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Guilty: Kidnapper who raised child as her own after snatching her from hospital
A kidnapper has been found guilty of snatching a newborn girl nearly two decades ago from a hospital and raising her as her own.
Three tourists abducted in southern Philippines by gunmen posing as travellers
Two Canadian tourists, a Norwegian resort manager and a Filipino woman have been kidnapped by unidentified gunmen from a popular resort island in the southern...
Masked men kidnap 18 Turkish construction workers in Baghdad
Masked men in military uniforms kidnapped 18 Turkish employees of an Ankara-based construction company in Baghdad Wednesday, bundling them into several...
Facing ‘peacekeeper babies,’ UN now offers DNA testing
The U.N. peacekeepers arrive; months later, some leave infants behind. Now the United Nations has quietly started to offer DNA testing to help prove paternity...
Family ‘kidnapped their six-year-old’ to teach him how evil the world can be
Three Missouri women have been arrested and charged with kidnapping after they allegedly arranged for a man to kidnap their six-year-old relative because...
Oldest DNA ever found sheds new light on where humans came from
Scientists said Wednesday they had unravelled the oldest DNA ever retrieved from a Homo sapiens bone, a feat that sheds light on modern humans’ colonisation...
Scientists look to ‘save’ coffee bean by breaking down its DNA
In the future when you are relaxing on the sofa of your favourite coffee house or blowing the froth off a home-made cappuccino, raise your cup to the 60...
Just 8.2% of human DNA ‘does something important’, study finds
Less than 10% of human DNA is “functional” and likely to be doing something important, according to Oxford University researchers.
Your friends may be your fourth cousins: U.S. study
People tend to choose friends who are genetically similar to themselves, so much so that a person’s social circle could be made up of their fourth...
Yeti, Big Foot debunked: DNA reveals the bear facts
Those who believe in the existence of the Abominable Snowman and Big Foot will be disappointed with science’s latest discovery.
Israeli premier: Terror group took 3 missing teens
A terror group abducted three teens, including an American, who disappeared in the West Bank, Israel’s prime minister said Saturday, as soldiers...
Three teenagers missing in West Bank assumed kidnapped
An official says one of the three teens presumed kidnapped in the West Bank is an American citizen.

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