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Cruise ships' toilets dirty

Going on a cruise? To cut your risk of getting sick while sailing the high seas, avoid using the ship's public bathrooms.

Cause of death in SA

Although HIV/Aids is gaining acceptance as a cause of death in South Africa, the leading causes are tuberculosis, influenza and pneumonia.

Thin line between love and jealousy

Scientists have discovered that the ‘love hormone’ oxytocin, which affects behaviours such as trust, empathy and generosity, also affects opposite behaviours, such as jealousy.

Man eats a kilo of metal

Doctors in northern Peru have removed almost a kilogram of nails, coins and scrap metal from a man's stomach, a surgeon that operated on him said.

Sick baby allowed to die

A seriously ill baby at the centre of a court battle between his parents in Britain will be allowed to die after his father dropped his objection to switching off his ventilator.

Divorce expo in the city of love

The city of romance got a lesson in love's hard knocks on Sunday, as would-be divorces flocked by the thousands to the French capital's first annual divorce fair.

Palms, feet, forearms germ hotbeds

A new "atlas" of bacterial life on and within the human body has uncovered the fact that your palms, feet and forearms are a veritable United Nations of germs.

Married+children=happiness

Want to be a happy married couple? Consider having kids.

Babys right to die: mom fights dad

A seriously ill baby whose parents are locked in a legal battle about whether to keep him on the ventilator which allows him to breathe is living "on a knife edge".

1st new lupus drug in decades

Human Genome Sciences and GSK said their experimental lupus treatment passed another key goal on its path to potentially becoming the first new drug for the disease in decades.