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RANGOON, Myanmar – The ruling junta in Burma, also known as Myanmar, lashed out Thursday at aid donors who promised millions of dollars for cyclone relief, saying survivors didn’t need “bars of chocolate.” A day after global powers expressed outrage at Burma’s decision to extend pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu …

A 2-year-old boy in England suffers from a rare genetic disease sometimes referred to as Children’s Alzheimer’s disease, the U.K.’s Daily Telegraph reports. Taylor Smith, of Barrow-in-Furness in Cumbria, England, has been diagnosed with Niemann-Pick disease, type C, a disease that will cause him to develop signs of dementia before …

AMSTETTEN, Austria – The sister-in-law of an Austrian man accused of imprisoning his daughter for 24 years in a dingy dungeon and fathering seven children with her said he treated his family like a “tyrant.” In an exclusive television interview with The Associated Press, a woman who identified herself as …