There is no evidence acupuncture or Chinese herbal medicine boost the chance of IVF success, fertility experts warn.
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David Beckham’s hopes of being the first English player to appear in four World Cups have been shattered and his future in international football is in doubt after he ruptured his Achilles while pl
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Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao rejects criticism that Beijing keeps the yuan undervalued in order to boost exports.
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Peter Graves, star of the TV series Mission: Impossible and the Airplane films, dies of a suspected heart attack in LA, aged 83.
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We spent the whole day in Rantau Prapat, the capital district of Kabupaten Labuhan Batu. The district is comparably small that we could drive west-to-east in 30 minutes. The road is wide with relatively low number of vehicles. There is only one shopping centre called Plaza Suzuya (that’s an odd name and sounds very Japanese [...]