JERUSALEM, ISRAEL (BNO NEWS) — Israeli President Shimon Peres underwent successful surgery in Tel Aviv on Friday to treat a hernia which was discovered in his abdomen earlier this week, his spokesman said. He is expected to be released from hospital o…

HOUSTON, TEXAS (BNO NEWS) — A Texas woman gave birth to six babies at a hospital in Houston on Monday morning, the hospital and the parents announced on Tuesday. The sextuplets are in a stable condition, although the couple previously reported health …

PHNOM PENH, CAMBODIA (BNO NEWS) — A six-year-old girl died from bird flu in central Cambodia late last week, the country’s health ministry and the World Health Organization (WHO) confirmed on Monday. It is the second bird flu death in the country so f…

PITTSBURGH, Pennsylvania (BNO NEWS) — A gunman opened fire at a psychiatric hospital in Pennsylvania on Thursday afternoon, killing one person and wounding several others before he was shot dead by a campus police officer, local authorities said.

The…

NEW DELHI, India (BNO NEWS) — The World Health Organization (WHO) has removed India from its list of polio-endemic countries, Health and Family Planning Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad said on Saturday.

The decision came after India successfully completed…

JAKARTA, Indonesia (BNO NEWS) — A 12-year-old boy has died of bird flu on the Indonesian island of Bali, bringing the country’s death toll from the disease to 154 since 2005, the Ministry of Health confirmed on Saturday.

According to a press release …

MEXICO CITY (BNO NEWS) — An ongoing swine flu outbreak in Mexico has left at least 29 people dead and nearly 1,500 others infected, health officials confirmed on Saturday. Thousands more are also ill as the country faces several types of flu this seas…

MEXICO CITY (BNO NEWS) — The Mexican government on Tuesday began sending emergency aid to the northern state of Chihuahua where the Tarahumara communities are suffering from severe food shortages, officials said on Wednesday.

The Ministry of Social D…

BUENOS AIRES, ARGENTINA (BNO NEWS) — Argentinean President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner, who was diagnosed with cancer last month, did not have the disease and has been sent home following her surgery, doctors said on Saturday.

Argentinean Public …