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Washington: Scientists have discovered that a common drug used to treat nail fungus in feet may eradicate HIV from the body. The topical anti-fungal drug Ciclopirox caused HIV-infected cells to commit suicide by jamming up the mitochondria,researchers at Rutgers New Jersey Medical School said. They said there was no rebound of virus when the drug was stopped.
NSA spied on Martin Luther,US senators
Washington: The National Security Agency eavesdropped on civil rights icon Martin Luther King and boxer Muhammad Ali and other leading critics of the Vietnam War in a secret programme later deemed disreputable,declassified documents reveal. The programme dubbed Minaret was exposed in the 1970s but its targets were kept secret.
Serial blasts kill 23 in Iraq,wound dozens
Baghdad: Three bombs ripped through outdoor markets in and near Baghdad today,killing at least 23 people and wounding 41,the latest in a deadly wave that has hit Iraq in recent months,officials said. Three bombs went off simultaneously in the Shiite village of Sabaa al-Bour and at two markets in Baghdad. More than 4,000 people have been killed in violence during the past few months.
Son of China military singers in jail for rape
BEIJING: Li Tianyi,17,the son of Li Shuangjiang and Meng Ge,who are celebrity singers for the Chinese military,was convicted of rape on Thursday and sentenced to 10 years. Li and four other defendants took an 18-year-old woman they met in a Beijing bar in February this year to a hotel room,where they beat and sexually assaulted her.
