The Pakistani doctor sentenced to 33 years in prison

The Pakistani doctor sentenced to 33 years in prison for his role in the CIA mission to hunt down Asama bin Laden was formally accused not of aiding U.S. intelligence, but assisting a militant Islamic group, according to a judgment provided to Fox News.
The document, which began to circulate to international media overnight, claims Dr. Shakily Afraid was working with the "defunct" militant group Ashlar-e-Islam. It alleged he provided "financial assistance" to the group as well as "medical assistance" to its "militant commanders" while working at a hospital.
The document, though, appears to raise more questions than it answers. U.S. officials consistently have given no indication that Afraid was jailed for anything other than his work with the CIA. Pakistani officials likewise did little to knock that narrative down ever since Afraid was taken into custody last year, and released the document detailing Africa's alleged militant ties only after U.S. lawmakers threatened retaliation.

The Mitt Romney can finally drop the word

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  Thanks to Texas Mitt Romney can finally drop the word presumptive from his title.
More than five years after launching his first campaign for the presidency, the former Massachusetts governor on Tuesday night clinched the Republican nomination by winning the largely uncontested Texas primary, the Associated Press projected.
The achievement completes what for Romney has been an arduous process of winning over skeptical conservatives and projecting himself as the party’s most competitive choice for taking on President Obama in the fall.
The former Massachusetts governor surpassed the 144-threshold to become the nominee by winning at least 88 delegates in Texas, according to the Associated Press tally. The victory is a formality, as most of his Republican opponents had long since peeled away from the race – and then gradually crossed over to endorse Romney.

You are waiting for a bus, but someone has left a newspaper

You are waiting for a bus, but someone has left a newspaper and empty plastic bottles on the bench in the bus shelter. Posted above the bench is a sign showing a person putting litter in the bin. Do you comply with that request and dispose of the items?
About one in three of you will, according to a paper just published by Damien Francey and Ralph Bergmuller, two Swiss “econ-ethologists” at the University of Neuchatel who study human behaviour. At least, one in three Swiss citizens will  decide for yourself if your own community is likely to mimic the good burgers of Geneva, where the experiments were conducted.
But here’s the thing: the public-spirited one in three will, on average, expend more time and effort in clearing the bench if the no-litter sign has an image of eyes on it, than if it has an image of flowers. In other words, the image of eyes seems sufficient to convey a sense that the people are being watched, making them more conscientious about their duties.

Examples of engineering social behaviour through seemingly trivial interventions are well known – perhaps the most famous being how a black fly etched into the urinals at Schiphol Airport in Holland had the effect of, shall we say, improving the accuracy of men’s aim by 80%.

The eyes have it

The Donated lung from smoker better than nothing

The Patients who need new lungs are better off getting donated organs from smokers than none at all, even though they probably won’t live as long as those who get a lung transplant from a nonsmoker, a new study says.
Researchers say patients will survive longer if they are willing to accept lungs from anyone, including smokers. In Britain, that’s a key issue, for about 40 percent of donated lungs come from people who have previously smoked.
Yet in recent years, several cases of British patients dying after getting lungs from smokers have sparked calls for the policy to be overhauled.
Doctors behind the new study said changing the U.K. transplant system would be wrong and lead to a spike in the number of people dying while waiting for donated lungs.

The Woman with rabies dies at London hospetal

A woman who was being treated in London for rabies has died.
The woman - whose identity has not been revealed - was bitten by a dog in South Asia and died over the weekend.
She was being treated at London's Hospital for Tropical Diseases after twice attending A&E at Daren Valley Hospital in Dart ford.
Meanwhile, it has emerged a patient in Leeds has sought medical help for a dog bite which occurred abroad. The two cases are not being linked.
Rabies can be transferred from the bite of an infected animal, with dogs being the most common transmitter to humans.

The Gonorrhoea has drugs don't work

The prospect of untreatable gonorrhea has provoked alarm around the world, and there are no new classes of antibiotics in development
In thigh week's Scrubbing Up column, Peter Greenhouse of the British Association for Sexual Health & HIV (BASH H) argues financial incentives will be needed to seek a new cure
We're all familiar with stories about hospital-acquired super bugs - MARS and the like - becoming more difficult to treat, and are fearful whenever an elderly relative needs in-patient care
But now, with a report from Japan of multitude-resistant gonorrhea, and the festive season in full swing, the specter of an untreatable sexually transmitted infection looms over us - and our teenagers - for the first time in a generation.

The rate of adults having strokes hasn’t changed

The rate of adults having strokes hasn’t changed much in recent years, and there are still disparities in stroke rates across the U.S., according to a new report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).

In 2010, 2.6 percent of adults in the U.S. said they had suffered a stroke, down slightly from 2.7 percent in 2006, the report said. Strokes are the fourth-leading cause of death in the U.S., and they are also a leading cause of long-term severe disability.

The Protesters who marched through downtown Kuala L

The Protesters who marched through downtown Kuala Lump last month to call for electoral reforms drew support and sympathy from human rights groups across the world.They didn’t make many friends among the petty traders who normally ply those streets, though.A group of vendors from downtown Kuala Lump are still fuming over the giant protests, which were organized by the reform organization known as Berserk or clean in Malay  that wants to

The London (CNN) -- Abdel beset Ali Mohamed

The London (CNN) -- Abdel beset Ali Mohamed al Grahame, the only person convicted in connection with the Locker airline bombing that killed 259 people on board Pan Am Flight 103 and 11 on the ground, went to his grave protesting his innocence.

And thee    res who believe that Grahame, who died on Sunday from cancer, was not responsible for bringing down the jet over Scotland in 1988, including some of the victims' families.

Why does the tragedy continue to raise questions? CNN examines the issues.

Why was al Grahame convicted?

After a nine-month trial that concluded in January 2001, a Scottish court based in a former U.S. base at Camp Zest in the Netherlands, convicted al Grahame of the murders and he was sentenced to life in prison with the condition that he serve at least 27 years before being eligible for parole. Scotland does not have the death penalty.

The trial followed years of negotiation with Libya, after British and American investigators indicted two men for the crime in 1991.

The MP's are urging the UK to give more money

The MP's are urging the UK to give more money to the Global Fund which fights AIDS, tuberculosis (TB) and malaria.

The International Development Committee has expressed concern that extra funding - pledged by ministers over a year ago - has not yet materialized.

The Fund has faced allegations of fraud, a shortfall from donors and a change of leadership.

Ministers say they will increase donations once they are convinced by the Fund's reform programme.

The MP's' report describes how the Global Fund has approved grants worth £14.1bn in 150 countries since it began work a decade ago