A U.S. patient with leukemia has become the first woman and the third person to date to be cured of HIV after receiving a stem cell transplant from a donor who was naturally resistant to the virus that causes AIDS, researchers reported on Tuesday.
The billionaire who launched on his own SpaceX flight last year is headed back up, aiming for an even higher orbit and the chance to take part in a spacewalk.
Pavlopil sits about 15 kilometres north of the city of Mariupol, a key Ukrainian port on the Sea of Azov. The village has seen its share of fighting: in late 2014, fighters from the breakaway Donetsk People's Republic briefly captured the settlement, before a Ukrainian counter-offensive drove them out.
Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin lost her libel lawsuit against The New York Times on Tuesday when a jury rejected her claim that the newspaper maliciously damaged her reputation by erroneously linking her campaign rhetoric to a mass shooting.
The families of nine victims of the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting have agreed to a $73 million US settlement in a lawsuit against the maker of the rifle used to kill 20 children in first grade and six educators in 2012, their lawyer said Tuesday.
