China strives for free compulsory education for all (2)

An Indonesian official has warned that a healthy chicken could be a carrier of the bird flu virus although it shows no symptoms of the illness, following a finding in West Java province, a report said Thursday.

British police are trialing a new DNA profiling technique that may help to decipher previously inscrutable samples and resolve many thousands of unsolved crimes.

Human error led to the high-speed train crash last month in north-western Germany, local German state prosecutor said Wednesday.

Malaysian Prime Minister Abdullah Ahmad Badawi opened Malaysia's National Space Center at Banting, some 150 km southwest of Kuala Lumpur, in a bid to harness space technology for the country's development.

Jacob Lukaka, who is going to graduate from the University of Nairobi later this year, has already secured a job -- to work for a Chinese travel agency in Kenya as a guide.

Renowned American pop star Madonna Wednesday morning arrived in Malawi for a two-day humanitarian visit that will culminate into her adopting of an orphan and launch of several projects.

A charity organization called "Operation Smile" has helped 8,205 Chinese children with cleft palates "regain their smile" through free plastic surgery, according to the organization.

Health officials linked five more E. coli cases to spinach produced on California farms, a newspaper report said on Wednesday.

More than 60 people are ill after diarrhea took epidemic proportions in Kavre district in central Nepal, the National News Agency RSS reported Wednesday.