Health
Birth defects in Latin America spark Zika virus panic
Alarm over thousands of birth defects blamed on the mosquito-borne Zika virus spread Friday, as the United States expanded a travel warning ...WHO confirms second new Ebola case in Sierra Leone
A new case of Ebola has been confirmed in Sierra Leone, officials said Thursday, the second since west Africa celebrated the end ...U.N. seeks $1.3 billion in humanitarian funding for South Sudan
The United Nations is seeking $1.3 billion in humanitarian aid for South Sudan, where two in ten of the population have been ...French drug trial volunteer dies
A man left brain dead after a drug trial in northwest France died on Sunday, said the hospital where he was being ...New Ebola death in Sierra Leone as WHO says epidemic over
Tropical disease experts in Sierra Leone scrambled Friday to investigate a new suspected death from Ebola announced just hours after west Africa ...EU Parliament delays vote on new car pollution limits
The European Parliament on Thursday postponed a vote on new car pollution limits that could have killed a compromise agreed by EU ...WHO declares Ebola outbreak over
The world breathed a sigh of relief Thursday as a two-year Ebola epidemic that killed 11,000 and triggered a global health alert ...At least 15 dead in suicide bombing at Pakistan polio vaccination center
A suicide bomber killed at least 15 people, most of them police, outside a polio eradication center in Pakistan\'s western city of ...Swiss billionaire Margarita Louis-Dreyfus, 53, pregnant with twins
Swiss multi-billionaire businesswoman Margarita Louis-Dreyfus, the 53-year-old chair of French conglomerate Louis Dreyfus Commodities and owner of the Olympique de Marseille football ...Regime bombardment across Syria kills 56 civilians
Heavy government bombardment of rebel-held towns across Syria on Friday killed at least 56 civilians, more than a quarter of them children, ...





