Globally, people's health is improving and life expectancy rising, but progress is far from universal with chronic diseases bringing long-term illness and causing seven out of 10 deaths, according to research.
Andrew Jones and Nicoleta Hodoregea won the men’s and women’s titles of the fifth Aspire Torch Staircase Run 2016, respectively yesterday.
This winter was supposed to be Nutanix’s time to shine. The high-tech computing and storage company filed for a hotly anticipated initial public offering in December, ready to woo investors early in the New Year.
Israel resumed a punishing air campaign against Gaza on Tuesday after its Islamist foe Hamas rejected a six-hour truce and fired dozens of rockets over the border.
Guinea identified the Ebola virus yesterday as the source of a highly contagious epidemic raging through its southern forests, as the death toll rose to 34.
A gauge of the trend in layoffs of American workers fell last week to its lowest since before the 2007-09 recession, a hopeful sign for the US economy.
