Nipah, a rare and often deadly disease which is back in the news with a student in Kerala diagnosed with the infection, is a zoonotic virus which means it is transmitted from animals such as bats or pigs to humans, and can also spread through contaminated food and people-to-people contact.

Nipah virus: How it spreads, past outbreaks, what to watch out for

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World Environment Day: IIT-Delhi alumni's low-cost solution to beat air pollution

Rivers worldwide are polluted with antibiotics that exceed environmental safety thresholds by up to 300 times, according to research unveiled at a conference Monday.

World's rivers loaded with antibiotics waste: Study

Libyan strongman Khalifa Haftar, who is leading a military offensive against the UN-recognised government in Tripoli, said in an interview published Sunday he will continue fighting until militias in the city laid down their arms.

Libya's Khalifa Haftar says to fight until Tripoli 'militias' defeated

UN envoy Ghassan Salame has bitterly denounced the conflict in Libya saying it is "committing suicide" and plundering its oil wealth to pay for the war. The north African country was "a textbook example of foreign interference today in local conflicts," Salame told a New York-based think tank late Wednesday.

Libya committing suicide, squandering oil riches: UN envoy

Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi met Sunday with Libyan commander Khalifa Haftar, whose forces are fighting for control of the capital Tripoli, state media reported.

Egypt's Sisi meets Libyan strongman Haftar in Cairo: State media

Humanitarian workers are struggling to calm community fears in strife-torn eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, where 125 people have died of Ebola, and cases of the virus are spreading fast.

Community fears grow as DR Congo Ebola death toll climbs to 125

More than 3 million people died in 2016 due to drinking too much alcohol, meaning one in 20 deaths worldwide was linked to harmful drinking, the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Friday.

Alcohol abuse kills 3 million a year, most of them men: WHO

Ebola can reach a mortality rate of up to 90 per cent, and is widely feared for its destructive internal and external bleeding.

13th confirmed Ebola death in latest DR Congo outbreak, 27 suspected in total

Some countries, such as Mexico, France and Britain, are already taxing sugary drinks

WHO panel split on soft drink sugar tax to cut obesity

The United Arab Emirates (UAE) has banned imports of fresh vegetables and fruits from Kerala where 13 people have died due to an outbreak of the rare brain-damaging Nipah virus, the Gulf state said on Tuesday

UAE bans fruits from Kerala after Nipah virus outbreak

Saudi Arabia has said that two of its soldiers were killed in fighting against Yemen's Huthi rebels as the kingdom reported foiling a drone attack on a southern airport

Saudi Arabia says 2 soldiers killed in Yemen fighting

The draft recommendations, the first since 2002, are aimed at reducing non-communicable diseases, led by cardiovascular diseases, blamed for 72 percent of the 54.7 million estimated deaths worldwide every year, many before the age of 70

Eat less saturated, trans fats to curb heart disease: WHO

The yearly average concentrations of particulate matter with a length of 2.5 microns or less, known as PM2.5 and which damage the lungs when inhaled, dropped by 35.6 percent in 2017

China meets 2017 air pollution target

On Sunday, the third Test between India and Sri Lanka was stopped three times -- because of pollution

Doctors say no to sport in Delhi as cricketers choke in smog

Millions of women spend hours every day traveling 6 kms on an average to fetch water

The burden of carrying water for our use rests on women

The fever was centred in rural areas of Minas Gerais, with the health ministry probing another 47 deaths and 368 suspected cases

Brazil: At least 40 killed in yellow fever outbreak

World's newest nation has been caught up in more than two years of ethnically charged fighting

Tens of thousands of people flee South Sudan as fresh violence erupts: UN