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Japanese Cabinet Office released the result of a survey, saying that about 23.4 percent Japanese adults have thought of committing suicide.
The findings, published in the Journal of Clinical Oncology, support earlier research showing that women are less likely to die from melanoma, the deadliest of the skin cancers.
Newborns whose mothers are under stress during the first trimester of pregnancy may be at risk for low iron status.
A Mexican woman is pregnant with nine babies - six girls and three boys - the country's main broadcaster Televisa reported on Thursday night.
It turns out kidneys and other organs donated for transplants can be recycled.
The sons of two members of the first US team to scale Mount Qomolangma are hoping to climb the world's highest mountain, replicating their fathers' feat nearly half a century after the historic first US ascent.
Indonesia intends to double tourist arrivals from China by 2014 as bilateral relations have developed rapidly in recent years, Indonesia's Tourism Minister Mari Elka Pangestu has said.
The real payoff, which is decades away, will come from mining asteroids for platinum group metals and rare minerals.
Once a regular village entertainment in South Korea, bullfighting nearly died out as the nation rapidly industrialised, but the annual Cheongdo Bullfighting Festival help keep the cherished tradition alive.
The space shuttle Discovery took off on its final voyage on Tuesday, on a piggyback jet ride to the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum's Virginia annex.
Commemorative Titanic stamps from St. Vincent and the Grenadines, signed by the last Titanic survivor Millvina Dean before her death in 2009, are seen on board the Titanic Memorial Cruise
The event held at Buccoo Integrated Facility is largely held for goat racing but also includes crab races as part of the entertainment.
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