Washington, November 12: A report issued by the United Nations University’s Institute of Advanced Studies in Yokohama, Japan, says that the time has come when all countries should quickly take a collective decision whether or not to ban human cloning.

Entitled Is Human Reproductive Cloning Inevitable: Future Options for UN Governance, the report also states that in case the nations chose not to outlaw human cloning, they should remain prepared to protect the rights of cloned individuals from potential abuse, prejudice and discrimination.

“Whichever path the international community chooses it will need to act soon – either to prevent reproductive cloning or to defend the human rights of cloned individuals, ” says UNU-IAS Director A. H. Zakri.

Melbourne, Nov 12: A new study has challenged the widely believed view that high school students who lose their virginity at an early age tend to take to a life of crime.

Jakarta: A health ministry representative said that an Indonesian man from Riau region on Sumatra Island has died of bird flu.

The recent death takes the country’s death toll from the bird flu ailment to 91.

Lili Sulistyowati, health ministry spokeswoman said that it was not clear if the 31-year-old man who passed away on Tuesday had been in contact with ailing fowl, which is the most usual way of getting the infection.

Another representative at the government department’s bird flu centre told that the man, who had been suffering from coughing, fever and breathing troubles, expired while being shifted from a local hospital in Duri region to a hospital in Pekanbaru.

Washington, Nov 11 : Researchers have revealed that vulvodynia is the actual reason behind women experiencing painful sex.

Washington, Nov 11 : Stress can not only take a toll on a person’s physical and psychological being, it also can lead to various dermatological problems, such as acne, brittle nails or even hair lo

Washington, Nov 11: Women who are naturally thin may want to start considering putting on weight, for a new study has found that young women who are constitutionally or severely thin, may suffer fr