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I'm only posting this because I think this is what's wrong with today's news. Do we really need to be nosy, And prying into other people's lives.

Fat can be directly converted into muscle, scientists have discovered, raising new hope for overweight people.Now one team has shown how to promote the manufacture of "good" brown fat, so we can burn more calories, while a second team, another US team in Boston, has shown how brown fat and muscle are linked, suggesting ways to interconvert the two.

The House Judiciary Committee sent letters to a top former CIA official as well as two aides to Vice President Dick Cheney (including Scooter Libby) after a prominent author claimed that Cheney's office pushed the CIA to develop a phony letter linking Saddam Hussein to 9/11 to aid their argument for a preemptive strike on Iraq.

The Grammy Award-winning singer announced a plan Wednesday to give a digital copy of her album "Detours" to the first 50,000 people who register three friends to vote.

A Home Office contractor has lost a memory stick containing the personal details of thousands of criminals.

Gary Glitter is on board a flight bound for London's Heathrow airport from Bangkok, the Foreign Office has confirmed.

A 16-year-old boy who plunged to his death from a block of flats was trying to escape a gang of masked youths.

New amateur video showing the devastating aftermath of the holiday jet crash that killed 153 people at Madrid's Barajas airport has been released.

Superhuman sprinter Usain Bolt has been slammed by Olympic chiefs for excessive "showboating" on the eve of his bid for a third gold medal.

A teenage girl has been killed on her way to collect her GCSE results.

The Taliban in Pakistan say they carried out a double suicide blast at a government arms factory near the country's capital.

Millions of people have been hit by double-digit energy bill hikes after two of the UK's "big six" companies put up their prices.

Kerry Katona has been made bankrupt at a High Court hearing after failing to pay an £82,000 tax bill.

Londoner Phillips Idowu has had to settle for an Olympic silver medal in the triple jump after British sailing duo Iain Percy and Andrew Simpson earlier claimed gold.

As prices for crude oil and other commodities ease, Americans have gotten a small dose of relief at the gas pump. But don't expect less pain at the grocery counter.Food inflation is to stay — and will probably get worse for some things.That's because retail prices for cereal, eggs, cheese and meat generally lag by several months

A Los Angeles County medical marijuana case, which most agree would never have seen a courtroom in Mendocino County, has raised questions on whether any limits imposed by the legislature to the Compassionate Use Act is constitutional. Last Wednesday the California Supreme Court unanimously agreed to hear the case of California vs Patrick Kelly.

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John McCain's campaign office in Denver, Colorado, has received a letter containing a threat and "an amount of white powder in it," a McCain campaign spokesman told CBS News.

When you fill up your gas tank, are you actually getting all the fuel you pay for? That's the question our CBS News Investigative Unit and some affiliate reporters set out to answer all across the country.

New discoveries surrounding a type of "good" fat that promotes the burning of calories could one day lead to better treatments for obesity, researchers say.