A study found the treatment does not reduce sperm count. However, several rounds of chemo does. Scientists in Stockholm, Sweden, monitored 182 men who had a testicle removed after cancer. Sperm concentration had decreased six months after radiotherapy, but not for chemo. But the sperm count in radiotherapy candidates then rose. ead author Dr Kristina Weibring, of the Karolinska University […]

(Reuters) – Exxon Mobil Corp is trying to block an investor proposal that calls on the world’s largest publicly traded oil company to set targets for lowering its greenhouse gas emissions, two of the investor groups involved said on Sunday. Exxon in late January wrote to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission that the proposal, which is set for a […]

President Trump announced on Twitter Sunday that he will delay hiking tariffs on Chinese goods next month and arrange a summit with Xi Jinping because of headway made during trade talks between the world’s two largest economies. “I am pleased to report that the U.S. has made substantial progress in our trade talks with China on important structural issues including […]

CHISINAU (Reuters) – Early results pointed to a hung parliament in Moldova’s election on Sunday, splitting the vote between pro-Western and pro-Russian forces at a time when the ex-Soviet republic’s relations with the European Union have soured. The current government wants closer EU integration and warns of catastrophe if the country falls back into Russia’s sphere of influence. But corruption […]

DAKAR/FATICK, Senegal (Reuters) – Senegal voted on Sunday in an election President Macky Sall is expected to win after strong economic growth in his first term, although rights groups criticized him for squeezing out rivals. Supporters chanted “Ole, Ole,” and flashed “V” for victory signs as Sall cast his vote in his hometown of Fatick. “The elected president will have […]

DHAKA (Reuters) – Bangladeshi commandoes shot a passenger on Sunday who had tried to enter the cockpit of a Biman Bangladesh Airlines flight after waving a gun and threatening to blow up the plane, airline and aviation authority officials said. The passenger, who had said he had a personal issue with his wife and told the pilot he wanted to […]

SHARM EL-SHEIKH, Egypt (Reuters) – Theresa May signaled on Sunday she wanted to press on as prime minister, saying there was still more to do to live up to her promise when she took office to make Britain work “for every one of us”. May told her governing Conservatives in December last year she would not lead the party into […]

The bodies of Aubrianne Moore, 28 and her daughters Alaina Rau, 2; Cassidy Rodery, 6; and Kyrie Rodery, 8, were found Monday at a property near Cedar Springs, a community about 30 miles north of Grand Rapids. The Michigan mother who shot her three daughters in the woods last Monday before killing herself in her boyfriend's driveway used a fake doctor's appointment to […]

VATICAN CITY (Reuters) – Pope Francis ended his conference on the sexual abuse of children by clergy on Sunday by calling for an “all-out battle” against a crime that should be “erased from the face of the earth”. But victims and their advocates expressed deep disappointment, saying Francis had merely repeated old promises and offered few new concrete proposals. In […]

ABUJA (Reuters) – As many as 39 people have been killed in election violence in Nigeria, civil society groups said on Sunday, as the country awaited the results of voting in what was forecast to be its tightest election since the end of military rule in 1999. The Situation Room – which represents more than 70 civil society groups – […]