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Cancer 'is purely man-made' say scientists after finding almost no trace of disease in Egyptian mummies

Cancer is a man-made disease fuelled by the excesses of modern life, a study of ancient remains has found.

Tumours were rare until recent times when pollution and poor diet became issues, the review of mummies, fossils and classical literature found.A greater understanding of its origins could lead to treatments for the disease, which claims more than 150,000 lives a year in the UK.

WikiLeaks loses funding, blames US government

WikiLeaks believes that it is paying for (or rather, not being paid for) its military leak. According to the Guardian, WikiLeaks has claimed that "it has had its funding blocked and that it is the victim of financial warfare by the US government." Moneybookers, an Internet payment company registered in Britain that collects WikiLeaks donations, emailed the company to say its account was closed down because it was on an official US watchlist and Australian government blacklist.

"The apparent blacklisting came a few days after the Pentagon publicly expressed its anger at Wikileaks and its founder, Australian citizen Julian Assange, for obtaining thousands of classified military documents about the war of Afghanistan, in one of the US army's biggest leaks of information," states the Guardian article by David Leigh and Rob Evans. The documents were then made available to the Guardian, the New York Times and a German magazine Der Spiegel, "revealing hitherto unreported civilian causalities.

Epidemic? Half of US teens ?meet criteria for mental disorder'

Around half of US teens meet the criteria for a mental disorder and nearly one in four report having a mood, behavior or anxiety disorder that interferes with daily life, American researchers say.

Fifty-one percent of boys and 49 percent of girls aged 13-19 have a mood, behavior, anxiety or substance use disorder, according to the study published in the Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry.

Secret Cold War plan included mass detentions

At the height of the Cold War, the Canadian government crafted a top-secret plan to detain thousands of citizens with Communist links in the event of a national security threat, according to a joint CBC/Radio-Canada investigation.

The secret contingency plan, called PROFUNC, allowed police to round up and indefinitely detain Canadians believed to be Communist sympathizers.

Burglaries Follow Oklahoma Door-to-Door Insurance Salesman

Oklahoma authorities say a trend has developed of home burglaries following a visit by a door-to-door salesman. Nearly a dozen communities have been hit.

Garfield County sheriff's deputies told Oklahoma City television station KFOR that the salesman uses a high-pressure approach. In the process, the salesman finds out when family members are home.