The 10th China Mount Huangshan international tourism and local culture festival opened here on Saturday amid folk dances and a parade of festooned vehicles.

The total number of suspected dengue patients admitted in different hospitals in Pakistan climbed to 2,637 by Friday evening, according to the country's health ministry.

Zambia is expected to have more cases of colorectal cancer because of a change in diet, Yakub Mulla, dean professor of University of Zambia School of Medicine was quoted as saying on Wednesday.

Genetic factors might influence human infection of bird flu, which may explain why some people get the disease and others don't, and why it remains rare, the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Thursday.

The total number of patients declared positive for dengue virus across the country stood at 813 by Thursday evening as against 741 positive cases by Wednesday evening, said a press release issued by Pakistan health ministry here Thursday.

Dutch women can let their daughters be preventively vaccinated against cervical cancer as from Thursday, Dutch media reported on Thursday.

Authorities on Thursday filed murder and arson charges against a man suspected of setting a Southern California wildfire last week that killed five firefighters.

The annual 30th Cairo International Film Festival will be held from Nov. 28 to Dec. 8, with some 19 films from 16 countries to be shown.

Zambia and neighboring Zimbabwe are holding consultation meetings on the revision of the emergency preparedness plan for the Kariba Dam to be ready for any disaster, local newspaper Zambia Daily Mail reported on Friday.

China's Foreign Ministry on Thursday rejected a report by the U.S.-based National Academy of Sciences that a new strain of H5N1 bird flu has been found in the south of the country.