Health
Hepatitis outstrips AIDS, TB as killer: report
Virus-caused hepatitis has become a leading cause of death and disability in the world, killing more people in a year than AIDS, ...69 million children to face early death by 2030
The number of children who do not attend school is rising, child marriage has not dropped in decades and millions of young ...German nurse likely killed at least 33: investigators
A German nurse jailed for life last year for murdering two patients is now a suspect in at least 33 more deaths, ...No food, no teachers, violence in failing Venezuela schools
Maria Arias slipped her notebooks into her backpack, scrounged for a banana to share with her brother and sister, and set off ...Millions of Latin Americans could fall back into poverty: UN
A third of Latin Americans who have risen out of poverty over the past 15 years could fall back into it due ...El Salvador confirms first Zika-linked birth defect
El Salvador confirmed its first case of microcephaly in a baby that was linked to a Zika infection in the mother. Microcephaly ...Ukraine fire kills 16 in care home
Sixteen people have been killed and one is missing after a fire broke out in a residential building housing elderly people in ...WHO rejects call for Olympics to be moved due to Zika
The World Health Organization (WHO) on Saturday rejected a call for the Rio Olympic Games to be moved or postponed due to ...New study confirms link between air pollution and increased cancer risk
According to a study by the University of Birmingham and the University of Hong Kong, long-term exposure to environmental pollutants, and more ...More than 30,000 displaced in Congo left without aid: agency
More than 30,000 people displaced by fighting in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo have been cut off from aid because of ...