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CAIRO – Egypt’s forensics authority on Tuesday dismissed a doctor who said last weekend that a female protester killed by police in January died because she did not have enough body fat to protect against shotgun pellets. Authority head Mahmoud Ahmed Ali also said in his statement that all doctors …

NEW YORK – If you want to be en vogue this summer, take a cue from 1950s TV moms June Cleaver and Lucy Ricardo. The ’50s housewife look is back this season — dresses with full skirts that fall below the knee, form-fitting jackets and dainty, feminine high heels.Marc Jacobs‘ …

WARSAW, Poland – Tadeusz Konwicki, a prominent Polish writer and filmmaker whose works during the communist era lampooned the authoritarian Soviet-imposed system, has died. He was 88. Konwicki is best known for his novels “A Minor Apocalypse,” a satire of life in a totalitarian state, and “The Polish Complex,” a …