The cases of influenza A(H1N1) infection, also known as swine flu, have been registered in 17 countries, the Russian consumer rights regulator Rospotrebnadzor said on Sunday, referring to the World Health Organization.
The Mexican government has said the swine flu outbreak has peaked in the country and is now in decline, with a confirmed human death toll of 22.
At least 25 people died and several others were injured early on Monday when a bus fell into the Chenab river in India`s northern state of Jammu and Kashmir, local media reported.
Apple Inc is hiring new employees from the semiconductor industry and is building the capability to design its own chips, the Wall Street Journal reported on Wednesday.
Mexico`s president told citizens to stay home from Friday for a five-day partial shutdown of the economy, after the World Health Organisation raised its alert level and said a swine flu pandemic was imminent.
In Mexico City, the government ran out of surgical masks after handing them out to one of every five residents.
When CEOs and professional investors in developed economies go to bed these days, some may pray for protection from markets in turmoil, share prices in the cellar and angry financial gods bringing fire and brimstone with every check of their Bloomberg terminal or the front pages of The Wall Street Journal.
The world hasn`t seen a pandemic in 41 years, when the "Hong Kong" flu crossed the globe and killed about one million people worldwide. If swine flu reaches pandemic levels, what would happen next?
There have only been seven deaths in Mexico that can be said without doubt to have been caused by swine flu, the Central American country`s health minister has said.
Mankind has finally become aware that the financial crisis is not the most dangerous thing in the world. The world has come across a new danger - the swine flu virus. Many explain yesterday’s reduction of stock markets with the threat of the epidemic of the new disease. The struggle against the distribution of the new virus has made a number of countries ban the imports of pork. Russia introduced a ban too.
A Chinese woman has died from what may be Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) while traveling on a train from the Far East Russian city of Blagoveshchensk to Moscow, a medical source said on Wednesday.
The world commemorated the victims of the Holocaust on April 19. It may seem at first sight that it was only German Nazis that exterminated whole nations. However, Nazis had many allies from Western Ukraine and the Baltic States. That is why, the dispute about the life of Ivan Demyanyuk, a Ukrainian national, accused of slaughtering thousands of Jews, surprises only those people who lack knowledge on history.
Barack Obama’s recent initiative to expose the information about CIA’s secret torture chambers has come into effect already. As it turned out, the information is directly connected with a person from the previous US administration. It goes about Condoleezza Rice. As National Security Advisor in 2002, Rice gave her personal approval to water tortures.
A skinny woman sparked a controversy in Australia as she became a finalist of Miss Australia beauty pageant. She seemed too exhausted and too thin to doctors and dietitians: specialists said that the woman’s thinness was dangerous to her own health and could set a wrong example to young Australian females.
A new record in the exploration of the Arctic was set on Sunday (April 26) when wheeled cars reached the geographical North Pole. No one has ever been able to do it before.
Would the world economy have got into such a mess if more women had been in charge - is a difficult question to answer.
Diplomats from the world`s biggest greenhouse gas polluters including the United States, China and India are set to take part in a forum on Monday at the U.S. State Department aimed at getting a U.N. agreement to curb global warming.
U.S. automaker Chrysler LLC showed signs of progress with its unionized workers in its battle to stay alive on Sunday with just days left to complete deals to slash labor and debt costs or face bankruptcy.
Countries around the world began measures to prevent a swine flu pandemic, as the human death toll from the virus rose to 103 in Mexico, with hundreds of other suspected cases.
Defending champions Russia surged to a 4-0 lead against France inside 10 minutes before easing off to record a 7-2 win at the International Ice Hockey Federation World Championship in Switzerland.
China completes the tests of its latest fighter. Chinese engineers say that J-11BS represents the aviation of the fourth generation. Foreign experts say that the Chinese have actually stolen the idea of the fighter jet from Russia.
Russian Minister for Foreign Affairs, Sergei Lavrov, is visiting the Korean Peninsula April 23 to convince the two Koreas to bury the hatchet and refuse from the bellicose rhetoric. First and foremost, it goes about North Korea that has been frightening the world with its nuclear program for years now. Russia is especially concerned about the state of affairs on the peninsula because the situation is unfolding near the Russian borders.
Shares in General Motors Corp slumped more than 17 percent in Frankfurt on Tuesday amid growing concern the automaker might file for bankruptcy.
The Greek prime minister`s wife, Anastasia Pazaiti-Karamanli, gave emergency medical aid to an unconscious journalist during an official visit with her husband to Cyprus, Cypriot television reported.
Russia and Hong Kong will sign an agreement on Thursday in Beijing cancelling visa requirements for visitors on short trips, a spokesman for the Russian consulate in South China`s territory said.