More than 5,600 people were dying of digestive tract cancers in Portugal each year, Evaristo Sanches, president of the Digestive Tract Cancer Investigative Group (CICD), said on Sunday.

The Philippines Institute of Volcanology and Seismology (Phivolcs) said on Monday it has recorded 700 aftershocks after a 5.2 magnitude earthquake shook central Philippines Friday, according to local television network ABS-CBN News.

Israeli Health Ministry suspended all flu vaccinations after four people died shortly after they were inoculated, local newspaper The Jerusalem Post reported on Sunday.

A total of 92 people have died of gastroenteritis in Nigeria's northwestern state of Sokoto since October, the official News Agency of Nigeria reported on Sunday.

The first cemetery of Pharaonic dentists has been unearthed by an Egyptian antiquities mission at the Saqqara pyramid complex south of the capital Cairo, the Egyptian official news agency MENA reported on Sunday.

"The Prestige," a magical thriller about the rivalry between two London magicians for the highest fame of the trade, brought in estimated 14.8 million dollars this weekend to win the top spot at the North American box office.

The Egyptian Culture Ministry will hold cultural weeks abroad for Egyptian Nobel prize winner for literature Naguib Mahfouz, who died on Aug. 30, the official MENA news agency reported Sunday.

A magnitude 3.7 earthquake jolted the central Philippines early Sunday morning, the fifth major aftershock felt in Metro Manila and its surrounding areas since a magnitude 5.2 earthquake struck the region Friday night, the Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology (Phivolcs) said.

More than 800 prisoners in Beijing sat China's biannual university degree-level examinations for self-taught students on Saturday.

A new language test for Chinese learners, for whom Mandarin is not their native language, will begin in November.