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Danish scientists say they are expecting new results that have left them "on the brink" of “finding a mass distributable and affordable cure to HIV."

Not just to keep it at bay, but to cure it for good.

Clinical trials are testing a “novel strategy” in which the HIV virus is stripped from DNA and destroyed permanently by the immune system.

The move would represent a dramatic step forward in the attempt to find a cure for the virus, which causes AIDS, which has killed millions worldwide.

Scientists are currently conducting human trials on their treatment, in the hope of proving that it is effective. It has already been found to work in lab tests.

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A Pennsylvania woman who went missing 11 years ago has surfaced in Florida, to the surprise - and dismay - of her husband and their two children.

Brenda Heist, 54, had been declared legally dead.

Lititz, Pa., Police Detective John Schofield said he met with her in Florida Monday and she expressed shame and apologized for what she did to her family.

She said she traveled there on a whim with homeless hitchhikers, slept under bridges and survived by scavenging food and panhandling, authorities said.

Brenda Heist says she was going through an amicable divorce in 2002 when she was turned down for housing assistance, which led her to despair.

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Kiera Wilmot, a 16-year old at Bartow High School in Florida, was expelled from school this week and now faces two felony charges after her what classmates have labeled a "science project gone bad."

According to WTSP, Wilmot was mixing household chemicals in an eight-ounce water bottle Monday morning when the bottle's top flew off and a mini explosion occurred.

No one was hurt the blast.

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Talk about a marriage proposal that LITERALLY made headlines.

Steve English bought a full-page ad in Norfolk, England's local newspaper, the Eastern Daily Press, to pop the question to his girlfriend, Hayley Groves.

When the ad was published, he bought a copy of the paper and casually suggested Groves look at it as they picnicked on the beach. Smooth.

The ad read, "Hayley Groves will you marry me? I love you with all my heart. We've been with each other for years and my love for you grows each year."

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A set of twins born 87 days apart have already made world history.

Not bad, considering both of the little girls are less than a year old!

Amy and Katie are adorable, healthy babies living in Waterford, Ireland, with mom Maria Jones-Elliot, dad Chris Elliot and siblings Olivia and Jack.

But for a time, it looked like both wouldn't make it.

“The doctors told me there was very little hope of them surviving as they were so premature," Maria recalled, explaining that her water broke at 23 weeks.

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Seven Americans were tragically killed in a 747 crash Monday, as a cargo airplane plummeted right after takeoff from Bagram Air Field in Afghanistan.

Now, a shocking dash-cam video of the tragic explosion has surfaced.

Take a look below, but note that the authenticity of the video has not been 100 percent established, and the footage may be extremely unsettling:

747 Crash

A spokesman for NATO's International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) said the cause of the 747 crash is unknown, but dismissed claims of terrorism.

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Three more suspects have been taken into custody in the Boston Marathon bombings, city police said in a surprising development Wednesday.

The Boston Police made the announcement in a tweet this morning.

Offering no details, they said more would soon follow. Police spokeswoman Cheryl Fiandaca confirmed the tweet but referred all questions to the FBI.

Three people were killed and more than 260 injured on April 15.

Suspect Tamerlan Tsarnaev died in a gunfight with police three days later. His brother, Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, was captured and is in a hospital prison.

It was widely believed that the brothers acted alone in plotting and carrying out the terrorist attack, so the basis for the new arrests should be very interesting.

Story developing ...

UPDATE: Prosecutors say Dias Kadyrbayev, 19, and Azamat Tazbayakov, 19, tried to conceal and destroy a laptop and fireworks belonging to Tsarnaev.

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Offering candid assessments of their less-than-stellar accommodations, some prison inmates are having way too much fun with review site Yelp.

Yes, purported inmates, employees and visitors have all been logging on to dish the details about penitentiaries from Rikers Island to San Quentin.

“Overall, the jail was pretty miserable,” one disgruntled reviewer wrote about a recent stay at Cook County Jail in Illinois after an arrest in Chicago.

“The beds were very uncomfortable and my bunkmate was frequently rude."

It wasn't a total catastrophe, however. The joint still earned 2/5 stars!

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May Day, celebrated on May 1, is an ancient spring festival that has taken on a variety of different meanings in different cultures over the centuries.

Historians believe that the origins of May Day date back (way back) to the Celtic festival of Beltane and the Germanic festival of Walpurgis Night.

May Day falls exactly half a year from November 1, another day linked with various northern European pagans and the calendar of the Northern Hemisphere.

Got all that?!?

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The family of Adam Holland, a Tennessee man with Down syndrome, is suing over a photo of him that has spawned a derogatory Internet meme.

The photo of a teenage Holland holding up a piece of art during a class at the Vanderbilt Kennedy Center in 2004 did not make waves until last year.

That's when modified versions of the family's Adam Holland photo that included defamatory messages began popping up on numerous websites.

In an attempt to quash the widespread use of the altered image, Holland's family filed a $18 million lawsuit last week against several online sources.

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