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One of the bleakest places on Earth today is the central processing facility for the remains of dead soldiers in the Russian city of Rostov-on-Don, the logistical hub of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Designed to process hundreds of corpses at a time, this sprawling mega-morgue has been hopelessly overwhelmed for many months. Footage from the inside, posted by witnesses on social media, shows hundreds of bodies in various stages of decomposition and limbs strewn across the corridor floors. In wooden boxes lining the walls from floor to ceiling, row after row after row, are the lucky ones: those whose bodies...

WASHINGTON - Large pension funds and companies called Monday for Congress to create a cap-and-trade system for curbing emissions of carbon dioxide and other gases blamed for global warming, the latest among several business-oriented groups to call for a national climate policy. The 65 signers of a letter to President Bush called for a 60 to 90 percent reduction of greenhouse gas emissions from 1990 levels by 2050, a goal that could require, among other changes, a major shift away from fossil fuels used to run power plants and automobiles. The letter promotes a market-based system that would give companies...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Living in the suburbs may have once been part of the American dream but it can lead to nightmares such as high blood pressure, arthritis and headaches, researchers reported on Monday. An adult living somewhere like Atlanta, with its spread-out suburbs and car-heavy culture, will have a health profile that looks like that of someone who lives in Seattle -- but who is four years older, the study found. And the culprit seems to be exercise, or the lack of it, the researchers report in the October issue of the journal Public Health. "This is the first...