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The search continues for missing Alabama teen, Natalee Holloway (search). Here’s information if you would care to make a donation to Natalee’s family: Family of Natalee Holloway Trust Recovery and Reward Funds Please send donations to: Baker Crow Amsouth Bank Trust Department PO Box 11426 Birmingham, AL 35202 Please note …

WASHINGTON – Airlines are finding new ways to operate and maintain planes, but government safety inspectors aren’t keeping up with potential new risks those changes create, says a report released Wednesday. The Federal Aviation Administration (search) “still has a substantial amount of work ahead to improve its oversight systems, especially …

Television may be making it harder for kids to understand what’s healthy and what’s not when it comes to their diet. A new study shows that children equate terms like “diet” and “fat free” with healthy because TV commercials equate weight loss benefits to nutritional benefits. But what’s good for …

Do genetics play a role in female fertility? Can stem cells be used to produce healthy sperm and eggs? These are just some of the provacative questions that have been raised and addressed in the research being presented this week in Copenhagen, Denmark at a meeting of the European Society …

SACRAMENTO, Calif. – A father and son were indicted Thursday by a federal grand jury on charges they lied to authorities investigating links to Pakistani terrorist training camps connected to Al Qaeda (search). Hamid Hayat (search), 22, was accused of lying to the FBI earlier this month when he said …

MELBOURNE, Australia – An Australian engineer from California dramatically rescued from insurgents in Baghdad last week arrived back in his native country Monday, saying he feared his captors would murder him. But at his first media conference since being freed, Douglas Wood (search) said he never gave up hope during …

LONDON – Prime Minister Tony Blair’s (search) eldest son will intern for a U.S. congressional committee, Blair’s office said Sunday. Euan Blair (search), 21, will take a short, unpaid internship with the House Rules Committee, a spokesman for the prime minister’s office said. He did not specify when the internship …

Skipping exercise for a week or two may cramp your mood, says a study that turned regular exercisers into couch potatoes. “We were able to measure negative results from withdrawal of exercise in just two weeks,” says researcher Ali Berlin, MS, in a news release. Berlin works at the military’s …

WASHINGTON – No strangers to bureaucratic bungling and turf wars, the nation’s governors watched in horror as government agencies handled Hurricane Katrina (search) with glaring incompetence — and now worry that the next disaster could deal their states the same ugly fate. The fear is bipartisan. Republican and Democratic governors …

WASHINGTON – Louisiana’s senior senator on Sunday escalated the Democrats’ rhetoric against the Bush administration’s hurricane response, accusing the White House of a “full court press” to blame state and local officials for the initial sluggish rescue effort. The government’s emergency managers came under fire from the lone black senator, …