CARACAS (AFP) ― Ailing Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez is not in a coma and is responding well to cancer treatment in Cuba, making daily progress, his brother said Saturday.“Reports that the president is in a coma and that the family is discussing ending life support, are totally false,” Adan Chavez, governor of the state of Barinas, said in a statement.He “continues to respond well to his medical care and to make daily progress in his recovery.”Chavez has been out of public sight since undergo

New York‘s governor declared a public health emergency Saturday for the state because of the severity of the flu season, as officials across the U.S. grapple with the worst flu outbreak in several years.New York Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo’s executive order suspends for the next month the state law that limits the authority of pharmacists to administer immunizing agents only to individuals 18 years of age or older. Pharmacists now will also be allowed to administer flu vaccinations to patients between

A prominent porn producer in California has filed a lawsuit against Los Angeles County over its new law requiring porn actors to wear condoms during filming.Vivid Entertainment filed the lawsuit to overturn the law Friday in U.S. District Court in Los Angeles, the Los Angeles Times reported.The law, called Measure B, requires porn producers to purchase public health permits to film in Los Angeles County. The permits mandate that performers use condoms.Vivid alleges the law, which was approved by

Late BBC presenter Jimmy Savile was a predatory sex offender who abused children as young as eight over more than 50 years, using his fame and eccentricity to hide “in plain sight”, British police said Friday.A three-month investigation with the NSPCC children‘s charity found that Savile, one of the biggest TV stars in Britain in the 1970s and 1980s, took every opportunity to abuse young girls, boys and adult women across the country.He used his fame as presenter of BBC TV’s “Top of the Pops” ch