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The traditions and parties associated with the days before Lent are popular festivals and tourist destinations for locations like Venice, New Orleans, and Rio de Janeiro.

Pancake Day, or Shrove Tuesday, is part of Shrovetide. Historically, Christians would make pancakes to use up the kitchen leftovers before Lent, a time of fasting.

American scientists have for the first time, decoded the whole genome of a typical cancer : A Acute Myeloid Leukemia of a woman carrying a deadly form of the disease.

A fireworks fiesta on the shores of Lake Wakatipu opens the 35th anniversary of Queenstown's Winter Festival. The next ten days present a cornucopia of fun-filled events.