GENEVA (AP) -- Chinese officials say they did not detect any "unusual or novel diseases" in the country, the World Health Organization said Thursday, following an official request by the U.N. health agency for information about a potentially worrying spike in respiratory illnesses and clusters of pneumonia in children.
The President of the Spanish Government demands from the top Israeli leaders “a viable Palestinian State” and censures the reaction to the Hamas attacks: “This catastrophe must stop; The answer cannot involve the death of innocent people, including hundreds of children.”
In a remote southeastern corner of Zimbabwe, about 140 volunteers slept in shifts through a 24-hour annual wildlife census - a valuable indicator of the status of the southern African nation's wildlife resources during a worrying regional drought.