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have jumped 20% in premarket trading on the American Stock Exchange today. PFE; LSE: PFZ), which will receive a license to market Protalix's treatment for Gaucher's disease. Pfizer will make an upfront payment of $60 million to Protalix. In addition,...

WHO warns that with new H5N1 bird flu cases reported in poultry in Egypt, Indonesia, Thailand and Vietnam, the risk of bird flu and the H1N1 pandemic swine flu virus mixing was heightened Hanoi: Vietnam's Ministry of Health says a...

Army bomb squad unit that defuses bombs in Iraq, won best feature on Monday at the Gotham awards, the top U.S. East Coast independent film awards. The action-filled drama also took the award for best ensemble performance, and its director,...

Correction officers at the Westchester County Jail used excessive force on inmates who were sometimes already restrained or compliant, dousing their faces with excessive amounts of pepper spray or, in one case, slamming a prisoner’s head into a wall, a...

Krugman has some practical suggestions for creating more jobs but they may be difficult to sell politically since they involve spending more money when everyone seems to be concerned about the debt. However creation of jobs also creates economic activity...

We are, after all, talking about one of the gentlest voices in jazz-pop, an artist who has sold more than 35 million copies of her first three albums...The Fall was produced by Jacquire King, who has worked with Tom Waits...

Sources confirm to us exclusively that TNT is not renewing the Mark-Paul Gosselaar legal drama Raising the Bar for a third season. A rep for the network says, "Everyone at TNT had a great experience working on Raising the Bar...

The 15-member panel also extended the mandate of the Group of Experts dealing with the DRC for the same period, and expanded its remit to include the creation of recommendations on due diligence guidelines for the buying and processing of...