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Indian athlete Santhi Soundarajan was stripped of her  800m silver medal at the 2006 Asian Games after failing a gender test and later attempted  to die by suicide.  She worries that Caster Semenya will be subject to the same humiliation. 

She told BBC Radio 5 live's Victoria Derbyshire show: "It was a very bitter and humiliating experience for me.

"Sports federations should come up with a solution to this, rather than ostracising somebody."

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MICHAEL Jackson was killed by a shot of powerful painkiller Demerol given by an aide as his personal medic Dr Conrad Murray slept, The Sun can reveal.

Dr Murray is reported to have confessed to cops that he had ALREADY given the singer surgical anaesthetic Propofol that same day.

Jackson is feared to have woken when the effects wore off and demanded pain relief.

The Demerol was duly administered by the compliant aide - with devastating effects.

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Sting is "beside himself with worry" after his daughter suffered a serious head injury.

The musician - real name Gordon Sumner - and wife Trudie Styler dashed to the intensive care unit at a Los Angeles hospital where Coco Sumner was taken after fracturing her skull last week.

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A singer from Germany's most successful girl group has been arrested on suspicion that she infected an ex-partner with the HIV virus, prosecutors confirmed today.

Nadja Benaissa, 26, a member of the No Angels band, is accused of sleeping with three men without telling them that she was HIV positive. One is believed to have become infected as a result.

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Star's honesty has improved screening rates

OTTAWA — The actress Natasha Richardson, who died on Wednesday from a brain hemorrhage after a fall on a beginner’s ski slope in Quebec, was not admitted to a hospital until nearly four hours after her accident, according to ambulance dispatch records obtained by the New York Times on Friday.

That is nearly three hours later than the timeline officials at the Mont Tremblant ski resort, about 90 minutes north of Montreal, offered on Tuesday, the day after Ms. Richardson’s fatal fall.

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The NYC Medical Examiner’s office has finished its autopsy on Natasha Richardson and concluded she died of  “blunt impact to head.” That was the first official statement at 2:06 PM.

Ellen Borakove, the spokesperson for the NYC medical examiner’s office said the autopsy further concluded Richardson’s death was “an accident” and the exact cause of death was “a epidural hematoma due to blunt impact to the head.”

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As the cameras rolled, the young actress knew she desperately needed to lie down. But before she could do anything she collapsed on set and was rushed to hospital.

Hollywood star Halle Berry then lay dangerously ill in a diabetic coma for a week before waking to a life that would never be the same again.

"Diabetes caught me completely off guard," she explains.

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TAMPA, Fla. -- Alex Rodriguez will have surgery on his torn right hip labrum, opting for a so-called "hybrid" approach that could have him playing for the Yankees about two months after the limited procedure.

Rodriguez will undergo the surgery on Monday morning in Vail, Colo., having the procedure performed by hip specialist Dr. Marc Philippon. Rodriguez is expected to return to Major League game-ready shape in six to nine weeks.

The LA Fertility Institutes plan to let would-be parents choose a variety of features in their embryos and discard the rest. 

MANHATTAN , Kan., Feb. 27 (UPI) -- Celebrities are often labeled as role models of youth but U.S. researchers say they have little influence on young people, unlike family negative role models.

Council member Marion Barry (D-Ward 8) has been upgraded and moved from intensive care to a regular room, his doctor said this afternoon.

"He's doing very well, we transferred him this morning," said Clive O. Callender, who performed a kidney tansplant on the former mayor on Friday.

Supreme Court Justice Ruth Ginsburg was back on the bench Monday just two and a half weeks after cancer surgery. On Feb. 5, Ginsburg had surgery in New York for pancreatic cancer. A statement from the court a few days later said doctors found a cancerous tumor less than one centimeter in size. Doctors said they believe that since the tumor was in its earliest stage of formation that a full recovery is possible.