One person has died of suspected anthrax while 82 others have so far received treatment following an outbreak of the disease in Zimbabwe's province of Mashonaland West, The Sunday Mail reported.

A strong earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 6.5 hit Hawaii early Sunday morning, local TV MSNBC reported.

Infectious diseases and food poisoning topped the reports of public health emergencies in China last month, according to the Ministry of Health.

China has launched a project which will train 20,000 community doctors to help patients with high blood pressure, according to sources with the Ministry of Health.

Luxembourg's state rail company admitted on Sunday that human error on the part of its employees was to blame for a train collision in northeast France that killed six people last Wednesday, local media reported.

Tropical storm Soulic, Asia's 19th major storm of the year, is centered far out in the Pacific Ocean but is expected to bring gales to the Bohai Sea, East China Sea, Taiwan straits and oceans south of Japan.

Eight actors from China and Britain, all of whom are of Chinese decent, are in intense rehearsals on a version of King Lear that not only updates Shakespeare's great tragedy but transplants it to Shanghai sometime in the future.

Indonesian Health Ministry confirmed here Sunday that an 11-year-old boy, who died Saturday evening, was positively infected by avian influenza, bringing the total death from the disease to 53 out of 71 cases in the country.

An outbreak of a strange disease in a remote village in far-western district of Dadeldhura in Nepal has claimed the lives of eight people over the past two weeks, causing severe panic among the locals.

Cupboards with pigeon-holed drawers line up the room, giving off exotic smells. Tags on the drawers are all written in Chinese characters, the doctor sitting at the table take pulse rate rather than relying on stethoscope only in diagnoses.