Routine childhood vaccinations will have prevented hundreds of millions of illnesses, tens of millions of hospitalizations and more than 1 million deaths among people born between 1994 and 2023, according to the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Budget sector employees in the western Turkmenistan province of Balkan, including teachers and doctors, were forced to interrupt their vacations and work on trimming and harvesting cotton, reported Azatlyk, the Turkmen section of Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty. "The work is very hard manual labor, and temperatures hovering around 105 degrees Fahre...