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Long championed as a leader in adopting digital technology, Sweden is set to ban mobile phones in schools beginning in the fall for the next academic year.

Hundreds of tickets are still available for the U.S. and Canada opening matches for the World Cup on Friday. Even more are available in resale platforms — many at below face value.

A new campaign is using sport’s global reach to stop one million pieces of plastic reaching seas and rivers The post The Commonwealth Games relay taking aim at ocean plastic appeared first on Positive News.

Children are dying because doctors cannot access essential medicines, UN human rights chief Volker Türk said in a stark warning on Monday, calling for the immediate lifting of United States sanctions against the Caribbean nation that were causing “widespread harm”.

Israel and Iran's recent exchange of fire is threatening the truce in the Middle East. And, the Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo is spreading at an unprecedented rate, officials say.

More than 40 million adults in the U.S. aged 50 and older have osteopenia, or low bone density. An FDA-approved wearable vibration device is giving some women a tool that could slow that loss.

The Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology said the epicenter was 8 miles from General Santos city on the island of Mindanao.

The combination of a vaccine and a drug, which both harness the immune system to attack cancer cells, has proven successful in cutting the risk of skin cancer recurrence and death by 49 percent, a new study shows. This reduction was calculated five years after patients had their tumors surgically re...

A woman in hospice asked the staff to grant her dying wish and find her long-lost brother—and he turned out to be working in one of their own charity thrift shops. Muriel Bujega told workers at St. Christopher’s Hospice—where she is being given palliative care for breast cancer—she wanted to be reun...