Extremely drug-resistant TB spreading in India

Extremely drug-resistant TB, or XDR-TB, is a growing problem in India affecting mostly young, working-age people, researchers said Tuesday at the American Thoracic Society’s 2007 conference.

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40 arrests as Pakistani police held hostage

Pakistani authorities have detained about 40 Islamist students amid a tense stand-off over two policemen held hostage at an extremist mosque in the capital Islamabad, officials said.

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Cellphone provides lead in Indian mosque blast

A shopkeeper has provided a photograph of the man who allegedly bought the subscriber data card that was in a phone found at the site of deadly mosque blast in southern India, police said.

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