By Hossein Ziaee*

A blood test designed to detect more than 50 types of cancer at an early stage will be trialed by the UK National Health Service (NHS).

The EU’s disease control agency and the WHO called for better HIV testing to spot cases early following rising undiagnosed cases especially in Eastern Europe, Russia and Central Asia.

Buried under a Serbian cornfield close to a coalmine, the well-preserved remains of a Roman legion’s headquarters are being excavated by archeologists who say its rural location makes it unique.

A survey by the central bank, Maldives Monetary Authority (MMA) showed that the number of tourist arrivals to Maldives in the third quarter of 2020 saw a decline of 95 percent compared to the same period of 2019.

The list of plastics which residents of Palmerston North, New Zealand, will not be able to put in their kerbside recycling bins is about to grow.

European Central Bank policymaker Francois Villeroy de Galhau has rejected suggestions that the institution should consider writing off the public debt it bought during the pandemic, saying to do so would backfire.

Germany plans to borrow almost €180 billion ($214.60 billion) next year, nearly double the amount initially foreseen, as Berlin extends aid measures to mitigate impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on Europe’s biggest economy, lawmakers told Reuters on Friday.

Profits of China’s major industrial firms totaled 642.91 billion yuan (about $97.77 billion) in October, increasing by 28.2 percent year on year, data from the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) showed on Friday.

More than three billion people live in agricultural areas with high levels of water shortages and scarcity, the UN agriculture agency said in a new report.