The "Expedicionarios da Saude" (Brazilian Health Expeditions) organization is currently on a medical expedition to the area with volunteer doctors that twice a year build a mobile hospital to provide clinical and surgical treatment for indigenous tribes and residents from different parts of the Amazonian Rainforest.
The UK government has warned people against taking outdoor exercise in the afternoon as a layer of smog has formed over the British capital.
A German privacy watchdog is demanding answers from Apple Inc over whether its iPhones and iPads are secretly collecting data on users' locations.
Russian news agencies are quoting a top space official as saying Russia won't permit a US commercial spacecraft to dock with the International Space Station until it is satisfied the ship conforms to safety standards.
The Russian Space Forces has re-established contact with a military satellite, Geo-IK-2, which went missing in February, local media reported Friday.
The impact of climate change on water resources has become a growing concern for the country's water sector, Chen Lei, minister of water resources, said at a roundtable meeting on climate change Friday.
Privacy watchdogs are demanding answers from Apple Inc. about why iPhones and iPads are secretly collecting location data on users _ records that cellular service providers routinely keep but require a court order to disgorge.
Despite previous concerns, downing lots of coffee doesn't seem to increase the risk of high blood pressure, says a US study.
Apple Inc has completed work on an online music storage service and is set to launch it ahead of Google Inc, whose own music efforts have stalled, according to several people familiar with both companies' plans.
China's newly-developed body scanner with independent Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) made its debut Thursday, promising to quickly detect nonmetal, destructive objects while better protecting privacy.
Workers battling the crisis at Japan's stricken nuclear plant suffer from insomnia, show signs of dehydration and high blood pressure and are at risk of developing depression or heart trouble.
Those childhood music lessons could pay off decades later, even for those who no longer play an instrument, by keeping the mind sharper.