Australian researchers have found that cane toad venom kills off prostate cancer cells while sparing healthy cells.
The renowned Mogao Grottoes, a UNESCO World Heritage Site in northwest China's Gansu Province, have been protected from sand erosion and encroaching desert following 70 years of continuous effort, the site's administration said on Monday.
The first British Ebola patient, a 29-year-old male nurse named as William Pooley, has been treated with the experimental drug ZMapp in a London hospital.
A British healthcare worker residing in Sierra Leone, who has been diagnosed with the Ebola virus disease, has been flown back to London, British authority said Sunday.
U.S. air power helped Kurdish fighters retake a major Iraqi dam from terrorists over the weekend, but the Islamic radicals are still a formidable force in the embattled nation, and the United States may well stay in the fight for the foreseeable future, experts say.
Media reports that a Burkinabe from Liberia had died of the dreaded Ebola virus at the Bawku Government Hospital in the Upper East Region sparked fears among Ghanaians at the weekend.
The black boxes from the crashed flight MH17 have been handed over to Dutch investigators in Ukraine, and will later be sent to the British Air Accidents Investigation Branch (AAIB) for forensic analysis.
Bridging inequality, tackling regional disputes and pushing the Association for Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) forward on its integration deadline had been the focus at the 24th Summit that concluded here on Sunday.
Rainstorms lashed central China's Hunan Province and southwest China's Guizhou Province on Monday and Tuesday, affecting over 1 million people and flooding a historical town.
To people have been killed and two others missing in rivers in the northern Indian state of Uttarakhand which has seen incessant showers for the fifth consecutive day on Sunday, police said Monday.
The bodies of 48 victims of Taiwan's crashed TransAsia flight GE 222 have all been identified, according to the the island's aviation safety council on Sunday.
Pakistani security forces have cleared 70 percent area of the armed militants in their second stronghold in North Waziristan tribal region, the army said Sunday.
Suthep Thaugsuban, who had led months-long protests against the former Yingluck government of Thailand, was ordained as a Buddhist monk Tuesday morning.
Myanmar President U Thein Sein Monday called on the people to cooperate with the government in exposing instigators of the recent sectarian riot that took place in the second largest city of Mandalay.
A total of 201 more people from seven townships in Myanmar' second largest city of Mandalay have been charged with violation of curfew order over the past two days and their cases are under investigation, state media reported Monday.
Pakistani military said Thursday that 327 "hardcore terrorists" have been killed and their 45 hideouts destroyed in North Waziristan tribal region since a major offensive has been launched this month.
A pet kangaroo has helped its Australian owner detect skin cancer by continually licking at sores, local media reported on Tuesday.
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