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By Wynne Parry LiveScience.com: Buried deep beneath the sediment of the North Atlantic Ocean lies an ancient, lost landscape with furrows cut by rivers and peaks that once belonged to mountains. Geologists recently discovered this roughly 56-million-year-old landscape using data gathered for oil... Sign in to see full entry.

By Julie Steenhuysen: CHICAGO (Reuters) - Environmental factors may play a greater role in autism than previously thought, tipping the scale away from a strict focus on genetics, two studies released on Monday suggest. In one, a team at Stanford University compared cases of autism in identical and... Sign in to see full entry.

By KAREN HAWKINS - Associated Press, MICHAEL TARM - Associated Press: CHICAGO (AP) — Rod Blagojevich, who rode his talkative everyman image to two terms as Illinois governor before scandal made him a national punch line, was convicted Monday of a wide range of corruption charges, including the... Sign in to see full entry.

By Anna Yukhananov – Wed Jun 22, 1:19 pm ET: WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Women who get silicone breast implants are likely to need additional surgery within 10 years to address complications such as rupturing of the device, U.S. health regulators said on Wednesday. The Food and Drug Administration will... Sign in to see full entry.

– Sun Jun 19, 8:00 am ET: LUCKNOW, India (AFP) – Prison authorities in India have released the country's oldest inmate, 108-year-old Brij Bihari Pandey, who was convicted of a murder he committed at the age of 84, officials said Saturday. Pandey, a Hindu priest, was freed on Friday by a court in the... Sign in to see full entry.

By Nick Thompson, CNN June 15, 2011 -- Updated 0907 GMT (1707 HKT) (CNN) -- People around the world are changing their diets because of soaring food prices, according to a new study. The majority of people in most countries surveyed by international aid agency Oxfam said they're no longer eating the... Sign in to see full entry.

By Rachel Rose Hartman: Though the president himself, his staff, and his supporters around the country are busy devoting everything they've got to his 2012 re-election campaign, Obama revealed Monday that his family isn't necessarily as "invested." "Michelle and the kids are wonderful in that if I... Sign in to see full entry.

By NORBERT RAABE / TAGES ANZEIGER / WORLDCRUNCH – Fri Jun 10, 7:40 am ET: This post is in partnership with Worldcrunch, a new global-news site that translates stories of note in foreign languages into English. The article below was originally published in Tages Anzeiger. When "Germany's first hiking... Sign in to see full entry.

Matt Stopera: Politics Buzz Apparently Andrew Breitbart showed Opie and Anthony a picture of Anthony Weiner's penis on their radio show this morning. Judge for yourself. It's blurry (and mostly sack). [ See Anthony Weiner's Dangerous Weapon for Yourself Here ] Sign in to see full entry.

By Liz Goodwin Fri Jun 3, 5:40 pm ET: Since HIV was discovered 30 years ago this week, 30 million people have died from the disease, and it continues to spread at the rate of 7,000 people per day globally, the UN says. There's not much good news when it comes to this devastating virus. But that is... Sign in to see full entry.