10 Feb 2010 05:22:22 GMT Suspect quarantined in Lampung hospital
Abdul Moeloek General Hospital in Bandarlampung, Lampung, has again quarantined a patient suspected of being infected the bird flu after showing symptoms of high fever, coughing and difficulties of breathing.
10 Feb 2010 05:22:18 GMT The feminization of the HIV epidemic
Between 70 and 80 percent of women injecting drug users (IDUs) are involved in some kind of sex work, according to Ratna Mardiati, a former director of the Drug Dependence Hospital (RSKO) in East Jakarta with 14 years' experience dealing ...
10 Feb 2010 05:05:06 GMT Second big snowstorm slams U.S. East Coast * Federal government in Washington to close for third day
* United Nations headquarters in New York closes
* New York, Washington, Philadelphia brace for onslaught (Recasts, edits)
By Jeremy ...
10 Feb 2010 05:00:31 GMT Efforts to curb Afghan opium crop fail this year -UN * Cultivation of opium stable after falling from 2007-09
* Afghanistan produces more than entire global demand
* Most opium grown in violent parts of country
By Peter Graff
KABUL, Feb 10 ( ...
10 Feb 2010 04:12:38 GMT Gaza's defiant tunnellers head deeper underground
World | They are threatened with drowning by the Egyptians and punitively taxed by Hamas. Robert Fisk meets the Palestinian smugglers bringing oranges, car batteries and bottle tops to a territory under siege
10 Feb 2010 04:03:11 GMT China sets up national food safety commission BEIJING, Feb 10 (Reuters) - China has set up a national food safety commission, headed by a powerful vice premier, who at the watchdog's first meeting set his sights on the persistent problem of ...
10 Feb 2010 03:32:36 GMT US assault paves way for major attack on Taliban stronghold
US SOLDIERS have launched a preliminary operation in support of a planned US-Afghan attack on the largest Taliban-controlled town in southern Afghanistan.
10 Feb 2010 03:32:36 GMT Avalanche death toll could top 60
Massive avalanches north of Kabul may have killed more than 60 people, Afghan officials said, as rescuers evacuated about 400 injured victims.
10 Feb 2010 03:32:33 GMT No sign of panic as Cameron aims to break with the past
JACKET off, slumped on the green office sofa, DC, as some of his aides call him, looks a picture of airbrushed relaxation.
Yet the polls are narrowing, there is talk of a wobble – panic, even – and the personal attacks on Gordon Brown seem ...
10 Feb 2010 03:32:32 GMT Tributes to Scottish soldiers killed in Helmand
THE mother of one of two Scots soldiers killed in an explosion in Afghanistan, who were named by the Ministry of Defence last night, said his death had left a “hole in our lives and a hole in our heartâ€.
