Scientists race to stop world's fastest spreading tropical disease
Mosquitoes are much more than a bloodsucking annoyance. For close to half of the world, they represent disease and death. In some tropical regions, they transmit a powerful virus called dengue that kills hundreds of thousands of people each year. Dengue is the world's fastest-spreading ...
Japan's real gross domestic product grew 0.9 percent in the October-December period from the previous quarter for annualized growth of 3.7 percent growth — more than double the market forecast of 1.5 percent annualized growth. The nation's economy is expected to achieve the government ...
Mr. Imad Mugniyeh, one of the world's most wanted men, was killed this week in Damascus. Mr. Mugniyeh, a commander of Hezbollah, the militant Islamist group, has been sought for his role in a series of terror attacks around the world that killed hundreds ...
Kyoto prefectural police have arrested an engineering graduate school student on suspicion of creating and spreading a computer virus via the peer-to-peer, file-sharing software program Winny. He is believed to be the first person in Japan to be arrested in connection with creating a ...
