AFP - One of the joint winners of this year's Nobel Prize for medicine said the current financial crisis could have a negative impact on the world's health, particularly in poorer countries.

AFP - One of the joint winners of this year's Nobel Prize for medicine said the current financial crisis could have a negative impact on the world's health, particularly in poorer countries.

AP - When Indonesia's health minister stopped sending bird flu viruses to a research laboratory in the U.S. for fear Washington could use them to make biological weapons, Defense Secretary Robert Gates laughed and called it "the nuttiest thing" he'd ever heard.

AFP - Baghdad's mentally ill people, their numbers swollen by the trauma of living under Saddam Hussein, remain sadly neglected despite many promises of help by US representatives.

Reuters - A magazine cover photo of Angelina Jolie breast-feeding one of her newborn twins may have turned the superstar actress into a role model for new mothers.