Cancer blood test ‘enormously exciting’
Scientists have taken a step towards one of the biggest goals in medicine - a universal blood test for cancer.
A team at Johns Hopkins University has trialled a method that detects eight common forms of the disease.
Their vision is an annual test designed to catch cancer early and save lives. UK experts said it was "enormously exciting".
However, one said more work was needed to assess the test's effectiveness at detecting early-stage cancers.
Tumours release tiny traces of their mutated DNA and proteins they make into the bloodstream.
Frosty reception for South Korea's Winter Olympics detente with North
Young people and conservatives in South Korea accuse President Moon Jae-in of sacrificing Olympic ideals for diplomatic expediency
South Korea is facing a public backlash over its sports rapprochement with North Korea, with critics accusing the government of turning next month’s Pyeongchang Winter Olympics into the “Pyongyang Olympics”.
After three high-level meetings along their border in little over a week, North and South Korea have proposed forming a joint women’s ice hockey team and allowing their athletes to march together under one flag at next month’s games in South Korea.
Despite the logistical challenges posed by North Korea’s eleventh-hour agreement to compete in Pyeongchang, the International Olympic Committee is expected to give the proposal a sympathetic hearing when it meets officials from both countries in Lausanne on Saturday.
Russia says Ukraine's law calling it an 'aggressor' is preparation for a 'new war'
'Kiev has gone from sabotaging the Minsk agreements to burying them'
The Russian foreign ministry sees Ukraine's efforts to denounce Moscow as an "aggressor country" as evidence that it is preparing for a "new war", according to Russian media.
Earlier on Thursday, Ukraine's parliament passed a bill that described the eastern territories of Donetsk and Luhansk as "temporarily occupied", and pledged to reintegrate them back under Kiev's control.
President Petro Poroshenko welcomed the new bill saying that it would help restore control of the east by "political and diplomatic means".
The conflict in eastern Ukraine erupted in the weeks after Russia annexed Crimea in April 2014 and has seen more than 10,000 people killed.
China detains prominent human rights lawyer and Xi Jinping critic
Rights lawyer Yu Wensheng has been detained by Chinese authorities, hours after circulating a letter calling for constitutional reforms. Yu is the latest litigator to be arrested as part of China's crackdown on dissent.
Chinese human rights lawyer Yu Wensheng was detained by authorities, including a SWAT team, on Friday morning as he left his Beijing apartment to walk his child to school, his wife said.
Yu's arrest comes days after he had his law license revoked and mere hours after he circulated a letter to journalists criticizing Chinese President Xi Jinping and calling for constitutional reforms.
Yu's wife, Xu Yan, said she had not received any legal documentation about his detention nor been told what crime he is alleged to have committed. The Chinese Ministry of Public Security had also yet to officially announce his detention.Pope shocks Chile by accusing sex abuse victims of slander
Pope Francis accused victims of Chile’s most notorious paedophile of slander Thursday, an astonishing end to a visit meant to help heal the wounds of a sex abuse scandal that has cost the Catholic Church its credibility in the country.
Francis said that until he sees proof that Bishop Juan Barros was complicit in covering up the sex crimes of the Rev. Fernando Karadima in Chile, such accusations against Barros are “all calumny.”
The pope’s remarks drew shock from Chileans and immediate rebuke from victims and their advocates. They noted the accusers were deemed credible enough by the Vatican that it sentenced Karadima to a lifetime of “penance and prayer” for his crimes in 2011. A Chilean judge also found the victims to be credible, saying that while she had to drop criminal charges against Karadima because too much time had passed, proof of his crimes wasn’t lacking.
The scary ideology behind Trump’s immigration instincts
“Shithole” wasn’t the worst part of the president’s comments on immigration.
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The most important phrase uttered during President Donald Trump’s infamous immigration deal meeting last Thursday wasn’t the one about people from “shithole” countries. It was: “Why do we want people from Haiti here?” It came along with Trump’s statement that America should want more immigrants from countries like Norway.
In other words: Why can’t we have more white immigrants, and fewer nonwhite ones?
Trump isn’t just expressing what some conservatives view as “politically incorrect”sentiments. He — and, importantly, members of his staff — is embracing what used to be a fringe theory held by the furthest of the far right — one that holds that white people are being systematically “erased” by their inferiors, and thus require an influx of white babiesand new white immigrants (and the exclusion of nonwhite immigrants) to survive.
To some among these believers, white Americans, and white culture, are threatened by a slow-running “genocide” via demographic replacement. (Indeed, Trump once retweeted someone with the handle “WhiteGenocide,” which refers to this theory.)
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