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At Massachusetts General Hospital, Dr. Leana Wen cared for people hurt by the bomb blasts at the Boston Marathon finish line. She worried that the next patient she treated would turn out to be her husband. Ten days later, the sounds of sirens still shake her.

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Following legal action, Facebook says it has deleted a memorial page dedicated to a Brazilian journalist who died in May last year.

The body of a man found in a Rhode Island river is a student mistakenly identified as one of the Boston bombers, medical officials confirm.

The military leader of the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) says fighters will begin to withdraw from Turkey in early May as part of a peace plan.

Among other things, the tech giant says it will more clearly label results from its own services and more prominently display competitors' results.

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The 'tricky issue' of whether the Treasury should keep 'bad' RBS

MPs and peers mark the end of the current parliamentary year in the prorogation ceremony.

A study of Google searches and US stock market data finds that rises in searches for financially relevant terms precede market slumps.

Jenson Button needs to get used to McLaren team-mate Sergio Perez racing him hard, according to former F1 driver John Watson.

Further tests are ordered on a man who died while suffering from measles after post-mortem examination results were inconclusive.

A "blame game," is how Laura Gutierrez, a Fulbright fellow researching Bangladesh's garment industry, describes the process of trying to assign responsibility for factory disasters.

Gutierrez, who spoke to Marketplace from the site of a massive building collapse in Dhaka that has killed at least 194 people, said finger-pointing is rife following such tragedies. 

Some items of clothing found inside the collapsed building, which housed a number of factories, reportedly bear the labels of American and European companies. 

"Assuming that American and European or other western brands were present here in the factory, it is their responsibility to pay compensation," Gutierrez said.  

However, compensation is often voluntary rather than mandatory, as companies, governments and factory owners point fingers over who bears ultimate responsibility.

After a fire tore through the Tazreen factory in Bangladesh late last year, killing at least 112, Walmart and Sears declined to compensate victims' families. Each company said it was unaware its goods were being made in Tazreen. Walmart donated $1.6 million to launch the Environmental Health and Safety Academy in Bangladesh. 

Burt Flickinger, managing director of the Strategic Resource Group, says it is worth keeping an eye on whether the fire has an impact on Walmart's bottom line. He predicts a slight drop in sales of the company's clothing. 

"Consumers have a conscience and they support the stores much less where there have been tragic factory disasters and deaths and massive amounts of injuries," Flickinger said. 

A stork in Knic, central Serbia, who missed the winter migration due to an injury has adopted an unlikely home until warmer weather arrives - a local pub.

A Colombian peasant who raised the baby of a woman who gave birth while in rebel captivity has been sentenced to 33 years in jail for kidnapping.

What drives a father to take the lives of his children?

St Helens middleweight Martin Murray on fighting Argentine superstar Sergio Martinez in front of 50,000 fans in Buenos Aries

The speaking and listening element of GCSE English will no longer form part of the overall grade, under proposals from England's exams regulator Ofqual.

Bangladeshi rescuers desperately search for survivors after a building housing garment factories collapsed in Dhaka, killing more than 200 people.

The blast late Wednesday in Mobile left three people with critical burns and forced the evacuation of a nearby cruise ship on the Mobile River.

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The UK economy avoids falling into a triple-dip recession after seeing 0.3% growth in the first three months of the year.

Swedish police say they found drugs on board a Justin Bieber tour bus but won't be taking the matter further.