European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - April 22, 2007, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 10 stars and St pipes sunday april 22 2qq7 Wong Maye Emp Petra Milosevic forgo 7 who is being treated for acute Lymphocyte in leukaemia looks at a Container of sequins during play therapy As she Waits to see her doctor april 19 at the National University Hospital paediatric oncology Center in Singapore As a medical research Hub cancer rates to go up in Asia by Margie Mason the associated press Singapore the number of cancer cases in Asia is set to Rise dramatically by 2020 due largely to longer life spans and changing lifestyles threaten ing a health crisis As poorer countries in the Region struggle to keep up a fast growing population coupled with people Liv ing longer and undergoing extreme changes to diet and lifestyle will place a major Burden on develop ing countries that screening vaccines and expensive experts said at the Start of a today conference in Singapore Many believe that cancer is somehow Only a problem of affluent and aging societies thais not True of course said Richard Horton editor and publisher of the lancet medical journal which is sponsoring the conference others believe cancer is somehow inevitable that one is predisposed to it genetically again not True forty percent of cancers can be prevented by simple changes in lifestyle cancer of the lungs stomach and liver Are the big Gest problems in Asia followed by breast and Colon cancers the total number of new cancer cases in the Region is projected to balloon from 45 million in 2002 to 71 million in 2020 if nothing changes this will put a tremendous Burden on patients their families and the health care system in each country said Singapore health minister Khaw Boon wan Singapore will not be spared cancer is already our top killer and we Are bracing ourselves for the disease Burden to increase As our population Ages lung cancer is the biggest problem in Asia with 600000 new cases reported annually smoking is considered a major contributor in several asian nations More than 60 percent of the male population smokes said or Donald Max Parkin a research fellow at the University of oxfords clinical trial service unit and epidemiological studies unit asians the epicentre of the smoking epidemic at the moment Parkin said stomach cancer is also on the Rise in Asia but the risk can be greatly reduced by regular exercise and having a healthy diet thais Low in Salt and fatty foods preventing hepatitis b through vaccination also helps lower the chances of developing liver can cer also a major problem for the Region Parkin said nigerians overcome turmoil vote the associated press Kano Nigeria voters seek ing a new Leader Able to provide lifes basics overcame a failed truck bombing at Nigeria elec toral commission Headquarters and polling station disarray to cast ballots saturday in general elections meant to Cement demo cratic Rule in Africa unruly giant graft has hobbled Africa top Oil producer throughout a coup prone 47year history that has never before seen Power transferred from one elected civil Ian to another while most of the 140 million people in Africa most populous nation Are deeply poor living in slums without Safe water Good schools or health clinics a tiny elite lives behind guarded Walls whoever wins should know were not asking too much we just want regular Power and clean water said Amina dogo an impoverished 62yearold woman who voted in Kano dozens died in the sunup to the presidential and National parliamentary vote and violence continued in the predawn hours with a failed truck bombing at the Gates of the electoral commission head quarters in me capital Abuja Many voting centers opened nonetheless but Many Well after the official Start if at All and those that did were plagued by delays and what the opposition described As irregularities polling hours were 10 am to 5 pm but those still in line at 5 pm were allowed to vote a successful election would be key to advancing democracy Here and across the continent despite massive natural and human potential Nigeria has Long been known As the sick Man of Afri Ca and viewed As nearly ungovernable Pope reverses limbo teaching by Nicole Winfield the associated press Vatican City Pope Bene dict Xvi has reversed centuries of traditional roman Catholic teach ing on so called limbo approving a Vatican report that says there were serious grounds to Hope that children who die without being baptized can go to heaven theologians said the move was highly significant both for what it says about Benedicts willing Ness to Buck a longstanding Tenet of Catholic belief and for what it Means theologically about the Church vie son heaven hell and original sin sin that the Faith Ful believe All children Are born with although catholics have Long believed that children who die with out being baptized Are with original sin and thus sex Pope eluded from heaven the Church has no formal doctrine on the mat Ter theologians however have Long taught that such children enjoy an eternal state of perfect natural happiness a state commonly called limbo but without being in communion with god if theres no limbo and were not going to revert to St August Ines teaching that unbaptized infants go to hell were left with Only one option namely that everyone is bom Iii the state of said the Rev Richard Mcbrien professor of theology at the University of notre Dame baptism does not exist to wipe away the Stein of original sin but to initiate one into the he said in an emailed response Friday Benedict approved the findings of the International theological commission a Vatican advisory panel which said it was reassess ing traditional teaching on limbo in Light of pressing pastoral needs primarily the growing number of abortions and infants born to nonbelievers who die without Beisig baptized while me report does not carry the authority of a papal encyclical or even the weight of a formal document from Congre gation for of the Faith it was approved by the Pope on Jan 19 and was published on the an Indica Tion that it was intended to be widely read by the faithful we can say we have Many Rea sons to Hope that there is Salva Tion for these babies the Rev Luis Ladaria a Jesuit who is the commissions Secretary general told the associated press he stressed that there was no certainty just Hope autopsy says Volunteer died from blows to head Manila to the head killed a us peace corps Volunteer who was found buried in a shallow grave in a Northern Philip Pine Mountain Village officials said saturday after an autopsy Julia Campbell 40 of Fairfax a suffered multiple Blunt traumatic injuries of the head police chief inspector Mamerto Bernabe a pathologist who headed the autopsy told reporters at a suburban funeral parlor this Only Means that her death want an Accident crime Laboratory head chief superintendent Arturo Cacdac egyptian Canadian convicted of spying for Israel Cairo Egypt an egyptian Canadian Inan was convicted of spy ing for Israel and sentenced to 15 years in prison by Security court on saturday three israelis tried in absent a on spying charges also received 15 years in prison Mohammed Elattar 30 who had pleaded not guilty flashed a Victory sign when he entered the courtroom surrounded by dozens of Security personnel Elattar who had been on trial since feb 24 at the state Security emergency court in Cairo was rushed to a waiting police Van after the verdict was issued Abe no plans to match chivas military spending Tokyo Japan has no plans to boost its defense spending to keep up with chivas own rising military spending japanese prime minis Ter Shinzo Abe has told us reporters the comments by Abe who is slated to meet with president Bush during a visit to the us on thursday and Friday came in separate interviews with Newsweek Magazine and the Wall Street journal that took place tuesday at the prime ministers office Russia american tourist return to Earth Korolyov Russia a russian cosmonaut and an american astronaut returned to Earth on saturday along with a us billionaire whose paid voyage to the International space station ended with a land ing on the kazakh Steppe the capsule carrying Mikhail Turin Michael Lopez Alegria and space tourist Charles Simonyi a hungarian born software Engineer touched Down after a More than three hour return trip from the Orbital station a spokesman said in an announcement at Mission control out Side Moscow from the associated press