A new Cuban-made vaccine against chronic hepatitis B has entered clinical trials in Cuba plus eight countries and regions in Oceania and Asia with the help of French company Abivax.
Eating in moderation, drinking a glass of good wine every day and avoiding chasing women are the secrets of a long life, say Belgians Pieter and Paulus Langerock, the world's oldest living twin brothers.
Russell Begaye stared into a hole in the side of a Colorado mountain, watching yellow water contaminated with heavy metals gush out and race down a slope toward a creek that feeds rivers critical to survival on the largest Native American reservation in the United States and in other parts of the Southwest.
A 48-hour truce has been reached between the Syrian army and armed militants in two hot spots in northwest Syria and near the Lebanese border, a monitor group and the Lebanese Al-Manar TV reported early on Wednesday.
Myanmar was evacuating parts of a city on Wednesday after mudslides wiped away hundreds of houses and torrential rain threatened further damage in the worst floods to hit the country in decades.
The Taliban have condemned a "horrific" video that appears to show fighters from the Islamic State group blowing up bound and blindfolded Afghan prisoners with explosives.
A Malaysian opposition party on Wednesday filed a lawsuit against Prime Minister Najib Razak and the indebted state fund 1Malaysia Development Berhad, saying they had violated electoral rules and a new election should be held.
Thailand's junta leader Prayut Chan-O-Cha has said he may appoint his brother as the next army chief, one of the most powerful jobs in the coup-prone kingdom.
Investigators studying the downing of Malaysia Airlines Flight MH17 are "really getting closer" to finding out who was behind the attack, said Fred Westerbeke, the Dutch prosecutor leading a criminal investigation into the tragedy.
A bomb blast killed at least 50 people in northeastern Nigeria and hundreds of fighters invaded a town across the border in Cameroon in attacks on Tuesday that witnesses and officials blame on Boko Haram Islamic extremists.
An elderly South Korean man set himself on fire on Wednesday outside the Japanese embassy in Seoul during a protest over Japan's forced recruitment of sex slaves for military brothels during World War II.
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