China has selected six experiments from the international community to be conducted aboard its future space station, with possibly more to be granted access. Countries organizing the experiments include Switzerland, Belgium, France, Germany, India, Italy, Japan, Kenya, the Netherlands, Norway, Mexico, Poland, Peru, Russian Federation, Saudi Arabia and Spain.

While 48% of young adults in the US received a higher-education degree in 2017, a report by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development highlights disparities in college attainment among states. The largest gap -- 43 percentage points -- was seen between the District of Columbia and Nevada, and was the second-widest of any OECD country behind the Russian Federation.

United Nations human rights experts are calling on Russia to intervene after reports of torture and killings of gay men in Chechnya surfaced. "The Russian Federation must officially state that it does not tolerate any form of incitement to violence, social stigmatization of homosexuality or hate speech, and does not condone discrimination or violence against people based on their sexual orientation or gender identity," they said.

Biocad's HERtiCAD, a biosimilar version of Roche's cancer drug Herceptin, or trastuzumab, obtained approval from the Ministry of Healthcare of the Russian Federation. Biocad says it will price the treatment at least 10% below the value of its reference drug.