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PRISTINA, Serbia-Montenegro – Kosovo President Ibrahim Rugova, the ethnic Albanian leader and embodiment of the province’s decades-long struggle for independence from Serbia, died of lung cancer Saturday without seeing his dream fulfilled. He was 61. The United Nations currently administers Kosovo, and Rugova’s death leaves the province’s political scene in …

BOSTON – The holidays are over. Adult children and grandchildren have returned from visiting aging parents and grandparents over the winter break. And now the hard part begins. Millions of adult children now have to deal with or continue dealing with the cottage industry known as long-distance caregiving. At present, …

NEW ORLEANS – A Tennessee man’s claim that the maker of the withdrawn painkiller Vioxx should be blamed for his 2003 heart attack was rejected Wednesday by a federal jury, the fourth victory for drug maker Merck & Co. (MRK) in five federal trials. The seven-member jury answered “no” on …