As Uganda looks to eliminate malaria, the country is engaged in a debate(辩论会) over the use of chemicals such as DDT in some of the world's most malarial regions. In the district of Apac in northern Uganda, the risk of malaria is higher than any...
One of the biggest challenges in fighting tuberculosis comes from new drug-resistant(抗药性的) strains of the disease. And one of the main reason those strains have developed is that TB patients often don't take their standard, 14-pill, course of...
ADRID, April 23 (Xinhua) -- Real Madrid coach Jose Mourinho began looking to the future after watching his side win 6-3 away to Valencia on Saturday. Madrid's win was their second triumph in the Mestalla stadium（体育场） in four days and follow...
ROME, April 23 (Xinhua) -- AC Milan moved one step closer to the Serie A title with a 1-0 win at Brescia on Saturday. Robinho struck in the 82nd minute - just after the home side had hit the woodwork（木制品,木匠活） and started to put Milan...
NANJING, April 23 (Xinhua) -- At a time when almost every commodity in China is getting more expensive, the dwindling cost of medicine is a rarity. Zhang Jinkui, a hypertension patient, buys medicines from the community health center of his neighborh...
PARIS, April 22 (Xinhua) -- Bollywood will share the spotlight at the 64th Cannes Film Festival from May 11 to 22, with a special film showcasing India's unique film culture, organizers announced Friday. Bollywood - The Greatest Love Story Ever Told,...
SAN FRANCISCO, April 22 (Xinhua) -- Apple and Google collect smartphone(智能手机) users' location information as part of their race to build massive databases, The Wall Street Journal reported on Friday after analyzing data and documents. Accordi...
SAN FRANCISCO, April 22 (Xinhua) - Amazon's web-services disruption issues have not been completely resolved Friday morning, as some websites still in slow recovery. Amazon said in an update early Friday that meaningful progress has been made and is...
MOSCOW, April 22 (Xinhua) -- The Russian Space Forces has re-established contact with a military satellite, Geo-IK-2, which went missing in February, local media reported Friday. According to a spokesman from the Defense Ministry(国防部) , Interfa...
Millions of people around the world celebrated Earth Day Friday by pledging to commit personal acts of green to improve the environment(环境). This is the 41st anniversary of the first Earth Day, observed in the United States in the aftermath of a...
Japan is the United States' fourth-largest trading（贸易） partner, and trade had increased the first two months of this year -- before the earthquake and tsunami. Now the two busiest container ports in the United States are seeing the effects of...
At least one person has been killed and 40 more are missing after a landslide(塌方) struck homes and destroyed mining tunnels in the southern Philippines. Mud and rocks buried miners' houses in the remote village in Compostela Valley province on th...
The U.S. government says it is going to monitor the sharply rising gasoline prices in the country to see if anyone is profiting illegally(非法地) . The country's top legal official, Attorney General Eric Holder, said Thursday that officials from s...
SAN FRANCISCO, April 20 (Xinhua) -- Apple Inc. on Wednesday reported record second fiscal quarter results that blow out analysts'（分析师） expectations, citing strong demands for its products. For its fiscal 2011 second quarter ended on March 2...
Japanese officials have decided to legally enforce an exclusion zone within 20 kilometers of the crippled Fukushima nuclear plant starting at midnight Thursday. Japan's Kyodo news agency reports that Prime Minister Naoto Kan will announce the new res...
