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KABUL, Nov 2 (Reuters) - Afghanistan declared a health emergency on Monday to help the government prevent the rapid spread of H1N1 and ordered schools closed for three weeks as part of measures against the deadly virus.
Nov 2, 2009 at 14:52 | Reuters
LONDON, Nov 2 (Reuters) - World stocks added to the previous week's losses on Monday, hugging one-month lows as investors pulled back from a more than seven month rally and prepared for the eventual withdrawal of stimulative monetary policy.
Nov 2, 2009 at 14:51 | Reuters
Afghanistan declares H1N1 emergency, shuts schools KABUL - Afghanistan declared a health emergency on Monday to help the government prevent the rapid spread of H1N1 and ordered schools closed for three weeks as part of measures against the deadly virus.
Nov 2, 2009 at 14:31 | Reuters
NEW YORK, Nov 1 (Reuters) - The U.S. economy has been kick-started into growth but stock investors still face an uncertain outlook as Wall Street gears up for comments from the Federal Reserve and a key report on employment this week.
Nov 2, 2009 at 09:05 | Reuters
Nov 2 (Reuters) - Investing $39 billion in preventing and treating pneumonia, the disease that is the world's leading killer of young children, could save up to 5.3 million lives by 2015, the World Health Organisation (WHO) and the United Nations children's fund (UNICEF) said on Monday.
Nov 2, 2009 at 09:02 | Reuters
LONDON, Nov 2 (Reuters) - Pneumonia kills more young children than any other disease, but an investment of $39 billion, or just $12.9 per child, could save 5.3 million lives in developing countries by 2015, the U.N. said on Monday.
Nov 2, 2009 at 09:01 | Reuters
CHICAGO, Nov 1 (Reuters) - A more protective form of Pfizer's vaccine for pneumococcal disease would be highly effective at preventing deaths from pandemic influenza, independent researchers and the company reported over the weekend.
Nov 2, 2009 at 08:59 | Reuters
Space hotel says it's on schedule to open in 2012 BARCELONA, Nov 2 (Reuters Life!) - A company behind plans to open the first hotel in space says it is on target to accept its first paying guests in 2012 despite critics questioning the investment and time frame for the multi-billion dollar project.
Nov 2, 2009 at 08:55 | Reuters
SEOUL, Nov 2 (Reuters) - A promise by North Korean leader Kim Jong-il to improve the state's broken economy is forcing him to ask for massive aid and may even bring him back to nuclear talks that Pyongyang once declared dead.
Nov 2, 2009 at 08:52 | Reuters