British-American researcher John O'Keefe won the Nobel Medicine Prize with May-Britt and Edvard Moser, for discovering an "inner GPS" that helps the brain navigate.
According to the head of the National Scientific and Practical Center on Medical and Social Problems of Drug Abuse, methadone therapy also known as opioid substitution therapy (OST) may become nationwide in Kazakhstan in 2016.
Bolivia's socialist President Evo Morales is expected to score a reelection sweep next so solid that he likely will win on the first ballot and avoid a run-off.
US health officials said that a doctor who returned to a hospital after being treated for the Ebola virus did not have a new case of the infectious disease.
Troubled British supermarket giant Tesco announced that the former head of Ikea and the current head of catering firm Compass have joined the group's board.
Two million Muslim pilgrims begin leaving the holy city of Mecca, concluding the annual hajj during which Saudi leaders lashed out at Islamic extremism.