Apple founder and CEO Steve Jobs has terminal pancreatic cancer and may live for just six more weeks, a media report said Thursday. The 55-year-old Jobs in January announced that at his request, the board of directors granted him a medical leave of absence so that he could focus on his health. Since then, employees have said Jobs can still be seen at the company’s headquarters in California... 

Over the next few days, Al Jazeera will be looking at the impact of rising food prices around the world. With increasing wealth in China, expensive culinary tastes have grown in popularity. And as Al Jazeera’s Melissa Chan now reports from Beijing, it is also impacting waistlines.  Read More »

Energy drinks are under-studied, overused and can be dangerous for children and teens, warns a report by doctors who say kids shouldn’t use the popular products. The potential harms, caused mostly by too much caffeine or similar ingredients, include heart palpitations, seizures, strokes and even sudden death, the authors write in the medical journal Pediatrics. They reviewed data from the government... 

Breakthough: Wires are connected from the bionic arm to muscles in the chest. Most modern prosthetic limbs can be considered high tech. But Jesse Sullivan has a particularly clever prosthetic arm – it doesn’t work using a motor, but is controlled by his mind. Scientists have found a way to make the thought controlled limb by connecting the nerves from Mr Sullivan’s stump to muscles... 

Breakthrough: Scientists believe they have unlocked the genetic secret behind prostate cancer, which raises the possibility of patients having their own 'mutation charts'. Scientists have unlocked the genetic secrets of prostate tumours in a breakthrough that could transform the treatment of the disease. It raises the possibility of patients having their own ‘mutation charts’, mapping the... 

A number of Chinese companies have been involved over the years in various scandals involving fake or tainted goods. Perhaps the most dangerous of all involve food, including the now famous 2008 milk scandal in which Chinese-made milk was found to contain the toxin melamine. The end result was 290,000 victims who fell ill and 11 suspected cases of death. Now there are reports from Singapore media... 

Nick Clegg today announced removal of legislation barring those with mental health problems from being MPs, telling Radio 5 Live it was an “old fashioned approach”. “Today we’re announcing we’re going to remove the law that means if you’re a politician or an MP and you suffer from a mental health problem for more than six months you are disqualified from standing... 

Rep. Steve King, R-Iowa speaks during a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, after accepting delivery of signed petitions demanding the repeal of ObamaCare. Swiftly honoring a campaign pledge, newly empowered Republicans pushed legislation to repeal the nation’s year-old health care overhaul through the House Wednesday night, brushing aside implacable opposition in the Senate... 

Assault charges: David Gutierrez faces 56 years in jail if convicted of his crimes. A U.S. Air Force sergeant – accused of having unprotected sex with multiple partners at swinger parties, without telling them he is HIV-positive – faced three of his victims in a court martial hearing today. Tech Sergeant David Gutierrez, 43, is accused of violating military law by breaking a squadron commander’s... 

Eleanor Carruthers, 68, had the flu vaccine in October but died after catching the swine strain. A grandmother-of-three thought she was safe from swine flu after she had the vaccine months ago. But Eleanor Carruthers, 68, from Merseyside became the latest victim of the outbreak on Saturday. Mrs Carruthers was seriously ill with emphysema and lung cancer, but had had the flu vaccination in October to... 

The government has so far refused to vaccinate pigs against the disease. South Korea has been heavily criticised for burying up to one million pigs alive as it grapples with a foot and mouth disease outbreak. Since the first case of the disease was confirmed in November the country has embarked on a mass cull. Foot and mouth disease affects all cloven hoofed animals such as pigs, cattle and goats,... 

People living near Fort Detrick in Maryland are developing liver, bone, and endocrine cancers at younger ages. Wonder why? Could it have anything to do with environmental toxins. Two and a half years ago, Randy White’s daughter Kristen was diagnosed with brain cancer. She went through chemo, radiation and three brain biopsies, but nothing worked. Just 30 years old, she died in his house, in his... 

Doctors have voiced concerns that swine flu infections could reach “epic proportions” at one hospital, with 18 patients reporting symptoms in just 24 hours. Staff at the George Eliot Hospital in Nuneaton, in Warwickshire, put all the sufferers into isolation in an attempt to contain the outbreak. Four of them, however, were so ill that they had to be moved to the intensive care unit. Medical... 

A shocking report prepared for Prime Minister Putin by the Foreign Military Intelligence Directorate (GRU) states that one of the United States top experts in biological and chemical weapons was brutally murdered after he threatened to expose a US Military test of poison gas that killed hundreds of thousands of animals in Arkansas this past week. According to this report, John P. Wheeler III, Special... 

Disclaimer: The following story may be in error. We have received an email where we were told that Neotame is not allowed in US Organic Food. Just when we thought that buying “Organic” was safe, we run headlong into the deliberate poisoning of our organic food supply by the FDA in collusion with none other than the folks who brought us Aspartame. NutraSweet, a former Monsanto asset, has developed...