The opium cultivation in the Golden Triangle region, where Myanmar, Laos and Thailand meet, fell 29 percent in 2006, bringing the total decline in the region since 1998 to 85 percent, said the United Nations Office on Drug and Crime (UNODC) Friday.

The Mexican government on Thursday announced the launch of a public campaign to fight physical and sexual abuse of children under 14 years old, local reports said.

A baby girl who was born aboard a Kuwait-based Jazeera Airways flight will be freed of charge on any airline of the carrier until 2024, London-based Middle East Online reported Thursday on its website edition.

Rising at a rate of one person every 11 seconds, the U.S. population will officially surpass 300 million in the next week or so, The Washington Post reported on Thursday.

More than 70 percent of Malaysian men in urban areas are obese or overweight, according to a survey revealed Thursday.

A vehicle accident killed seven people, injured nine others, at least five seriously, in the northeastern Badakhshan province of Afghanistan, a local newspaper reported Thursday.

Dr Jacques Diouf, Director-General of the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), on Thursday inaugurated a new Crisis Management Centre (CMC) to fight avian influenza outbreaks and other major animal health or food health-related emergencies.

China has about 100 million people suffering from arthritis currently, according to recent clinical research results.

Over 100 plastic factories and about 1,000 rooms were burnt down in a devastating fire in central Dhaka district Thursday, local news agency UNB reported Thursday.

"World Trade Center" director Oliver Stone, along with several others, was honored on Thursday for his outstanding work in 2006 film industry as winner of the Hollywood Awards.