Coughing and sneezing on crowded trains and buses can spread deadly flesh-eating superbugs, commuters are being warned. Metro UK By Fred Attewill The bacteria are more virulent than the infamous hospital MRSA, can affect otherwise healthy people… more »

  MSNBC / By M. Alex Johnson, msnbc.com Al-Qaida remains a threat, but intense U.S.-led pressure is working and could relegate it and similar organizations to having only "symbolic importance," the nation's intelligence chief said Tuesday. When… more »

ABC NewsBy MATTHEW MOSK, BRIAN ROSS (@brianross) and RYM MOMTAZ Compelling new scientific evidence suggests United Nations peacekeepers have carried a virulent strain of cholera -- a super bug -- into the Western Hemisphere for the first… more »

  Fox News / By Charles Q. Choi Astronomers have found more real-life versions of Luke Skywalker's home planet Tatooine from "Star Wars" — alien worlds that see two suns rise and set each day instead of one. And these two newfound worlds are al… more »

The Los Angeles Times A 15-year-old Texas girl who claimed to be an illegal immigrant and was deported to Colombia will be returning home to the United States on Friday, according to federal immigration officials. U.S. Immigration officials said t… more »