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MOSCOW – Moscow authorities expressed concern Monday about the rise of “surrogate” gambling technologies such as lottery machines and online gambling three months after an almost total ban on gambling in Russia. “We are seriously concerned about the rise of surrogate technologies,” Moscow deputy mayor Sergei Baidakov said at a …

BOSTON – Lawyers for the German-born man who calls himself Clark Rockefeller are asking a Boston judge to throw out his kidnapping and assault convictions. The defense is challenging the credibility of the state’s mental health expert. They also fault the prosecutor for telling jurors not to allow Rockefeller to …

Scientists from Germany have identified a shared genetic link between the dental disease periodontitis and heart disease. “Our study demonstrates that coronary heart disease and periodontitis are genetically related,” Dr. Arne Schaefer, of the Institute for Clinical Molecular Biology, University of Kiel, Germany, and colleagues reported to the European Society …