Saturday, October 31, 2009 DUBLIN: Scientists in Ireland have found eating Indian food can help prevent esophageal cancer. Cancer cells studied in a laboratory started to die within 24 hours of exposure to curcumin, a chemical in the tumeric spice widely used in curry dishes to give it that bright yellow color, revealed the Cork Cancer Research Center in Ireland. The study on esophageal cancer was published in the British Journal of Cancer on Wednesday. “The cells also began to digest themselves. The results additionally showed that curcumin kills cells by triggering lethal cell death signals,” Cork’s Web site states. Suicide to cancer cells.Cancers of the esophagus kill more than 500,000 people across the world each year, reports Reuters.In the US, esophageal cancer will kill 14,530 people in 2009, reads the National Cancer Institute site. These numbers aren’t staggering when you compare them to the 69,078 people every year who die of lung cancer, or the 41,116 deaths of breast cancer victims, but this does create a glimmer of hope for treatments of all cancers.
BEIRUT: Thousands of people converged Saturday on central Beirut to mark the fourth anniversary of the assassination of Lebanese former premier Rafiq Hariri.Waving Lebanese flags and carrying pictures of the slain leader, men, women and children gathered under sunny skies in Martyr's Square where members of the parliamentary majority were to address the crowd. The rally comes as final preparations are underway in The Hague for the launch of the international tribunal set up to bring Hariri's killers to justice. It also comes as the country prepares for legislative elections in June that will pit Western-backed political parties against a Hezbollah-led alliance backed by Syria and Iran.Hariri died in a massive car bombing on February 14, 2005 that also killed 22 others. The assassination was widely blamed on then Lebanese power-broker Syria, which has denied any involvement. The attack on the Beirut seafront was one of the worst acts of political violence to rock Lebanon since t...
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