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NEW YORK – Authorities say a New York jails chaplain has been charged with trying to smuggle three razor blades and a pair of scissors into a facility. The Department of Investigation says 58-year-old Imam Zul-Qarnain Shahid was arrested at the Manhattan Detention Complex on Wednesday. The department says Shahid …

LONDON – British dog owners may be forced to microchip their pets and take out insurance, part of a proposed crackdown on the country’s dangerous canines. Postmen are delighted, but civil libertarians grumble that Britain’s sprawling surveillance state now wants to track the nation’s estimated 8 million dogs. Others complain …

New imaging technology suggests an experimental drug for Alzheimer’s reduces clumps of plaque in the brain by around 25 percent, lifting hopes for a medicine that disappointed in clinical tests two years ago. Bapineuzumab — being developed by Pfizer Inc, Irish drugmaker Elan Corp and Johnson & Johnson — is …