Doherty nearly had his arm amputated due to infection

August 21st, 2009 WASHINGTON - Scientists from Imperial College London have found that parasite leishmania tricks immune system to let it enter the body and cause skin infection. Leishmaniasis is an infection caused by Leishmania parasites that cause disfiguring and painful skin ulcers, and in severe cases the infection can also spread to the internal organs.

June 30th, 2009 Byrd released from hospital after more than monthWASHINGTON — Sen. Robert Byrd's office says he's been released from the hospital and is at his Washington-area home recuperating from a more-than monthlong illness.

June 14th, 2009 WASHINGTON - Bill Clinton's headlong jump into the 2010 election cycle to support his family's long term supporters might have gone unnoticed, but the former US president has deployed all his political star power to campaign for allies in eight states. While media attention has focused largely on Clinton's campaign on behalf of former Democratic National Committee Chairman Terry McAuliffe's unsuccessful bid, it has now emerged that his efforts on behalf of the longtime Clinton family fundraiser were just a small part of a larger, ongoing payback tour, The Politico reports.

June 2nd, 2009 Byrd's condition a guarded secretWASHINGTON — Sen. Robert C. Byrd, 91, remained hospitalized Tuesday, receiving treatment for a staph infection that has extended his stay at an undisclosed facility to nearly three weeks.

March 27th, 2009 WASHINGTON - Troubled rocker Pete Doherty is reportedly in talks to write a TV drama. According to reports, producers at the BBC are certain that Babyshambles hitmaker would be able to use his experience with substance abuse, and battle with addictions to heroin and cocaine, in writing the drama.

March 26th, 2009 LONDON - While most people thought that supermodel Kate Moss would have turned her back on needles after leaving her former rocker-lover Pete Doherty, she has had her ear pierced five times. Kate's ear looked full of rings when she was pictured leaving a London tattoo parlour.

March 24th, 2009 LONDON - Brit singer Pete Doherty has revealed that he would not mind head-butting Kate Moss' man Jamie Hince and running off with her. Doherty, 30, who is still madly in love with Moss, even reckons he would come to blows with Hince if they ever crossed paths, and being asked to stay away from a Lily Allen gig because of Moss, did not help matters much.

March 24th, 2009 WASHINGTON - Pete Doherty, who's the former lover of supermodel Kate Moss, has revealed that he's thought about head-butting her new beau Jamie Hince. Doherty revealed that he still misses Kate and feels jealous whenever he sees her with Hince.

March 19th, 2009 LONDON - Brit musician Pete Doherty recently showed his stubborn streak by refusing to end a gig even after bosses at the venue turned the lights off. Doherty, 30, who had been drinking Guinness throughout the show, ignored pleas to get off the stage, and continued to play for 25 minutes beyond the 11pm curfew on March 15.

March 15th, 2009 LONDON - Pete Doherty was left in tears and had almost decided to abandon his band after a fan's underwear prank during a gig. The Babyshambles frontman revealed several years ago he had thrown himself at the Dundee crowd in Scotland when a fan got hold of his pants and fiercely pulled them upwards.

March 14th, 2009 WASHINGTON - Carbon dioxide released from the Antartic Ocean due to shifting wind patterns may drastically increase global warming, say scientists. Many scientists think that the end of the last ice age was triggered by a change in earth's orbit that caused the northern part of the planet to warm.

March 12th, 2009 LONDON - Pete Doherty has said that he is happy being single and has vowed to stay away from women. "I just don't want to inflict myself on any girl," the Sun quoted him, as saying.

February 15th, 2009 WASHINGTON - Diarrhoea claims nearly two million people annually, the bulk of them being from poor countries in Africa and Asia. The disease accounts for 18 percent of all deaths among children - and yet is almost always preventable with proper treatment.

February 11th, 2009 LONDON - Pop star Michael Jackson is suffering from MRSA skin disease, which could eat his flesh. According to thesun.co.uk, Jackson has been receiving antibiotics through drip and the disease has apparently spread throughout his body.

January 18th, 2009 LONDON - Troubled rocker Pete Doherty seems to be interested in singer Amy Winehouse. Mirror.co.uk reports that Winehouse's friends say that a funeral wreath was sent to her hotel along with a poem from Doherty who told Winehouse that he was sending the wreath as a sign of celebration since he thought her marriage to her husband Blake Fielder Civil is almost ended.