Purged Chinese leader in hospital
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The Chinese government says detained former Party leader Zhao Ziyang is ill but stable in hospital.
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The head of an Iranian human rights group jailed on security charges was sent to a local hospital after collapsing in a prison shower, his lawyer said Thursday.
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Zhao Ziyang, former Chinese Communist Party chief who was purged for sympathizing with the Tiananmen pro-democracy protests, lay in a deep coma on Sunday and could die at any time, a source close to his family said.
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The Chinese authorities will hold a low-key funeral service for Zhao Ziyang, the purged Communist Party chief.
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China has arrested the manager of a factory which used grease from swill, sewage and recycled industrial oil to make edible lard, a Chinese newspaper said on Monday in the latest health scare to hit the country.
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Britain's deputy leader, John Prescott, is suffering from pneumonia and being closely monitored in a special hospital ward, his office said Tuesday.
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The governor of the Chinese province shaken by a slave labor scandal publicly apologized on Friday, as officials described farmers, children and mentally impaired people snatched into a grim rural underworld.
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Suharto's family and doctors rushed to his bedside on Friday after the former Indonesian dictator's lungs showed the dangerous early signs of infection, doctors and a family aide said. One physician said his condition was deteriorating.
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Zhao Ziyang, a Chinese leader purged for his support of the 1989 Tiananmen Square pro-democracy movement, remained in a deep coma Sunday, according to a human rights activist in contact with his family, but state media did not disclose the ailing leader's condition to the Chinese public.
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Shanghai's top Communist Party leader has been sacked over a major corruption scandal, China's state press said, although analysts suggested it could be part of a power play by President Hu Jintao.
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Zhao Ziyang, the former Chinese  Communist Party chief who was purged for sympathizing with the  Tiananmen pro-democracy protests, lay in a deep coma Sunday and  could die at any time, a source close to his family said.
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The head of Bangladesh&#39;s emergency government was admitted to a military hospital in the capital Dhaka Sunday after he fainted Sunday following an hour-long speech in hot weather, an official said.
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Japanese leader Shinzo Abe is admitted to hospital, a day after announcing his decision to step down.
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The head of an Iranian human rights group jailed on security charges was sent to a local hospital after collapsing in a prison shower, said his lawyer on Thursday.
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Former Indonesian dictator Suharto's health appeared to be worsening Tuesday, with signs of internal bleeding and fluid building up in his lungs, the chief presidential doctor said.
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Iraq's ousted leader Saddam Hussein has had a hernia operation at a Baghdad hospital, officials reveal.
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The health of former Indonesian president Suharto, who was rushed to hospital in a critical condition last week, deteriorated on Tuesday as doctors tried to avert multiple organ failure, a member of his medical team said.