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Janet Reno, the first female US Attorney General who was in office eight turbulent years under Bill Clinton, is at the age of 78 deceased Parkinson's disease. That US media reported Monday.

The targets under the climate agreement in Paris do not go far enough. Friday is the climate agreement in force, but according to the UN Environment Agency to CO2 emissions further be reduced an additional quarter.

Young people get severe symptoms that they even continue to use social media in bed. Twente develop at least 200 young people per year sleeping problems, estimate two neurologists in Tubantia. 'These are only the boys and girls in our consulting rooms. They are aware of the symptoms. In reality, faces a much larger group of this, 'said Iris Knottnerus and Loes Reichman.

Liberia, in west Africa, is urgently seeking $ 1.3 billion (nearly 1.2 billion euros) to breathe new life into the economy collapsed completely after the Ebola crisis.

The volume of industrial 'bad' fats in snacks like pizzas, chips or microwave popcorn must be reduced. The European Parliament wants a legal limit. It voted Wednesday in Strasbourg with a proposal that the number of deaths is expected to reduce as a result of excessive consumption of so-called trans fatty acids in the EU.

The United Nations asking the international community 200 million dollars (184 million euros) for the victims of the cholera outbreak in Haiti in 2010. The plans for the million aid mean no admission of guilt, said David Nabarro, Special Representative of Secretary General Ban Ki Moon on Monday in New York.

A group of Asian seafarers who was robbed was released by Somali pirates more than four years ago. That the Somali authorities and Oceans Beyond Piracy (OCP), an organization that fights piracy, announced.

In European hospitals each year 91,000 people die from infections they picked up on the spot. That a new study showed. The number of patients being infected in a clinic is estimated at 2.6 million. It often involves pneumonia, septicemia, urinary tract and wound infections. Illness Cases are including multidrug resistant bacteria.

Older people who suffer from standing up too quickly from a sudden low blood pressure, later in life increased risk of dementia. That Erasmus MC concludes an investigation.

Matthew has hurricane in Haiti, one of the world's poorest countries, demanded at least 1000 lives. Which Reuters calculated based on information from local officials. Haitians try as best as it can gently pick up the thread again.

Authorities in northern Siberia are planning for Christmas certainly finish a quarter of a million reindeer. The governor of the Yamalo-Nenets region, Dmitri Kobilkin, has called quickly to come up with a plan to get rid of the animals.

An Indian mother this week gave birth to a baby with a rare disease, which he previously eighty seems zero years old.

The disease has been eradicated measles in the Americas. This announced the Pan American Health Organization Tuesday. It is the first continent where it sometimes very harmful and in some cases deadly viral disease has been officially banned.

Under tight security is Pakistan Monday began a large vaccination campaign against polio. Approximately 100,000 vaccination teams hope within three days 37 million children immune to the crippling viral disease.

"The district in Miami this summer was startled by a sudden outbreak of the zikavirus, no longer applies as endangered area. Wynwood in the past 45 days, no new cases of infection detected. Has announced that the governor of Florida, Rick Scott, Monday. The neighborhood is thus officially zikavrij."

"Wheelchair Athlete Marieke Vervoort (37), which reflect told euthanized earlier after the Paralympic Games in Rio is not yet ready for death. That allow the athlete to know BBC."

Scientists have in South America, the discovered bacterium that is responsible for scrub typhus. The infectious disease is caused by the bacterium Orientia Tsutsugamushi. Up to now, one was in the assumption that the bacterium occurred only in a limited area in Asia and Australia.

Dutch general used rarely or never his stethoscope to listen to the heart of the patient. Hence are missed often valvular heart disease.

Over four hundred participants in early June opwandeld Mont Ventoux, oprend or opfietst. That brought 774,000 euros. The ALS Foundation Netherlands got the money (check) Saturday handed

The famous French fashion designer Sonia Rykiel is deceased at the age of 86. She suffered recent years, from Parkinson's disease.

A fungal forgive bagpipe shows a British sixties to become fatal.

A 13-year-old Egyptian boy has on its own made the perilous crossing to Italy to save his dying brother. He said when he arrived along with hundreds of illegal migrants on the island of Lampedusa.

Syrian state prisons in the past five years, an estimated 17 723 people have been killed by torture, beatings and disease. That concludes Amnesty International in a report published Thursday.

Puerto Rico is a state of emergency declared by the widespread dissemination of the zikavirus,, represents a substantial threat 'to public health in the US territory. This was announced by the US Department of Health Friday (local time).

Natural Healer Klaus Ross with a clinic in Bracht is suspected of wrongful death and / or serious abuse in several cases. The German public prosecutor in Krefeld suspects him of the death of three people, including a Dutch man and woman, after administration of a drug in his clinic. That made the OM Friday.

Two children in Nigeria were paralyzed by polio. It is the first time in two years that the virus reappears in Africa, the World Health Organization suggested Thursday.

The food industry succeeds in regulation that should reduce the use of sugar to stop or undermine. Therefore Europe is losing the battle against heart disease, obesity and diabetes due to excessive sugar consumption.

Thanks to the internet phenomenon of the ice bucket challenge has found a new gene ALS is linked to the disease. The discovery of the gene represents a breakthrough in research into the disease, experts say the discovery could lead to new treatment options.

Tens of thousands of babies will be born with the possible zikavirus related microcephaly. Which scientists predict in the journal Nature Microbiology.

A group of scientists from Sweden and Ethiopia have discovered that mosquitoes do not like chicken smell. The scientists published their findings in the journal Malaria Journal, which focuses specifically on research into malaria.