US, British and French leaders have said in a joint letter there can be no peace in Libya while Muammar Gaddafi stays in power
The Japanese government has ordered the operator of the nuclear plant damaged by last month's quake and tsunami to pay compensation to affected families
The World Health Organization estimates some 2.6 million stillbirths occurred worldwide in 2009, the overwhelming majority in developing countries. This first comprehensive set of estimates appears as part of a series of articles on stillbirths published in the British medical journal, The Lancet.
Scientists say a new method for recreating the brain cells of patients with schizophrenia could shed new light on the cause of the disabling mental disorder, which is marked by paranoid delusions and auditory hallucinations.
If you're a steak-and-potatoes kind of guy, you're in luck. Red meat can be good for you, says Leslie Bonci, MPH, RD, nutritional consultant to the Pittsburgh Steelers. Lean cuts of beef and pork are packed with protein and have only a little more fat than chicken breast. Red meat is also one of the best sources of leucine, an amino acid that helps build muscle.
Shin Futsu fishermen fear that some of the radioactive elements will eventually wash up at the port.
Eighty percent of women give birth, and now there may be a chance that breast cancer can be detected earlier by examining cells in breast milk, according to a presentation at the American Association for Cancer Research 102nd Annual Meeting in Orlando, Florida this week.
A powerful aftershock has struck north-east Japan, a month after a violent quake led to a devastating tsunami.
At least three militants have been killed in an attack on a police training centre outside the southern Afghan city of Kandahar, witnesses say
Nearly 20 million people in the Asia-Pacific region were kept in poverty last year by rising food prices, according to a U.N. study. The United Nations says governments in the region need to better control inflation or else millions more people could be impoverished.