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Everyone knows it makes sense to eat broccoli, but what about slathering it on our skin to protect it from the sun’s harmful rays? Think it’s far-fetched?

Salam Omar, a businessman and former head of a major Egyptian bank, was arrested Monday on charges of sexually assaulting a maid at a luxury Manhattan hotel just weeks after the arrest of Dominique Strauss-Kahn, the former International Monetary Fund head, on similar charges. Mahmoud Abdel Salam Omar is accused of sexually assaulting a maid at The Pierre hotel, near Central Park and Fifth Avenue on the Upper East Side, police said.

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Salam Omar Charged With Sexual Assault of Hotel Maid

Tim Pawlenty, the former Minnesota governor who is seeking the Republican presidential nomination, told ABC's “This Week” that if he were president, he would sign Paul Ryan's bill proposal that would privatize Medicare. “If the only choices were doing nothing like President Obama is doing and Paul Ryan's plan, I'd sign it,” Pawlenty said.

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Bashar al-Assad, the Syrian president whose administration has battled 10 weeks of protests against his rule, issued a general amnesty on Tuesday. Al-Assad had instituted a violent military crackdown on protesters unhappy about his 11-year rule, and so the announcement of amnesty is a sign of concession on his administration's part.

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Bashar Al-Assad Grants Amnesty to Syrian Rebels

Tobacco will kill six million people this year, and the number could rise to eight million by 2030, according to the World Health Organization. May 31 is World No Tobacco Day, an effort to press countries around the world to increase their antismoking efforts. On World No Tobacco Day, the World Health Organization checks up on countries that signed its Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (FCTC)

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Tobacco: World No Tobacco Day

Diabetes Mellitus Type 2 is being combatted by drugmaker Sanofi, whose candidate drug Lyxumia, or lixisenatide, when added to basal insulin, significantly reduced blood sugar levels in type 2 diabetes patients and also led to loss in weight. Lyxumia is a member of the GLP-1 class of drugs, which stimulate insulin release when glucose levels become too high. It has not gotten government approval for sale anywhere in the world yet.

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Diabetes Mellitus Type 2 Drug by Sanofi Causes Weight Loss

Mobile phones have been touted as being “possibly carcinogenic” by The International Agency for Research on Cancer, a branch of the World Health Organization, reports Telegraph UK. In classifying the radiation emitted by handsets, however, the agency said it did not find evidence of a clear link. But its decision now puts mobiles in the same risk category as lead, the pesticide DDT and petrol exhausts

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Mobile Phone: "Possibly Carcinogenic," says World Health Organization

John Ashcroft, the former Attorney General, was being sued because of a law he signed into being until Tuesday, when the Supreme Court threw the case out.