WASHINGTON, Oct. 28 (Xinhua) -- A growing body of research data suggests that consuming foods rich in polyphenols from grapes, including red wine, helps reduce the risk of heart disease, according to a review article in the November issue of Nutrition Research. "Consumption of grape and grape extracts and/or grape products such as red wine may be beneficial in preventing the development of chronic degenerative diseases such as cardiovascular disease," write the authors from Australia's Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization.

WASHINGTON, Oct. 28 (Xinhua) -- The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) on Tuesday sent Warning Letters to Bayer HealthCare concerning two unlawful, over-the-counter aspirin products. The products -- Bayer Women's Low Dose Aspirin + Calcium (Bayer Women's) and Bayer Aspirin with Heart Advantage (Bayer Heart Advantage) -- contain aspirin with either calcium or phytosterols. "They are unapproved new drugs that require an approved new drug application in order to be legally marketed," FDA said in a statement.

BEIJING, Oct. 29 (Xinhuanet) -- A seven-year research trying to find the effects of Vitamin E and selenium supplements on prostate cancer has been halted because, either alone or together, they do not reduce the risk, and may even heighten it, according to media report Wednesday. The 114 million-dollars study was conducted by U.S. National Cancer Institute, involving more than 35,000 subjects and at 400 sites around the United States.

BEIJING, Oct. 21 -- Experts warned that cell phone users may get a skin rash in reaction to the nickel in their cell phones, according to media reports on Tuesday. Doctors baffled by an unexplained rash on people's ears or cheeks should be on alert for a skin allergy caused by too much mobile phone use, the British Association of Dermatologists said.

PARIS, Oct. 12 (Xinhua) -- Leaders from the eurozone countries hammered out an action plan in a joint response to the unfolding financial crisis at their first ever summit in Paris Sunday. The financial crisis "needs concrete measures and unity. That is what we have today," French President Nicolas Sarkozy, who hosted the emergency summit with his counterparts from the other 14 eurozone members, said at a press conference.

GENEVA, Oct. 10 (Xinhua) -- An unknown disease has killed three persons in the South African capital of Johannesburg, the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Friday. The first person who caught the disease was a woman living and working in Zambia. She was evacuated to South Africa and died in a Johannesburg hospital on Sept. 14, the UN agency said in a statement. A paramedic and a nurse who cared for the patient also got infected and died in Johannesburg on Oct. 2 and Oct. 5 respectively.

NEW YORK, Oct. 6 (Xinhua) -- Wall Street rebounded Monday afternoon from early deep losses as investors hunted for bargain after the major indexes plunging more than 7 percent. However, the Dow Jones industrial average was down more than 300 points to settle below 10,000 points, the first time since October 2004. Wall Street joined a global sell-off as investors realized that the U.S. government's 700-billion-U.S. dollar rescue plan won't work quickly to unfreeze the credit markets.

by Wang Xiangjiang and Wu Zhiqiang UNITED NATIONS, Sept. 5 (Xinhua) -- Three decades after the advent of its reforms and opening up, China has become another engine driving the world economy in addition to the United States, UN Under-Secretary-General Sha Zukang has said. China has enjoyed 30 years of continuous and rapid development, expanding its economic aggregate by nearly 15 times and its foreign trade more than 100 times, a sustained fast growth rare in modern world history, Sha told Xinhua in a recent interview in his office at the UN headquarters in New York.

CANBERRA, Oct. 3 (Xinhua) -- The diets of Australian teenagers are severely lacking in fruit and vegetables and almost one-quarter of children are overweight or obese, according to Australian National Children's Nutrition and Physical Activity Report issued on Friday. Only one percent of 14 to 16-year-olds eat enough fruit, while just 5 percent of that age bracket meets the daily recommended vegetable intake, and four out of five teenage girls are not getting enough calcium, said the report which was conducted by a team of scientists.

SINGAPORE, Oct. 4 (Xinhua) -- Breast cancer rates in Singapore have increased by about 25 percent over the past ten years, a government minister said on Saturday. Speaking at the launch of a local breast cancer support group on Saturday, Singapore's Minister of State for Community Development, Youth and Sports Yu-Foo Shoon said that the number of women who are diagnosed with breast cancer in Singapore is growing with about 1,300 women in the city state every year.