Italy, France meet as eurozone under pressure again

PARIS,7, Jan,AFP

The eurozone’s debt-wracked economies came under renewed pressure on Friday as bad economic data undermined leaders’ attempts to reassure markets that an end to the crisis is in sight. Italy’s Prime Minister Mario Monti met France’s President Nicolas Sarkozy in Paris as the single currency bloc’s second and third biggest economies sought to head off doubts about their deficit reduction plans.

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India’s first anti-poaching tiger force begins work

India’s first forest ranger unit charged specifically with preventing tiger poaching has gone into action. The 54-member force will patrol tiger reserves in national parks straddling the borders of Karnataka, Tamil Nado and Kerala states in the south. The Special Tiger Protection Force has received training in jungle survival and weapons use.

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Scientists Find Spinal Clue to Detecting Dementia

A test to detect those likely to develop Alzheimer's disease before symptoms appear finally may be on the horizon after scientists found changes in spinal fluid can predict the disease with 90 percent accuracy nearly a decade before dementia sets in.

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