Italy’s highest court ruled that the father of a woman in a persistent vegetative state could remove his daughter’s feeding tube, ending a case that has divided the country.
The gap in life expectancy between rich and poor has increased to as much as 40 years within some countries, according to a new report by the World Health Organization.
Rumors about Kim Jong-il’s condition run rampant, but analysts say it appears to be business as usual in North Korea.
Kamal Shyaa Abdullah, a high-ranking official in the Ministry of Culture who refused protection, was killed by gunmen on Saturday.
Tijuana has long had an extensive menu of contraband. However, one product trumps all others in terms of shock value: a drug that literally takes a person?s breath away.
In the most spectacular royal funeral in Bali in at least three decades, three royal figures and 68 commoners were mass cremated.
By appearing to cater more to the needs of the dead than to the living, Buddhism may be losing standing in Japan.
A woman?s desire to avoid life in a nursing home forces a country to confront the thorny ethical issue and casts an assisted-suicide advocate as Germany?s Jack Kevorkian.
A grave containing about 800 bodies was reported in Grozny, the capital of Chechnya, human rights officials said.
A grave containing about 800 bodies was reported in Grozny, the capital of Chechnya, human rights officials said.