Tropic Of Cancer

Periods of unusually hot weather are on the rise in Africa and may become a normal occurrence in 20 years, which could have a damaging effect on life expectancy and crop production in the continent, a new study has warned.

People facing one of medicine's most dreaded diagnoses may someday have an unlikely source of hope: Injections that treat some types of brain cancer with part of a deadly tropical virus.

The throng waited for Hugo Chavez under a searing tropical sun, a sea of red shirts waving Venezuelan flags, clutching pictures of their leftist hero, chanting "Chavez lives! The struggle goes on!"

Periods of unusually hot weather are on the rise in Africa and may become a normal occurrence in 20 years, which could have a damaging effect on life expectancy and crop production in the continent, a new study has warned.

People facing one of medicine's most dreaded diagnoses may someday have an unlikely source of hope: Injections that treat some types of brain cancer with part of a deadly tropical virus.

The throng waited for Hugo Chavez under a searing tropical sun, a sea of red shirts waving Venezuelan flags, clutching pictures of their leftist hero, chanting "Chavez lives! The struggle goes on!"