WASHINGTON - Just three weeks after publication, Indian American cancer specialist Siddhartha Mukherjee's first book "The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer" has been rated among "The 10 Best Books of 2010" by the New York Times.

Port-au-PRINCE - The toll in the cholera epidemic which began in Haiti at the end of October has killed 2,071 people till date, officials have said.