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The German town of Brandenburg plans to open a new centre to commemorate more than 9,000 mentally ill people murdered there by the Nazis.

The government is offering to pay poor families nearly $3,000 to bring up their girl children, and discourage the widespread practice of aborting the female foetus which has led to a skewed gender balance in parts of the country.

South Korea closed schools on Monday and its factories producing memory chips stepped up safeguards, as a choking pall of sand mixed with toxic dust from China covered most of the country and other parts of Asia.

Organic chickens might have a better life but when it comes to the end, there is no difference in the taste between free range and factory-raised birds, according to a taste test by Australian food experts.

South Korea closed schools and factories producing memory chips stepped up safeguards on Monday, as a choking pall of sand mixed with toxic dust from China covered most of the country.

Influenza viruses coat themselves in fatty material that hardens and protects them in colder temperatures -- a finding that could explain why winter is the flu season, U.S. researchers reported on Sunday.

Defects in working memory -- the brain's temporary storage bin -- may explain why one child cannot read her history book and another gets lost in algebra, new research suggests.

British supermodel Naomi Campbell left a Brazilian hospital on Friday, five days after she was rushed in for surgery, the hospital said.

It made a big splash when scientists announced in 2006 that images from a NASA spacecraft indicated water apparently had flowed on the surface of Mars in the past decade but new research casts doubt on that finding.

Couch potatoes who complain they are tired all the time have an easy solution -- a little light exercise.

India on Friday cut excise duty on goods produced in the drug sector and extended a five-year tax holiday to hospitals set up any where in India, except in certain urban areas, boosting shares of healthcare and drug firms.

Russian President Vladimir Putin praised Dmitry Medvedev, his chosen candidate in Sunday's presidential election, on Thursday for radically improving healthcare, education, agriculture and housing.

British researchers have discovered a genetic mutation that causes a paralysing illness called ALS in some people, a finding they said on Thursday may lead to treatments for the degenerative nerve condition.

China, worried about an ageing population, is studying scrapping its controversial one-child policy but will not do away with family-planning policies altogether, a senior official said on Thursday.

India's patent office will consider this week whether to override patents on cancer drugs made by Pfizer and Roche and allow a generics firm to export copycat versions to Nepal in the first case of its kind here.

Democrats Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton clashed sharply in a high-stakes one-on-one debate on Tuesday, accusing each other of falsely portraying their stances on health care, trade and other issues.

By the end of the year half of the world's population will be living in cities for the first time in history, the United Nations said in a report released on Tuesday.

British supermodel Naomi Campbell was recovering in a Sao Paulo hospital on Tuesday from emergency abdominal surgery to remove a cyst, according to hospital officials and her spokesman.

China and Pakistan have announced bird flu outbreaks among poultry, a day after two women, one in China and one in neighbouring Vietnam, died of the virus.