TORONTO - Your higher heart beat at rest indicates a higher risk of dying from heart disease and other cardiovascular causes, said a Canadian study Tuesday.

NEW DELHI - Health and Family Welfare Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad Tuesday urged all countries to increase their allocation of funds for family welfare programmes and called for greater commitment towards issues of family planning and maternal health.

SHIMLA - The Himachal Pradesh government Tuesday ordered a probe into the dumping of 75 units of blood by a government-run medical college in the past couple of months, a minister said.

LONDON - Teenage girls in Britain are being bribed with high street shopping vouchers to receive a highly controversial vaccine.