International

  Miami, United States – A friendly international competition to encourage exercise using pedometers and online tools was successful in helping people lose weight and improve their fitness over the course ...

  Freetown, Sierra Leone – Ebola survivors jostled with police in Sierra Leone’s capital as they protested perceived government inaction over their care in a health system badly hit by the ...

  Paris, France – Over one in eight adults are now obese — a ratio that has more than doubled since 1975 and will swell to one in five by 2025, ...

  Santiago, Chile – Authorities Saturday reported the first sexually transmitted case of Zika in mainland Chile, where there is no known presence of the mosquito generally blamed for passing on ...

  Geneva, Switzerland – The World Health Organization said that the Ebola outbreak in West Africa no longer constitutes an international emergency, voicing confidence that remaining isolated cases in the affected ...

  Kfar Pines, Israel – With its moat, wall, barbed wire, armed guards and security cameras, the facility could be mistaken for a military base if it weren’t for the pungent ...

  Washington, United States – Men who have been diagnosed with the Zika virus or have symptoms of the illness should wait at least six months before having unprotected sex, US ...

  Conakry, Guinea – A medical charity said it had reopened its specialist Ebola clinic in southern Guinea to treat an infected woman and her child after the virus killed at ...

  Dakar, Senegal – The World Health Organization (WHO) has dispatched a team to Cape Verde to monitor a Zika virus outbreak following the west African archipelago’s first recorded microcephaly case. ...

  Santiago, Chile – Lawmakers in Chile’s lower house of Congress approved abortion in limited circumstances, the first step towards lifting a decades-old ban on the practice in the socially conservative ...