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LONDON — Like something out of a science fiction novel, American doctors have successfully created replacement organs using their patients’ own cells. CNN reports: In a small pilot study, published Monday in the Lancet, scientists reported successfully reconstructing urethras in five patients, using their own cells. The organs were made for boys, aged 10 to […]

Today Mardi Gras  carnivals are major events. Thousands of people participate and millions more watch it on TV. In New Orleans and Rio de Janeiro, they are major tourist attractions.

Former Los Angeles Lakers player AC Green received the 2011 Bobby Jones Award at the All-Star Breakfast in Los Angeles.

MediaTakeOut.com just learned that rapper Kanye West has thrown his hat into the another arena – ACTING!!! And in his first role, we hear he’s going to be playing a GAY DUDE. And it gets better, the movie will have a GAY LOVE SCENE IN IT!! Wowzers. Anyway, here’s the full report, from an MTOer […]

An 11-year-old boy in Spanish Town, Jamaica claims that he is being contacted by a “duppy” as Jamaicans call ghosts, who pushes him at times. Watch another video

  WASHINGTON — A package containing explosive materials was intercepted in Dubai on its way from Yemen to a Chicago Jewish institution, and authorities in London were investigating a suspicious package in England as part of a terror probe that spanned three continents, officials said Friday. U.S. officials said they were increasingly confident that the […]

A drug cartel in Mexico opened fire on a small police department in Los Ramones and as a result, all of the officers quit. According to published reports the 14 police officers police force in Los Ramones, a rural town in northern Mexico, fled in terror after gunmen fired more than 1,000 bullets and flung […]

    (via chron.com) CIUDAD JUAREZ, Mexico — At least 13 young people were shot dead and 15 wounded in an attack on a house party in Ciudad Juarez, the second such massacre in less than a week in the violent city bordering Texas. Gunmen in three cars drove up to the home around 11 […]

  Copiapo, Chile (CNN) — By late Wednesday afternoon, rescuers had winched to the surface more than two-thirds of the 33 miners trapped in a northern Chile gold and copper mine, and the world marveled at a “mission incredible.” After 69 harrowing days, the miners ascended to freedom one by one, hoisted through a half-mile […]

According to our friends over at CNN, scientists have discovered a new “Goldilocks” in a potentially habitable zone around a nearby star. CNN’s Josh Levs reports.

Via Newsone.com: Although it’s several years from being released, some of you may have heard by now that Will Smith is preparing to play the part of 25th dynasty Egyptian Pharoah, Taharqa, in a major Hollywood film set for 2013. That said, in the year 2010, it should go without saying that we, as black […]

Spanish police say they have disrupted a criminal network trafficking male prostitutes. CNN's Phil Black reports.