Hong Kong - The people of Hong Kong would happily spend long evenings in the office but more than half of them cannot spare the time to exercise, a survey released Thursday found. Forty-eight per cent of people in the high-rise city of 7 million met ...

Manila - The Philippines is one of seven countries in Asia facing a serious child trafficking problem, according to a study released Wednesday by the United Nations Children Fund. The report, Child Trafficking in East and South-East Asia: Reversing t...

Barcelona - A pedestrian was killed when a suicidal woman jumped from her eighth-floor balcony and landed on top of him in north-eastern Spain, the newspaper El Punt reported Wednesday. The woman, who had jumped down from a height of 25 metres, was k...

New York - Warning that one in 10 New Yorkers may have been infected with the H1N1 virus, or swine flu, in the spring, officials unveiled plans Tuesday to vaccinate millions of people as schools are to open next week. As I said when we saw the first...

Barcelona - Overweight children do not only risk becoming sick adults, but may develop health problems in childhood, according to a study made public on Tuesday. Overweight children risked developing pathological changes which contributed to the appe...