People are often reluctant to undergo a routine but painful colonoscopy -- but the consequences can be fatal.

The National Wildlife Federation has sounded a conservation alarm with that finding.

The president of the National Urban League said Thursday the problems exposed in New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina - like poverty and government ineptitude - aren't exclusive to this city.

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The U.N. General Assembly's human rights committee voted Thursday for the second year in a row to urge a global moratorium on the death penalty.

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Sri Lankan troops broke through a strategic front in the country's civil war on Thursday, overrunning an important rebel defense line north of the Tamil Tiger's de facto state, the military said.

While government forces have pushed deep into rebel-held territory from the south in recent months, the rebels have managed to counter repeated strikes launched by the military from the northern Jaffna peninsula.

But on Thursday, after three days of heavy fighting, troops broke through and captured the rebels' first line of defense at Muhamalai, advancing 800 yards, military spokesman Brig. Udaya Nanayakkara said. The rebels still maintain two other defense lines.

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