According to reports, the Wall Street listed company Goldman Sachs has been fined with 20 million pounds by the Financial Services Authority (FSA), which is the city regulator of UK.

This fine applied on the Wall Street giant because the company did not report FSA that it had gone through investigation for fraud by the US financial regulator in this summer. Goldman Sachs has settled the fraud case with the Security and Exchange Commission by paying a fine of 550 million dollars in the July.

The Scottish oil firm Dana Petroleum has rejected a hostile takeover bid worth 18 pounds per share from the Korean oil firm KNOC which is the government owned company of Korea. This rejection was happened as the company released an independent report that valued the Dana shares in between 21.20 pounds and 24.65 pounds per share.

The shareholders of Dana are expecting the KNOC to come up with a higher offer than its previous one of 1.8 billion pounds.

Around 20 unfamiliar objects were found in the paining arm of a teenage girl.

The girl aging 16, experienced excruciating pain in arm and then visited the emergency room. On getting her ultrasound, the doctors discovered objects like a paper clip, a screw from a pair of eyeglasses and various pieces of pencil lead.

The girl was suffering from “self-embedding", a phenomenon in which the adolescents have the tendency to damage their bodies by inserting glass, wood, metal or other materials under the skin, but they don’t have any inclination towards attempting suicide.

The Canadian Health services believe that September is a good time to emphasize on good dental habits and it has therefore decided to bring about the necessary changes required to avert the unnecessary dental visits.

“Back-to-school is an ideal time for parents to reinforce some of the key preventative strategies to good dental health including daily brushing and flossing, making healthy food and drink choices and visiting the dentist for an examination”, says Dr. Bruce Ward, British Columbia Dental Association President.

A recall of 2.27-kilogram packages of Cowboy Beef Burgers has been demanded by Leadbetters Foods Inc., of Orillia, Ont., for there is a potential fear that these might be contaminated with E. coli. This recall has been ordered by Orillia, Ont.-based manufacturer Leadbetters Foods Inc.

This food-borne bacterium, has given rise to an outburst of E. coli in Ontario which is said to have put several lives under threat. This poisoning by E. coli leads to kidney damage, seizures, diarrhea and in some cases even death.

The sexually transmitted infection is increasing in the baby boomer generation in Britain. The infection is mainly found in people who are above 50 years.

Flamily Planning Association (FPA), which is a health charity, has come up with a campaign, where they are urging the baby boomers to have safe sex and use condoms.

The campaign is taking the help of some fashion advertisements of 1960s and 70s.

The Canadian Diabetes Association has said that in order to tackle the growing problem of diabetes in Ontario, the Government should devise an enhanced diabetes strategy.

On Wednesday, a report was unveiled by the Canadian Diabetes Association, which speculates that the economic expenditure of diabetes in Ontario will touch $4.9 billion in direct and indirect monetary costs, in the year 2010.

And in the absence of a diabetes strategy, this number will accelerate to $7 billion by 2020, where one in four Ontarians will be having diabetes or becoming pre-diabetic.

In southeastern Saskatchewan, two human beings have been bitten by Culex tarsals. Culex tarsals is a hot-weather mosquito and is responsible for the transmission of West Nile virus in human beings.

The two men are between 45 and 55 years and developed minor symptoms. They are being treated and will soon recuperate.

In 2007, as many as 2,000 cases of West Nile were registered all over Canada and the number reduced to 36 in 2008. The number of cases since then has gone down significantly.

A 32-year-old man from Brabant Lake was found in an inebriated state in a public place. He was then arrested by the officers from the LaRonge detachment.

The officers put him behind the bars for about 12 hours. In the custody, he complained of some uneasiness and asked for immediate medical treatment.

He was then taken to Royal University Hospital in Saskatoon in an aircraft. At around 4 in the morning, the LaRonge RCMP officers were informed that the man has died in the hospital.

Canadian Polyamory Advocacy Association has put its faith in the legislation by going to court for the legalization of polyamory.

The group has stated polyamory to be a grouping of people who are together for more than sexual relations and instead they state it is the love which binds a polyamorous group. They further opined that in a polyamorous group literally anything goes and there is no discrimination, they further add that polyamory can involve as many men and as many women together.

Melanie Finley, a resident of Fort Lauderdale would be looking to raise the flag for the fight against ovarian cancer this month. Ironically, the month happens to be known as the Ovarian Cancer Awareness Month.

According to Melanie Finley who is also the founder of Melanie Finley Ovarian Cancer Foundation (MFOC), if a woman is feeling fatigued, bloating, discomfort and an irregular menstrual cycle she should immediately get herself screened for ovarian cancer.

A man from Bribie Island, who owned a secretive lab, in which he produced illegal drugs for his sister’s pain management, as claimed by him, has tried to avoid jail following courts trial.

The Queensland Supreme Court in Brisbane was informed this morning that the 51 year old, John Hamilton Dyer would make small packs of the drug ‘speed’ for almost one year, prior to the police searching his house in the month of October 2008, and got its hands-on a chemical.

The Monash Obesity and Diabetes Institute (MODI) at Monash University, Melbourne seems to have discovered a simple answer for people suffering from obesity, to cut down on high-fat diets.

Researchers at MODI discovered that a high-fat diet led the brain cells, which sends out vital signals to the body, to stop the consumption of food and start burning the fat to insulate that leads to the malfunction of cells and as a result, the person overeats.

According to a new study done by Israeli researchers from Maccabi Healthcare Services in Tel Aviv, the risk of developing rheumatoid arthritis (RA) can be significantly decreased by resorting to cholesterol-lowering drug named ‘Statin’.

For the study, data of 1.8 million members of Israel’s Maccabi Healthcare Services HMO were analysed. As many as 2,578 people from the group were detected with RA between the years 1998 and 2007.

The Edmonton Operational Stress Injury Clinic, which is run by Alberta Health Services, is the first of its kind to treat the post traumatic stress disorder and its symptoms. Earlier, soldiers were left to their therapists to handle the situations, but Edmonton is now offering the soldiers, officers and families the needed specialized help in the field of mental illnesses caused by war experiences.