Batman, the caped crusader from Gotham City, could easily beat arch rivals Joker and the Penguin without batting an eyelash but an encounter with the Hong Kong's famed but polluted harbor is one he is quick to back out from.

The script of the latest movie sequel calls for dark knight to jump out of a plane into the Victoria Harbor but producers cut the scene, noting the poor water quality is just too dangerous for the action hero, the South China Morning Post reports

Afghanistan is being credited for providing better and advanced health services as the under-5 child mortality rate in the nation has declined years after Taliban rule ended.

The reports said that the health ministry of Afghanistan claims that it has successfully saved thousands of children below 5-years-old who would have died without proper medical care during the authoritarian rule

Half of the new tuberculosis cases in sub-Saharan Africa are now HIV (human immunodeficiency virus) co-infected, the Forum for Collaborative Research reported on Thursday.

The research noted the dual epidemic are threatening the lives of millions of people in the region, especially in slum areas where both TB and HIV are rife

In a major breakthrough, scientists announced Thursday that they have sequenced a genome for one strain of extensively drug-resistant tuberculosis.

The findings could help fight the deadly disease, better diagnosis of the strain and understanding of the mechanisms involved in its resistance to drugs

The Asia Pacific region will meet its target to reduce extreme poverty by half by 2015, a joint report released Monday by the Asian Development Bank (ADB) and the United Nations Development Program (UNDP) said. The region is also ahead of Latin America and Sub-Saharan Africa in meeting its goals of primary education, gender parity and its fight against AIDS.

Called The Millennium Development Goals (MDG) 2007, the report is in partnership with the United Nations (UN) Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific