While China's Communist Party leaders gathered for a major conclave this week, April Wen was too busy to notice. The accountant was searching for a job and polishing her English by watching "Desperate Housewives" on pirated DVD.
Pssst. Don't tell Iowa and New Hampshire, but people scattered all around the country could well be voting at the same time or even beat them to the polls this winter.
O.J. Simpson's alleged hotel room heist involved a group of men with little in common, save for an interest in an infamous former football star and, in some cases, a penchant for running afoul of the law.
The toll of people infected with cholera in Iraq has risen to 3,315, the World Health Organization said Wednesday.
Another stereotype — chatty gals and taciturn guys — bites the dust.
The World Health Organization rejected Taiwan's bid for membership on Monday after Chinese officials accused the island of trying to strengthen its claim to sovereignty.
An international report giving greater certainty to global warming will shift the debate in Congress from what's causing climate change to the economics of who will pay to confront it.
Ben Bernanke shoots hoops. Susan Schmidt Bies hits the links and once refereed kids' soccer games. Donald Kohn rides his bike to work on sunny days.
Some ranking members of Saddam Hussein's regime on trial or detained.
Splitting dinner checks can cause a splitting headache, even when the diners are a math-oriented data miner, a database security specialist and an expert in networked games.
Two months into her minimum wage job at Target Corp., Tara Dennis realized she and her three children would be better off if she was unemployed and on food stamps. So she quit.
Most of the 24 years since the last time the Who released a new album passed with the group's creative force, guitarist and songwriter Pete Townshend, believing there would never be another one. That doesn't mean no one tried — with almost comically dysfunctional results.
Vaccines have treated infectious prions in mice, raising hopes of a cure for the deadly human version of “mad cow disease”.
As vaccine manufacturers struggle to make a standard flu vaccine for the deadly H5N1 bird flu, US scientists have found that a totally different approach might work better.
In many ways, New Orleans is a huge crime scene, with bodies and victims and fingerprints — many, many sets of fingerprints. But who did it? Who is responsible for this mess, for a barely functioning city with large swaths still uninhabited — or uninhabitable — a year after Hurricane Katrina?
When Hu Jintao made his first visit to Washington, the then-vice president of China never deviated from the official policy line, leaving Bush administration officials perplexed as to what kind of leader he would become.
Italian investigators say it's not clear who might emerge as the Sicilian Mafia's new top boss, but they will be closing watching aides to the just captured Bernardo "The Tractor" Provenzano. Among them:
After the al-Qaida leader in Saudi Arabia was killed by security forces, his supporters issued a message hailing him as a martyr. A week earlier, Christian groups used the same word for an American peace campaigner whose body was found in Baghdad.
Don't know much about George Mason's basketball team? How about the school itself? Or the man for whom it was named?
The award-winning whippet who escaped from her travel cage at Kennedy Airport bolted across tarmac at 25 mph as workers chased her on foot and in three cars, her breeder said Friday.
Millionaires are popping up everywhere around the globe at a rate faster than ever before. The United States is still in the lead, but do you know that another country is steadily climbing the ranks to becoming the country with the most millionaire households?
The last time a drive was launched to eradicate malaria, the year was 1955 and the call came from the governments of the world through the United Nations. Now, two people from Seattle are challenging the world to take up the cause again.
Less than a week ago, the World Health Organization released one of the most comprehensive studies to date on reproductive health.
Bill and Melinda Gates today challenged the world's top malaria experts to take on one of the greatest challenges in the history of medicine: The eradication of a disease that has plagued humanity for millennia and still claims more than a million lives a year.
In 1975, British delegate Sir George Godber informed the World Health Organization how to get smokers to quit: foster an atmosphere where it was perceived that active smokers would injure those around them, especially their family and infants or young children who would be expos …
If the malaria community had an Oscar week, this would be it.
The United States is planing to implement a massive chemical-spraying program in Afghanistan, emulating the failed Plan Columbia program that has been in operation for the last decade in Latin American.
The excess deaths in the Bush War on Terror now total 5.7 MILLION, similar to the death toll in the Nazi-imposed Jewish Holocaust (5-6 MILLION). TRIALS are needed for the UK-US Holocaust Committers and Holocaust Deniers.
This death comes amid growing concern in war-torn Iraq about the deteriorating infrastructure, and cholera is prevalent in areas where the water quality is poor.
...."We were all simply in shock," said Nadia's mother, Tatyana Barabanova, 43. "What did the father say? He couldn't say a thing -- he just stood there blinking."
Between 23 August and 10 September 2007, the cumulative number of cases of acute watery diarrhoea reported from Sulaymaniyah province stands at 6,142 including 9 deaths (case fatality rate, CFR: 0,14%).
What is the impact of cervical cancer in your country? Do you want to know the burden of HPV infections on cervical cancer in your country? What are the statistics on the contributing factors for cervical cancer in your country? What kind of cervical screening practices exist in …
An outbreak of the deadly Ebola virus in the Democratic Republic of Congo has been confirmed by the World Health Organization in Kasai province. At least 166 people have died and WHO says it is aware of 372 other cases.
Regardless of capability or wealth, no country is immune to the increasing risk of disease outbreaks, epidemics, industrial accidents and other health emergencies, according to a new World Health Organisation (WHO) report.
A new killer disease on par with HIV-Aids or ebola is likely to emerge in the next few years and threaten the lives of millions of people worldwide, the World Health Organisation (WHO) said today.
Global land surface temperatures for January and April will likely be ranked as the warmest since records began in 1880, the United Nations World Meteorological Organization (WMO) reported today, adding that it is working with its partners to set up a multi-hazard early warning s …
The World Health Organization (WHO) is pleased to join the World Alliance for Breastfeeding Action in celebrating World Breastfeeding Week on 1-7 August 2007.
A Genius is someone who is conspicuously AWARE of the light within them. One who lives within the balance and rhythms of their Creator. Therefore, if you add it up, an Oprah Winfrey and sayвЂ"вЂ"a Dog The Bounty Hunter or a Galileo were co-conspirators with God.
Britain is to get a "unified border force" to boost the fight against terrorism, the prime minister has said. A "highly visible" uniformed force would bring together immigration and Customs officers, Gordon Brown said.
SYDNEY, Australia (AP) -- A U.S. health expert urged governments worldwide Tuesday to endorse circumcision to slow the spread of HIV, saying men without the procedure have a greater risk of contracting the virus from infected female partners.
Two major United Nations organizations this week took the unusual step of issuing a warning about proven weaknesses in food safety systems around the world.
The latest vaccine controversy is the concern that vaccines containing thimerosal, particularly the measles, mumps, and rubella (MMR) vaccine cause autism.
One billion people will die of tobacco-related diseases this century unless governments in rich and poor countries alike get serious about preventing smoking, top World Health Organization (WHO) experts said on Monday.
The Government Accountability Office (GAO) has issued two reports that address avian and pandemic influenza planning; one examining how well the US Department of Agriculture (USDA) is prepared to respond to avian flu outbreaks and the other assessing efforts by US and internation …
Dr Tamsir Mbowe, Secretary of State for Health and Social Welfare on Tuesday tabled before members of the National Assembly, the World Health Organisation Convention on Tobacco Control for ratification.