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The United Nations human rights chief has called on individuals everywhere to consider how they can fight discrimination beginning in their own homes and workplaces, stressing the need to overcome complacency which only contributes to the scourge.

A change of strategy for treating patients suffering from tuberculosis has cured 36 million people worldwide and saved up to 8 million lives over the last decade and a half, according to data released by the United Nations World Health Organization (WHO).

Large Hadron Collider, as we know, has been an issue of debate in recent days especially in the scientific community. Whether this issue is worth debating for it's negative outcomes or for it's positive value, is now the issue left. However, it is generally agreed that this experiment of colliding protons at a very high speed of the order 7eV will yield us some of the various dead blocks in particle physics.

The over hyped 'Y2K bug' didn't bother much. But do you know, why? And what's standing next for the offering? For Y2K bug, it can be understood that being immune to the C Programming language's loopholes, it didn't trouble much. But still there are new ones being sprung up every time. Try Y2K38, Y2K184 and Y29940! These are not new but old ones which didn't get much attention.

New York: Addressing five critical risk factors – underweight childhood, unsafe sex, alcohol use, lack of safe water, sanitation and hygiene, and high blood pressure – could add almost five years to global life expectancy, according to a new United Nations report.

Iodine Deficiency Disorders (IDD) continue to pose a serious threat to the health, well being, economic productivity and advancement of several hundred million people worldwide. People living in iodine deficient environment suffer from reduced mental and physical abilities, cretinism, deaf-mutism, squint, still-birth, abortion, goitre of all ages, neuro-motor defects, etc. Even when born normal, young children whose diets are low in iodine have their lives trapped in mental dullness and apathy.

New York: The simple act of washing hands with soap can drastically reduce deaths from preventable diseases, which are killing thousands of people everyday, a group of United Nations human rights experts stressed as they marked Global Handwashing Day.