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<p>Broccoli eaten raw may be the best way to take advantage of its cancer-fighting compounds.</p>

Cooking (Or Not Cooking) Broccoli To Protect Its Nutritional Riches

Cooking broccoli too long destroys the beneficial enzyme that breaks down chemicals into cancer fighters. The best way to eat it is raw or steamed for just two to three minutes, a nutrition expert says.

<p>The Saudi ambassador to the U.S., Adel al-Jubeir, speaks to the press in Annapolis, Md., in 2007. The U.S. government said Tuesday that elements in the Iranian military plotted to kill the ambassador.</p>

U.S.: Iranians Paid Others To Kill Saudi Diplomat

Part of Iran's military force was planning a bomb attack on Saudi Arabia's ambassador to the United States, the government says. One suspect was arrested last month; another remains at large in the Middle East.

Jailing Of Ukrainian Opposition Leader Sparks Outrage In Europe

The opposition leader Yulia Tymoshenko was sentenced to seven years in jail and analysts say it signals that the Ukraine is headed toward a Russian-style autocratic rule.

<p>Joe Latina, 71, volunteered for a study of vitamin E pills as a means for reducing the risk for prostate cancer. Men who were randomly assigned to take vitamin E were 17 percent more likely to get prostate cancer than those getting a placebo.</p>

Vitamin E Pills May Raise, Not Lower, Prostate Cancer Risk

The largest study yet to test whether daily vitamin E supplements could reduce the risk of prostate cancer finds they may have the opposite effect, raising the chances of illness by 17 percent.

<p>President Obama speaks about job creation and the economy at the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers Local No. 5 Training Center in Pittsburgh on Tuesday.</p>

Jobs Bill Defeated Despite Presidential Push

Ever since President Obama proposed his $447 billion jobs bill in a joint address to Congress last month, he has been campaigning for it nonstop. But Senate Republicans voted Tuesday to kill the measure. Now Democrats hope to consider the proposals piece by piece.

<p>Adel al-Jubeir, shown in this 2004 photo, is Saudi Arabia's ambassador to the U.S. and was the target of an Iranian assassination plot, according to the U.S. government.</p>

U.S. Drawn Into Long-Running Iran-Saudi Feud

The foiled plot to kill Saudi Arabia's ambassador to the U.S. is not likely to lead to military reprisals, analysts say. But it will increase tension within a set of tangled relationships.

<p>Demonstrators outside the court where lawyers for Mumtaz Qadri, the confessed killer of the Punjab Governor Salman Taseer, petitioned the court to hear an appeal to overturn the death sentence against Qadri handed down by an Anti-Terror Court earlier this month. </p>

Pakistani Court Will Hear Appeal Of Confessed-Killer Mumtaz Qadri

Mumtaz Qadri was sentenced to death for the killing of a governor, but supporters rallied behind him saying he killed in defense of Pakistan's tough blasphemy laws.

<p>Adrian Beltre of the Texas Rangers is hit by a pitch from the Tampa Bay Rays' James Shields on Oct. 1 at Rangers Ballpark in Arlington, Texas.</p>

Pain At The Plate: Heat Increases Pitcher Retaliation

It's been known for years that when temperatures are hotter, pitchers are more likely to hit batters with pitches. A new study finds that heat also increases a pitcher's likelihood of retaliating by hitting an opposing batter when players from his team were hit earlier in the game.

Should Minor Offenders Be Subject To Strip Searches?

For decades, most courts did not allow widespread strip searches, but in recent years, the tide has turned. On Wednesday, the Supreme Court hears arguments for a case testing whether prison guards may constitutionally strip-search even minor traffic offenders when they are arrested and taken to jail.

<p>This courtroom drawing shows Manssor Arbabsiar (front, right), appearing before U.S. Southern District Court Judge Michael H. Dolinger on Tuesday.</p>

Alleged Terror Plot: 'Brazen And Bizarre'

If two Iranians, possibly with the support of some in Iran's government, did try to hire Mexican drug cartel members to kill Saudi Arabia's ambassador to the U.S., it's a bold and ominous development, analysts say.

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