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The Florida Keys braced for storm tides and torrential rains today as Tropical Storm Ernesto approached. The center of the storm was expected to cross over the chain of islands south of mainland Florida by this evening.

They might have only just started clearing the staplers and paperweights from their office on the Paramount studio lot, but Tom Cruise and production partner Paula Wagner have already found someone to pay for their upkeep after last week’s split with the movie powerhouse: Washington Redskins owner Daniel Snyder.

Former Republican vice presidential candidate Jack Kemp is coming to Connecticut to campaign for Senator Joe Lieberman.
Lieberman, who is a former Democratic vice presidential candidate, is running as an independent for re-election after losing this month’s Democratic primary to Ned Lamont. He says Kemp, a former congressman and Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, called [...]

A synthetic molecule that triggers cancer cells to commit suicide was effective in mouse cancer models, scientists said. They hope the finding will herald in new drugs that can activate this mechanism that causes cancer cells to hasten their own death.
The molecule killed human lung cancer cells and kidney cancer cells in mouse models and [...]

FACING a forecast that predicts hurricane-strength winds coming perilously close to the Kennedy Space Centre by midweek, NASA managers this morning postponed indefinitely the launch of the space shuttle Atlantis and its crew of six.
Instead of launch preparations, engineers and technicians are quickly getting the shuttle ready to be rolled back to the safety of [...]