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Japan urged to stop requiring surgery for ID gender change

Mar 20, 2019

Human Rights Watch is urging Japan to drop its requirement that transgender people be sterilized to have their gender changed on official documents

Smoking strong pot daily raises psychosis risk, study finds

Mar 19, 2019

Scientists say smoking high-potency marijuana every day could increase the chances of developing psychosis by about five times

Conflicting reports surround fate of baby of UK IS bride

Mar 8, 2019

There are conflicting reports Friday about the newborn son of U.K.-born teenager Shamima Begum, who left her London home to join the Islamic State group in Syria, after Begum's lawyer said the boy was reported to have died

Passengers, crew on Virgin flight quarantined in UK

Mar 6, 2019

Passengers and crew on a Virgin Atlantic charter flight from Barbados to London have been put into quarantine because of widespread illness on board the flight

UK leader visits Salisbury a year after Novichok attack

Mar 4, 2019

British Prime Minister Thresa May has praised the "spirit and resolve" of people in Salisbury, the English city hit by a nerve-agent attack on a former Russian spy a year ago

UK authorities finish cleanup of sites in Skripal poisoning

Mar 1, 2019

Britain has completed its cleanup of the southwestern English city of Salisbury, where a former Russian double agent was poisoned with a nerve agent

Don't expect to puff away at next year's Tokyo Olympics

Feb 28, 2019

Organizers of next year's Tokyo Olympics have announced a stringent ban on all tobacco products and vaping devices

China drafts rules on biotech after gene-editing scandal

Feb 27, 2019

China unveils draft regulations on gene editing and other potentially risky biomedical technologies after a Chinese scientist's claim of helping to create gene-edited babies roiled the global science community

Why do zebras have stripes? Perhaps to dazzle away flies

Feb 21, 2019

Zebra stripes are dazzling, particularly to flies and scientists say that might be the answer to how zebras got their stripes

11 wounded in China knife attack blamed on mentally ill man