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Wanting to stay British, Gibraltar and the Falkland Islands have accused Spain and Argentina of 'bullying'.

• 06 апреля 2016, 20:22

The number of adults estimated to be living with diabetes has nearly quadrupled over 35 years: the World Health Organization

• 06 апреля 2016, 20:08

Experimental drug that greatly increases levels of "good" cholesterol has no effect on heart health, a comprehensive clinical trial found.

• 05 апреля 2016, 14:26

Iran's defence minister is certain the UN Security Council will not take any action over its missile tests despite calls from the Western.

• 31 марта 2016, 16:53

De Niro offs a documentary by a former British medical researcher about a link between vaccines and autism from Tribeca Film Festival.

• 28 марта 2016, 14:07

Brazil's former president Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva is warning that the Petrobras corruption probe is paralyzing the Brazilian economy.

• 28 марта 2016, 13:27

US Secretary of State John Kerry and Russia's President Vladimir Putin agreed to intensify the drive for a political settlement in Syria but remained divided over Bashar al-Assad's future.

• 25 марта 2016, 16:17

An estimated seven million drones will fly in US skies by 2020, nearly tripling the number in circulation by the end of the year.

• 25 марта 2016, 15:24

Hollywood's traditional media players are facing an unprecedented challenge to their business model as 'cord-cutters' opt to cancel their expensive cable subscriptions in favor of on-demand streaming services.

• 25 марта 2016, 15:13

Japan will return a huge cache of plutonium -- enough to produce 50 nuclear bombs -- to the United States.

• 18 марта 2016, 17:15

A run-in with customs at Cairo airport has left Grammy Award winning rock musician Bryan Adams fuming, after a border agent scrawled a number on the Canadian's prize guitar in paint marker.

• 11 марта 2016, 17:43

Gun deaths in the United States can be slashed by 90 percent through universal application of laws requiring background checks of buyers.

• 11 марта 2016, 15:30

British leader David Cameron got "distracted" and French President Nicolas Sarkozy wanted to promote his country during the 2011 military intervention in Libya, US President Barack Obama said.

• 11 марта 2016, 14:00

The United States urges governments to prevent a humanitarian catastrophe of epic proportions from the collapse of Iraq's Mosul dam.

• 10 марта 2016, 14:45

Iran fired two more long-range ballistic missiles on Wednesday as it continued military tests in defiance of US sanctions and fresh warnings from Washington.

• 09 марта 2016, 20:08

Causing brain damage in babies and a rare neurological ailment in adults, the Zika virus is also linked to paralysis-causing myelitis.

• 09 марта 2016, 00:53

US regulators offer broadband subsidies to low-income Americans, saying that Internet access is "a prerequisite for full participation" in modern society.

• 09 марта 2016, 00:07

Lady Gaga described her Oscar performance with rape survivors as the most difficult of her life, saying that she remains in chronic pain.

• 05 марта 2016, 15:12

SpaceX launched a communications satellite to an orbit but failed to land the first stage of its Falcon 9 rocket on an ocean platform.

• 05 марта 2016, 15:07

The world's most expensive train station opened Thursday in New York, nearly $2 billion over budget and years behind schedule.

• 04 марта 2016, 16:25