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A 7.2 magnitude earthquake hit turkey on Sunday and toppled more than 2,000 buildings. Early Tuesday morning a 2-week-old infant girl was pulled from the rubble of one of the buildings. The girl's mother and grandmother were also pulled from the rubble alive about two hours later.

This might be one study they could have kept to themselves. Just in time for Global Handwashing Day, researchers from the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine and Queen Mary, University of London went to 12 cities and took 390 samples from cellphones and hands to be tested for germs.

The August 23rd earthquake that hit the East coast did quite a bit of damage in the Washington D.C. area including to the Washington Monument which remains closed for repairs. They knew there was some damage to the monument, but closer inspections revealed more serious damage than previously thought as a result of the 5.8 magnitude quake.

The practice of special 'last meals' for inmates on death row has been quietly debated for years and Texas has announced the practice will stop immediately. The change was prompted by a Texas Senator who was pretty miffed over an expensive meal request from a man awaiting execution for a notorious dragging death.

An earthquake measuring 5.8 on the richter scale hit in the Washington, D.C. area today at 1:51 EDT. The shaking was felt as far away as New York and New England and Canada. The majority of the shaking was in in Virginia and the USGS says the epicenter is Louisa, Virginia just southeast of Charlottesville and northwest of Richmond.

Scientists have finally identified a gene linked to diabetes and cholesterol that might act as a 'master switch' that controls other genes found in fat in the human body which could help treat obesity which affects more than half a billion people worldwide, or one in ten adults.

Just days after President Barack Obama announced that Osama bin Laden had been killed by U.S. operatives in Abbottabad, Pakistan, TIME released a preview of its latest issue, in which the terrorist leader appears with a red X over his face.

Have you ever seen a food treat like a milkshake and found it very hard to resist it? You are not alone. According to Reuters, seeing a milkshake can trigger the same areas in the brain that light up when an addict sees drugs.

According to a new survey published in the Huffington Post, 85 percent of women said they have been annoyed by other female friends because of they read about them on Facebook.