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Authorities act after more than 100 children and teenagers suffer eye injuries from toy guns and rifles during celebrations to mark the end of Ramadan

Afghanistan has banned the sale of imitation Kalashnikovs and other fake guns after the toys caused injuries to more than 100 people during Eid al-Fitr celebrations.

The move is part of a wider effort to curb a culture of violence in the war-torn country.

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Study also reveals some groups in South America have closer genetic ties to indigenous peoples of Australia, New Guinea and the Andaman Islands than to present-day Native Americans

Native American ancestors reached the new world in a single, initial migration from Siberia at most 23,000 years ago, only later differentiating into today’s distinct groups, DNA research revealed Tuesday.

Most scientists agree the Americas were peopled by forefathers who crossed the Bering land and ice bridge which connected modern-day Russia and Alaska in Earth’s last glacial period.

The former Soviet republic tops the world’s non-smoking league with fewer than one in 12 people still using tobacco

The health-obsessed former Soviet republic Turkmenistan is the country with the world’s lowest proportion of smokers, the World Health Organisation’s director general, Margaret Chan, said during a visit to the isolated nation on Tuesday.

“Recently a WHO overview showed that in Turkmenistan only 8% of the population smokes,” Chan told the country’s authoritarian president, Gurbanguly Berdymukhamedov, at a health forum in the capital, Ashgabat.

The former Soviet republic tops the world’s non-smoking league with fewer than one in 12 people still using tobacco

The health-obsessed former Soviet republic Turkmenistan is the country with the world’s lowest proportion of smokers, the World Health Organisation’s director general, Margaret Chan, said during a visit to the isolated nation on Tuesday.

“Recently a WHO overview showed that in Turkmenistan only 8% of the population smokes,” Chan told the country’s authoritarian president, Gurbanguly Berdymukhamedov, at a health forum in the capital, Ashgabat.

Legal papers claim Andrea Constand, who alleges comedian drugged and assaulted her, has breached 2006 confidentiality agreement

Comedian Bill Cosby filed legal papers on Tuesday calling for court sanctions against a woman accusing him of sexual assault, saying she breached their confidentiality agreement in the leak of his full deposition from a 10-year-old civil case.

Incarceration provides an opportunity to test for HIV, provide treatment such as highly active anti-retroviral therapy, as well as link infected persons to comprehensive HIV care upon their release. A key factor in assessing the success of a program that links released individuals to care is the time from release to receiving care in the community (linkage time). To estimate the linkage time, records from correction systems are linked to Ryan White Clinic data using encrypted Unique Client Identifier (eUCI). Most of the records that were linked using eUCI belong to the same individual; however, in some cases, it may link records incorrectly, or not identify records that should have been linked. We propose a Bayesian procedure that relies on the relationships between variables that appear in either of the data sources, as well as variables that exists in both to identify correctly linked records among all linked records. The procedure generates K datasets in which each pair of linked records is identified as a true link or a false link. The K datasets are analyzed independently, and the results are combined using Rubin's multiple imputation rules. A small validation dataset is used to examine different statistical models and to inform the prior distributions of the parameters. In comparison with previously proposed methods, the proposed method utilizes all of the available data and is both flexible and computationally efficient. In addition, this approach can be applied in other file linking applications. Copyright © 2015 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

In Southpaw Jake Gyllenhaal plays a boxing champ who has the stuffing knocked out of him by fate when his wife is killed and his finances spiral out of control. Benjamin Lee asks what it was like for Gyllenhaal – who grew up comfortably-off in LA – to play a working-class scrapper. Southpaw is out in the UK on Friday 24 July Continue reading...

Shadow business secretary will tell US thinktank that nation is witnessing ‘the end of British electoral politics as we know it’

Labour’s conversion to the principle of a federal Britain has won a powerful new convert: the shadow business secretary, Chuka Umunna, is to call on the party to back a parliament for England.

Umunna, who dropped out of the race to become Labour leader early on, also believes the party should embrace a federal structure.

But, regardless of when they read it, both the young ‘millennials’ and the older ‘boomers’ favour professional journalism as their major news source

An interesting study by Newsworks, the marketing body for national newspapers, shows the small differences - and big similarities - in the reading habits of younger and older people.

I’m not surprised by the results of the survey but it’s always nice to have one’s hunches confirmed!

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