During the Friday feature on Saturday Night Live, the children- dressed to resemble Loose Women’s regular presenters- read out scripted questions including one about Kim Kardashian’s bum.

By Richard Cowan and David Lawder WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Congress narrowly averted a partial shutdown of the U.S. domestic security agency late on Friday night, but the forces behind the chaotic episode remain – fractious Republicans and House Speaker John Boehner's lack of control over them. In five to seven months, the federal debt ceiling […]

The gunning-down of Russian opposition leader Boris Y. Nemtsov has some pundits consumed with the whodunit. “The biggest theory which dumbfounded me is the notion that Nemtsov’s own party ordered his murder because that’s just absolutely ridiculous and I can’t even believe it’s being dignified,” Knight says. Ms. Knight has a PhD degree in Russian […]

HSBC (HSBA.L), in the spotlight after details emerged about how its Swiss unit allegedly helped clients dodge taxes, isn’t the troublemaker it is currently depicted as, the head of a rival private bank was quoted saying on Saturday. “HSBC has been described as the troublemaker in class, and it is not,” Carlos Esteve, founder and […]

He was responding to reports that the Indian Health Ministry confirmed a significant outbreak of the influenza A virus of the same type with the H1N1 pandemic that occurred in 2009. In August 2010, the World Health Organisation (WHO) announced that the …

During the 2009 H1N1 pandemic, WHO and its collaborating laboratories were able to start shipping diagnostic reagent kits in 7 days after the declaration of a public health emergency of international concern. The mechanisms worked out for accomplishing …

In this atypical sitcom, he's a temp worker who, two years after a viral pandemic, is seemingly the only person left alive. It's an open invitation for this lonely guy to do things like bowling in the middle of a street using lamps instead of pins or …

"The Andromeda Strain": In Michael Crichton's 1969 novel and the 1971 movie adaptation, a grizzled desert dweller survives a pandemic because his Sterno drinking habit fends off a deadly microorganism. Sterno and the Flames: Riverside band that …

Ceaseless supporters of #PDXmusic, this week's mixtape comes courtesy of The Stand's Aaron Colter and features entries from Radiation City, TxE and Hustle and Drone in advance of the Portland… Sasquatch! Festival …

With the approval of the Bloom syndrome DNA test, there is now a starting point for scientific, regulatory and public discussion on the future of direct-to-consumer medical genetic testing. In the coming months and years, FDA may likely approve carrier …