China is now spending 20 percent of its health care budget on mental disorders, a spokesman for the Ministry of Health said Tuesday.

The discovery of E. Coli in irrigation water in Salinas Valley, California, offered no new insight into the contaminated spinach, a newspaper report said on Tuesday.

The Bangkok Metropolitan Administration (BMA) plans to impose a complete ban on smoking inside its offices throughout the Thai capital by the beginning of 2008, according to a senior official.

The Japanese International Cooperation Agency (JICA) warned of possible great lava slide along several rivers on Mt. Merapi's slope in Indonesia in the upcoming rainy season.

An anthrax epidemic has been declared in Gowa, Indonesia's South Sulawesi province, with cows in three villages infected with the deadly disease and fears that infected meat has been sold to the public, local press reported Tuesday.

Around 3.5 tons of cocaine were seized onboard a fishing boat on high seas in a joint operation by the United States and Costa Rica, said the Costa Rican Public Security Ministry in a statement on Monday.

Two people from Toronto, Canada's largest city, has been hospitalized with paralysis after drinking toxic carrot juice that was recalled across North America last week.

Mob drama "The Departed" topped the box office in the United States over the weekend, bringing in 26.9 million U.S. dollars, showed final figures released on Monday.

China will make an effort to standardize 500 traditional Chinese medicine remedies and procedures over the next five years.

Twenty-seven of the 50 U.S. states have laws making English their official language, and more are considering the idea, a news report said on Monday.