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Lung cancer CT scans: Just for older heavy smokers

Health News Headlines - Yahoo! News — Sun, 20 May 2012 16:44:31 +0000

New lung cancer screening guidelines recommend annual CT scans but only for current or former heavy smokers aged 55 to 74.

What to look for at the NATO summit

Politics News Headlines - Yahoo! News — Sun, 20 May 2012 16:38:50 +0000

A look at the main issues for the NATO alliance at the summit meeting for heads of government in Chicago on Sunday and Monday.

Dominicans weigh comeback for brash ex-president

World News Headlines - Yahoo! News — Sun, 20 May 2012 16:29:45 +0000

Dominicans formed orderly lines at voting stations across the country Sunday as they chose a new president from a field that includes a brash former president whose last term ended with an economic crisis and a favored technocrat from a ruling party that has spent the past eight years on a public works spending spree.

Lockerbie bomber Megrahi has died in Libya: brother

World News Headlines - Yahoo! News — Sun, 20 May 2012 16:28:13 +0000

TRIPOLI (Reuters) - Abdel Basset al-Megrahi, the Libyan convicted of the 1988 bombing of a PanAm flight over Lockerbie, died of cancer on Sunday aged 60, leaving many questions on the attack and its aftermath unanswered. Megrahi who said he was not responsible for bringing the jumbo jet down on the Scottish town and killing 270 people, was found guilty in 2001 but released in 2009 and returned to Libya because he had terminal cancer and not expected to live long. ...

Party leaders refuse to budge on debt positions

Politics News Headlines - Yahoo! News — Sun, 20 May 2012 16:22:11 +0000

Republicans and Democrats aren't budging when it comes to their already hardened positions on spending cuts versus tax increases to deal with the nation's debt.

Pakistan blocks Twitter over Prophet cartoons

Tech News Headlines - Yahoo! News — Sun, 20 May 2012 16:21:00 +0000

Pakistan blocked Twitter on Sunday, accusing the microblogging site of refusing to remove posts promoting a Facebook competition involving caricatures of the Prophet Mohammed.

Senator decries convicted Lockerbie bomber’s death in freedom

Politics News Headlines - Yahoo! News — Sun, 20 May 2012 16:14:35 +0000

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Senator Charles Schumer on Sunday criticized the Scottish government for allowing convicted Lockerbie bomber Abdel Bassett al-Megrahi to die a free man in what he said "smelled of a deal for oil." Schumer, a New York Democrat, said on CNN that the death of Megrahi, reported on Sunday by the former Libyan intelligence officer's brother, meant the full truth about the bombing of a Pan Am airliner in 1988 over Scotland may never be known. He has questioned whether Megrahi was released from prison as part of a deal for Libyan oil. ...

3 charged in carjacking of pastor Marvin Winans

Entertainment News Headlines - Yahoo! News — Sun, 20 May 2012 16:12:53 +0000

A Michigan prosecutor has charged three young men in the assault and carjacking of popular Detroit pastor and gospel singing icon Marvin Winans.

Lone bomber, not mafia, sought for Italy school attack

World News Headlines - Yahoo! News — Sun, 20 May 2012 16:09:18 +0000

BRINDISI (Reuters) - A bomb attack which killed a teenage girl and wounded 10 other people in the southern Italian town of Brindisi was probably done by an individual operating alone, a senior official said on Sunday, playing down initial suspicions of mafia involvement. Saturday's attack on the Francesca Morvillo Falcone school, a vocational training institute named after the wife of a famed anti-mafia judge, horrified Italy and sparked speculation it was the work of southern Italy's organized crime gangs. ...

Screening for Lung Cancer Might Benefit Those at Highest Risk

Health News Headlines - Yahoo! News — Sun, 20 May 2012 16:06:19 +0000

SUNDAY, May 20 (HealthDay News) -- Using low-dose CT scans to screen for lung cancer might save the lives of patients at the greatest risk for the disease, a new analysis suggests.