Pakistan has the highest rate of breast cancer cases recorded all over Asia, with an estimate of one in every nine women developing the disease in their lifetime, according to Dr Sana Zeeshan, a breast surgeon and the director of breast screening department at the city’s Agha Khan University Hospital. Observing “The Breast Cancer Awareness Month” with a “Pink Walk” …

Using sound cues, scientists have made study participants solve puzzles in their sleep. New research sheds light on the cognitive processes that occur in the brain as we sleep. In dreams, fragments of reality, imagination, and memory intermingle in timeline-agnostic narratives that make little sense upon waking. It seems to have something to do with memory reshuffling, and, indeed, studying …

At the South by Southwest festival in Austin, Candice Quarles stood in line with her husband, Jeremiah, around the time he pulled out his city of DeSoto credit card to buy barbecue. At Disney World, she tweeted from the theme park on the same day he charged still more personal meals to taxpayers. “We came. We ate. We stood in …

A woman was arrested on a drunken driving charge early Saturday after she hit a police car, parked with its overhead lights flashing, in Old East Dallas. Melissa Mejia faces a charge of driving while intoxicated.(Dallas County Jail) Officers were sitting in the squad car about 2:15 a.m. waiting for a tow truck to take another vehicle away when a …

Homicide detectives are investigating a deadly shooting late Friday in southeast Fort Worth, police said. The shooting was reported about 9:30 p.m. in a neighborhood along Burton Avenue, off East Berry Street near Cobb Park. The victim was found dead in a vehicle parked outside a home, police spokesman Brad Perez said. His name has yet to be released. A …

Voters have begun the process of picking a successor to Eric Johnson, who left the Texas Legislature to become Dallas mayor. But turnout in Dallas’ House District 100, where Johnson served for nearly 10 years, is expected to be light, as residents select between three contenders trying to win their first elected office and a former Dallas council member and …

This report is being continuously updated. Two people died after at least 12 people were shot about midnight Saturday at an off-campus Texas A&M University-Commerce party near Greenville. Four other people were injured, but Hunt County Sheriff Randy Meeks did not detail their injuries. He did say some people had been hurt by broken glass as they tried to escape. …

The streaming television war is set to enter a new phase as titans Apple and Disney take direct aim at market leader Netflix, vying for consumers abandoning their cable TV bundles for on-demand services. The shift away from “linear” television is likely to escalate with powerful new entrants to streaming coming this year and in early 2020. The new landscape …

NASA lost its ability to launch humans from U.S. soil when the space shuttle retired. Now, companies and billionaire entrepreneurs are defining a new space age. Christian Davenport, Jonathan Newton, Whitney Leaming, Whitney Shefte, Courtney Kan, Thomas Simonetti, Robert Miller and Julie Vitkovskaya

Are you exceptionally fond of your face? More specifically: Are you so fond of your face that you would like to see it plastered on a global fleet of humanoid robots for years to come? If you answered “yes” to both questions — which would hardly be surprising in the “selfie” era — a British engineering and manufacturing firm wants …