Brian O’Driscoll be unleashed by Leinster when they welcome Munster to the RDS on Saturday night (k.o: 6.30pm).

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Closing schools and day care centers because of swine flu could cost between $10 billion and $47 billion, a report by the Brookings Institution think tank found.

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About 4 million people are now getting AIDS drugs worldwide — a 10-fold jump in five years — but 5 million others are still in dire need of the medicine, U.N. health officials estimated in a report issued Wednesday.

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Veterinarians say it’s not unusual for some dogs and cats to reach 15 years or more, and they’re seeing more and more pets do so.

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U.S. military troops will begin getting required swine flu shots in the next week to 10 days,  a top military commander said Tuesday.

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Being fat in middle age may slash women’s chances of making it to their golden years in good health by almost 80 percent, a new study says.

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U.S. mortgage applications fell last week despite the lowest loan rates in four months, the Mortgage Bankers Association said.

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Here are some pointers for navigating the terrain of a federal government’s program meant to help you cut your mortgage payments. That is, if you qualify.

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Six recruitment agencies are fined a total of almost £40m for price-fixing and boycotting an intermediary company.

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The US economy shrank at an annual pace of 0.7% between April and June, not 1% as previous estimates had said.

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