Japanese health authorities have attempted to play down global media reports of a spike in cases of the rare but frequently deadly streptococcal toxic-shock syndrome.

World Health Organization staff who gained access to the devastated facility described horrifying scenes of bodies only partially buried, with their limbs sticking out, and the stench of decomposing corpses.

Medical Council says Joseph Kam has not shown remorse over HK$4.25 million fraud case in which World Health Organization, two overseas institutions were deceived.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu admitted on Tuesday that its armed forces “unintentionally” killed seven aid workers in an air strike in Gaza.

Infected person is recovering from virus after being exposed to dairy cattle. Disease has sickened herds in Texas, Kansas and other states in recent days.

The Israeli military said it struck a command centre of the Islamic Jihad militant group and claimed the hospital’s functioning was not affected.

In an interview with The New York Times, Amit Soussana said she was forced at gunpoint to perform a sex act on her man guard. Hamas has repeatedly rejected accusations of sexual violence.

Shelling and clashes have been reported in south Gaza’s main city of Khan Younis and elsewhere, with 12 members of the same family among those killed overnight.

It was thought around half the people in China were infected but new study cites a much lower figure.

Tobacco and Alcohol Control Office staff catch 14-year-old distributing ‘huge stack’ of smoking advertising leaflets from his backpack.

Deduction on assisted reproductive services expected to cover services obtained from both public and private clinics, while ones undergone outside city not eligible.

Obesity is so prevalent it has become more common than being underweight in most nations.

Three city measles cases logged in January and February, the same number recorded in each of the previous two years.

Israeli forces in war-torn Gaza opened fire on Palestinians scrambling for food aid in a chaotic melee on Thursday that the health ministry in the Hamas-run territory said killed more than 100 people.

Israeli prime minister claimed total victory in Gaza would come within weeks once the offensive begins.

Doctors complain of a drug shortage amid a spike in respiratory diseases caused by multiple pathogens.

About 410,000 people, or 5.6 per cent of Hong Kong’s population, estimated to have been infected with virus.

Israel warned that it will push on with its offensive during the Muslim holy month, including in the far-southern Rafah area.

More than 13.5 billion doses of Covid vaccines have been administered globally over the past three years. A small proportion were injured by the shots, stoking debate about their benefits versus harms.

PM Netanyahu insisted he would seek ‘complete victory’, despite mounting calls to hold off on sending troops into the Gaza city packed with refugees.

Concentrations of some pollutants climbed last year, although air quality was second best to 2002 since city returned to Chinese rule in 1997.

‘It’s related to the weather, the virus is less active when it’s warm,’ says David Hui, professor of respiratory medicine at Chinese University.

A string of countries paused funding to the aid agency in the wake of allegations that some UNRWA staff were involved in Hamas’ October 7 attacks in southern Israel.

Academic estimates 28,000 smokers will quit habit, preventing 9,350 premature deaths.

Mathematicians from Germany and Hong Kong say ‘the market is not more likely to be the origin’ when compared to other nearby landmarks, although they do not offer a hypothesis on where the outbreak started.

The ICJ ruling stopped short of ordering a ceasefire, but was in part a rebuke of Israel’s conduct in its nearly four-month war against Hamas.