing, The New York Times reported on Thursday. Such a move could open the state to a gas drilling boom similar to what is happening in neighboring Pennsylvania, and it would certainly raise opposition from environmentalists who believe "fracking" or "hydrofracking" pollutes drinking water.

Whoops. Diet soda might have no calories, but that doesn't keep it from growing your waistline. A new study finds that diet drinkers might be even worse off than regular soda drinkers.

While it's a disease that only sickens animals, its effects have been felt for centuries, and its elimination could mean wonders for the developing world. One of the greatest scourges of human history is no more

The tableau is common enough these days: after a miscalculated meal, snack or sip, a parent rummages frantically for an EpiPen or antihistamine as a swollen-mouthed child sits, frightened, possibly gasping for breath. [More]

...now what? What's behind Google's slow-launch approach, plus, what's irking the Twitterati about the search giant's social network (hint: everything). The first formal reviews of Google+, the social-network-news-feed-video-chat hybrid, are in

Smokers in txt2stop program were twice as likely to quit than counterparts

We're all told to jazz up our passwords with non-alphanumeric characters but by jamming a "+" in Google+, Google has opened a big can of marketing worms. Google+

Jack Dorsey's Square is on a ($100 million) tear this week, but the competition is heating up--and they have bigger plans for a wireless payment future that could arrive as soon as next year. Square just received a $100 million cash injection and is now valued at a cool $1 billion

A new government study shows that lung cancer screening with CAT scans can dramatically reduce the death toll. Betty Nguyen reports on the promising new study.

Earlier this month, scientists for the Pan African Sanctuaries Alliance presented new research that predicted the extinction of the Nigeria-Cameroon chimpanzee ( Pan troglodytes ellioti ), the world's rarest chimpanzee subspecies, within as little as 20 years.

Six-member panel of cancer experts said studies show drug to be ineffective, unsafe

By Ari Rabinovitch JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Israel wants to harvest salt from the bottom of the Dead Sea in hopes of protecting its southern shore, but a $2 billion price tag has pitted the government against one of the country's largest companies.

By Ari Rabinovitch JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Israel wants to harvest salt from the bottom of the Dead Sea in hopes of protecting its southern shore, but a $2 billion price tag has pitted the government against one of the country's largest companies.