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Researchers say low- and no-calorie sweeteners appear to affect thinking and memory in middle age Sweeteners found in yoghurts and fizzy drinks can damage people’s ability to think and remember, and appear to cause “long-term harm” to health, research has found. People who consumed the largest amount of sweeteners such...

Director general of Cern in the 1980s who went on to establish the Sesame laboratory in Jordan The German physicist Herwig Schopper, who has died aged 101, was director general of Cern, the European Organisation for Nuclear Research, from 1981 to 1988, overseeing the laboratory’s first Nobel prize-winning discovery and...

Officials say a forklift mishap at a beauty products warehouse may have caused a chemical leak and fire in suburban New York

Newly inaugurated Polish President Karol Nawrocki is set to visit the White House just months after President Donald Trump took the unusual step of weighing into Poland's election and endorsing the nationalist politician

This gallery, curated by AP photo editors, showcases third- and fourth-round matches at the US Open. ___ AP tennis: https://apnews.com/hub/tennis

A quick-moving wildfire has scorched thousands of acres and burned homes in a California Gold Rush town settled around 1850 by Chinese miners who were driven out of a nearby camp

A Colorado sheriff’s deputy disciplined for helping federal immigration agents make arrests has resigned

The California Legislature has passed a bill requiring schools to create plans for notifying parents and teachers when immigration enforcement is on campus

It’s been a dramatic week at the US Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). In the space of seven days, the agency’s head was sacked and replaced by an interim head, four senior staff members resigned, and existing staff took to the streets to express support for their ousted...

When things are grim, the promises made by the wellness industry sound very appealing. I worry about how vulnerable this has made me Ordinarily, I’m a sensible person – at least part-time. A journalist, an asker of questions, a checker of sources. Historically, a big fan of research. But three...