O número dois do chavismo, deputado Diosdado Cabello, disse nesta quarta-feira que os funcionários públicos venezuelanos que firmaram o pedido de referendo revogatório do mandato do presidente Nicolás Maduro deveriam ser demitidos.

"Uma revolução se faz com revolucionários. Se entre estas assinaturas está a de um diretor de órgão público, ele deve sair (.

O principal recrutador australiano do grupo jihadista Estado Islâmico, ligado a vários ataques na Austrália, morreu no Iraque em um bombardeio da aviação americana, informou Canberra nesta quinta-feira.

As autoridades australianas e americanas qualificaram de relevante a morte de Neil Prakash, que desempenhava um importante papel como recrutador do grupo jihadista.

Rosa Roisinblit, a vice-presidente da organização Avós da Praça de Maio, encarou nesta quarta-feira Omar Graffigna, chefe da Força Aérea durante a ditadura argentina e acusado pelo desaparecimento de sua filha e o genro, em 1978.

"Estou muito contente por chegar a viver este momento", disse Rosa, 96 anos, ao final do depoimento no julgamento de Graffigna e de outros dois acusados pelo desaparecimento de sua filha.

One day, cardiac patients may enjoy a new lease on life with pig hearts beating in their chests, said researchers reporting a major advance Tuesday in cross-species organ transplantation.

Given the dire shortage of organ donors, the use of animal hearts, lungs or livers to save human lives has long been a holy grail of medical science.

With summer approaching, Zika may find its way into virus-carrying mosquitoes in Europe or the United States, disease experts have warned, but any outbreaks are likely to be small and short-lived.

Doctors and scientists attending a major infectious diseases conference in Amsterdam said there was no reason to panic, and the idea of screening travellers was far-fetched.

Greece, beset by economic difficulties and a migration crisis, will hold a traditional ceremony Thursday for the Rio Olympics as Brazil battles its own political woes.

The dress rehearsal for the lighting of the Olympic flame in ancient Olympia went ahead smoothly Wednesday, and the official ceremony on Thursday will launch a four-month torch relay culminating at Maracana Stadium for the Games opening ceremony on August 5.

A recent study from the National Food Institute, Technical University of Denmark, has provided more evidence to suggest that exposure to bisphenol A, commonly found in plastic water bottles, can have a negative effect on health, even when exposed to low doses.

Apple confirmed Tuesday that it has hired robotics star and Google X lab co-founder Yoky Matsuoka to work on health projects.

Matsuoka, a winner of the MacArthur genius award, last year left her job as a vice president at Google-owned Nest.

Her plan to take a job at San Francisco-based one-to-many messaging service Twitter was derailed last year by a "life-threatening illness," Matsuoka wrote in an online post at medium.com.

Cristiano Ronaldo lauded the impact made by Real Madrid boss Zinedine Zidane as the Frenchman led the Spanish giants into the Champions League final with a 1-0 win over Manchester City. Zidane replaced the sacked Rafael Benitez with Madrid in crisis in January, but has sparked just Real's second run to the final in the 14 years since he scored the winning goal against Bayer Leverkusen for Real in 2002.

O governista Partido da Justiça e o Desenvolvimento (AKP) fará nas próximas semanas um congresso extraordinário - informaram as emissoras NTV e CNN Türk, no momento em que o futuro do primeiro-ministro turco parece incerto.

O chefe de governo turco, Ahmet Davutoglu, também líder do AKP, reuniu-se nesta quarta-feira à noite por mais de uma hora e meia com o presidente turco, Recep Tayyip Erdogan.