Syrian cabinet resigns today amid ongoing protest against president Bashar al-Assad. The Syrian president has accepted the resignation of the cabinet. "President Assad accepts the government's resignation," an announcement on state television said on Tuesday. Assad has nominated Naji al-Otari, the resigning premier, as caretaker prime minister. The Syrian cabinet enjoys little power as the power is concentrated in the hand of Assad, his family and the security forces. Otari is the premier of the country since 2003.

Southwest Airlines decided to ground 81 of its older airplanes for emergency inspections after another airplane developed a hole in its roof during flight.

U.S. corn acreage will be the second largest this year, since 1944, as farm profits surged while the rising demand for food and fuel caused cuts in world stockpiles.

Diddy topped the Forbes magazine’s list of the world's richest rappers. Jay-Z followed in the second place with a fortune of $450 million, slipping from the first position he had earned last year.

Google had to shelve its plans to create the world's largest digital library and bookstore this week.

The latest reports coming from Houston suggest that the Green Bay Packers defensive man Johnny Jolly has once again been arrested on the charges of drug usage with the intent of distribution. The incident happened at midnight on Friday.

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By Tabitha Reuben Researchers from University College London have claimed that Statins are safe and effective for patients with liver enzyme abnormalities and they also improve the function of the liver in these patients. Dimitri P. Mikhailidis, MD, of University College London, and colleagues said in their study that liver test results in patients with moderately abnormal liver tests at baseline improved with statin treatment. "The risk-to-benefit ratio of long-term statin treatment favors statin administration even for patients with moderately abnormal liver tests," the authors wrote.