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UN calls for Gaddafi probe.

The circumstances surrounding the death of Libya’s ousted despot Muammar Gaddafi are unclear and an investigation is needed, the UN human rights chief said on Friday.

It’s good to talk: Mobile phone use not linked to cancer, says new research – Health News, Health – Independent.ie.

THERE is no link between the long-term use of a mobile phone and getting brain cancer, research suggests.  In what has been described as the largest study on the subject, researchers found that cancer rates in the central nervous system were almost the same in both long-term mobile phone users and people who do not use the handsets, the study published on bmj.com found.

Fresh hope for blind girl after stem-cell therapy – National News – Independent.ie.

 BLIND schoolgirl has been able to see shadows up to 10 inches away after just one round of stem-cell treatment in China, her mum said last night.

Hamish McRae: Seven billion — and the world’s population just keeps on rising – Analysis, Opinion – Independent.ie.

SEVEN billion. Next week the world’s population will, according to the UN, reach seven billion and a baby born somewhere in the world will be designated the seven-billionth baby — just as Adnan Nevic, now a healthy 11-year-old living in Bosnia, became the six-billionth when he was born just after midnight on October 11, 1999.

We’re growing and growing: World’s population to reach 7 billion this month – Europe, World News – Independent.ie.

In Western Europe , Japan and Russia, the milestone comes amid worries about low birthrates and aging populations. In Chinaand India, the two most populous nations, it’s an occasion to reassess policies that have already slowed once-rapid growth.   But in sub-Saharan Africa, the demographic news is mostly sobering as the region staggers under the double burden of the world’s highest birthrates and deepest poverty. The regional population of nearly 900 million could reach 2 billion in 40 years at current rates, accounting for about half of the projected global population growth over that span.