Police charges at the Complutense University of Madrid on Wednesday, 14 October, drew condemnation from university rectors, unions and the university itself as the regional education strike began.
More than 6,600 arrests have been made nationwide since the protests began in September. On Tuesday, 13 October, about 200 schools closed, and Greta Thunberg joined pupils outside a lycée in Saint-Denis.
Health minister Carsten Linnemann said the average additional contribution for statutory health insurance could stay at 2.9% next year. Insurers still set their own rates, and the actual average currently sits a little above 3.1%.
Kenya's health ministry says the 39-year-old man developed symptoms on 13 October while already in quarantine. The case comes as the Democratic Republic of the Congo reports more than 9,000 lab-confirmed Ebola cases.
Pope Leo XIV was walking and eating normally on the second day of his hospital stay in Rome, the Vatican said on Wednesday, 14 October, after surgery removed the lower lobe of his right lung.
Sub-Saharan Africa has the highest index value of any world region, and seven of the eight countries with alarming hunger levels are located there. The reports come ahead of World Food Day on 16 October.
Footage of dozens of rats on a pavement near the Sfânta Vineri church drew public outrage. The city hall says the problem stems from waste left by people who feed pigeons, on land administered by the Sector 3 city hall.
Under the bill, pregnant women would be able to have a companion of their choice through labour, birth and transfers between facilities. It now goes to President Nicușor Dan for promulgation.
A 13-year-old boy had a bicycle brake lever lodged in his lower back for three years, until a spine X-ray ordered for leg pain revealed it. Surgeons at the Bambino Gesù children's hospital in Palidoro removed it in a high-complexity operation.
Officials defend the new rules and tell Turkey to stay out, as the Interior Ministry reports 37 detentions and protesters gather outside Azerbaijan's consulate in Istanbul.
A three-year-old boy died on 24 September at the Western Hospital in Grodzisk Mazowiecki. A post-mortem found bowel strangulation, not the meningococcal infection doctors suspected, and prosecutors are now investigating.
A new Lancet Commission names 17 threats to human health over the next 75 years. Its experts say extinction is possible through nuclear famine or AI-created bioweapons, although they consider the likelihood of both low.
Russia told the WHO that no plague case has been recorded after a worker at an Irkutsk research institute died in early October. The agency says the cause of death is still unknown and has asked for more clinical and laboratory data.
The education ministry said 4,615 of 6,684 candidates passed the first competence test on Tuesday, 13 October 2026, a 69.05% pass rate before appeals. Two women heading Bucharest colleges were among those who failed and blamed the 60-minute limit.
The WHO says Russia has not confirmed a cause of death for a 28-year-old woman lab worker in Irkutsk and has seen no evidence of ongoing transmission. Russian authorities say no plague case was recorded in the region and point to pneumonia of undetermined cause.
A 39-year-old woman in Franklin County died of a measles-associated death, the sixth in Pennsylvania's outbreak. The CDC's national tally still counts only two deaths, as Governor Josh Shapiro and Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. dispute how such deaths are defined.
Prosecutor Patricio Ferrari asked for 12 years in prison for neurosurgeon Leopoldo Luque, who led the medical team caring for Diego Maradona before his death at a house in Tigre in November 2020.
A 15-year-old student lost his hand to a police stun grenade in Lens on 5 October, as nationwide demonstrations over school conditions led to 400 school closures and hundreds of injuries.
More than 100 people have been detained in Liège after demonstrations against higher university fees and classroom shortages turned violent, prompting emergency retail closures and ministerial talks.
Congolese health ministry data covering cases up to 12 October show 9,066 confirmed infections and 4,381 deaths, a 48.3% case fatality rate. WHO's vaccine advisers have announced a randomised trial platform for the Bundibugyo strain.
Interim health minister Cseke Attila says the system could stall within two to three weeks without a budget revision. The ministry needs 227 million lei for November alone.
Speaking after the Spurs' preseason game against the Atlanta Hawks, the French NBA star said he hears the teenagers protesting conditions in state schools and supports them.
More than 2 million students stayed home on Friday as smoke from Indonesian forest fires pushed Kuala Lumpur to around 170 on the Air Pollutant Index. Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim said he had personally contacted Indonesian President Prabowo Subianto.
A 15-year-old girl in El Jocote, Guatemala, was presumed dead by her father after she lost consciousness in the family car, then sat up in her coffin while relatives held her wake.
Governor Kathy Hochul issued an executive order declaring a disaster emergency through 4 November after 108 measles cases were reported across New York. The measure expands vaccination powers to pharmacists, paramedics, and midwives.
The US has recorded 3,887 confirmed measles cases in 2026 as of 1 October, more than the 2,289 counted in all of 2025. New York declared a statewide health emergency on Monday.
Deputy Health Minister Eirini Agapidaki announced that the programme will restart with up to eight doses per patient, with the number set individually by the treating doctor. Mammography invitations for 2.4 million women are also being sent out in stages.
The Phi Gennimata programme sends its first invitation texts on 13 October 2026, and almost all ProLambano prevention programmes are expected to be reactivated by the end of October, Deputy Health Minister Marios Themistokleous said.
The report finds the risk of overdiagnosis is rising but has not yet shown it is happening at scale, while about 810,000 children and adults in England wait for an assessment. The Care Quality Commission will start inspecting private clinics.
The bill bans off-premises alcohol sales from 22:00 to 06:00 and all alcohol advertising, including beer. It now goes to the Senate and is due to take effect on 1 January 2027.
The World Health Organization issued its first global guidelines for managing pediatric obesity, advising against weight-loss drugs and bariatric surgery for children under 10 while urging comprehensive family-based lifestyle care.
A World Cancer Research Fund study shows prostate, bowel, and kidney cancers rising among under-50s in England, the United States, and the Netherlands.
Psychisch bedingte Fehltage nahmen laut AOK-Auswertung binnen zehn Jahren um knapp 42 Prozent zu, während die Fehlzeiten insgesamt leicht zurückgingen.
An analysis of 6.1 million people across 118 countries shows women report higher pain levels than men across 11 body sites, with the sharpest rise occurring before age 55.
The government says the lycéen movement is slowing, with 141 of 3,700 lycées closed on Friday morning. Students and unions plan a new mobilisation on Tuesday 13 October, while the 3,000 replacement teachers promised by Édouard Geffray are due to be assigned early next week.
A cross-party parliamentary mission in Paris has proposed restricting energy drink sales to minors under 16 and removing them from vending machines, citing cardiovascular risks and rapid market growth.
Public employment agency ARAN and health unions signed the 2025–2027 collective contract covering 138,000 medical and health executives across Italy, introducing new safety protections and artificial intelligence rules.
National medical unions have postponed an indefinite strike scheduled for 28 October 2026 after snap elections caused healthcare reform to lapse, though doctors in Catalonia will still strike.
The Federation of Associations for the Defence of Public Healthcare released its 12th annual report on Tuesday, revealing that 14.2 million citizens hold private health insurance and private expenditure reached 34 billion euros.
A study led by researchers at Cambridge and the University of East Anglia found that 43% of women with autoimmune conditions were told their illness had a psychiatric cause, against 33% of men. Women also reported waiting one to two years for a diagnosis, while most men said it took under three months.
