BEIJING, Aug. 6 (UPI) -- Four American Olympic cyclists apologized Wednesday for wearing black face masks when they got off the airplane that had taken them to the Beijing Games.

ABINGDON, Va., July 21 (UPI) -- A federal judge in Virginia ordered three Purdue Pharma executives to work for 400 hours in drug treatment programs for their marketing of OxyContin.

OBERSALZBERG, Estonia, Feb. 24 (UPI) -- A Jewish leader in Germany has termed as tasteless a luxury hotel set to open March 1 on the site of Adolf Hitler's Alpine retreat at Obersalzberg in Bavaria.

LAKEWOOD, Ohio, June 6 (UPI) -- After more than three decades, the war on cancer has produced numerous breakthrough chemotherapy treatments that have turned some cancers from killers into chronic diseases, but the war will not be won until cancer can be prevented.

A group of cancer experts is pushing a new line on treating the disease: Age is not what it used to be, as far as a barrier to aggressive cancer treatment is concerned.

WASHINGTON, March 25 (UPI) -- Madonna's new anti-war single will be available next month online only. But will consumers buy, either the music or the message?

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WASHINGTON, Nov. 2 (UPI) -- Even if 300 million doses of updated smallpox vaccine arrive as promised by the end of 2002, local public health agencies need federal help to use that vaccine