Kuwaiti MPs adopt a law making DNA testing mandatory for all of the country's citizens and foreign residents.

An academic says in just a few years, there might be a revolutionary cure for cancers based on genetic mutations.

The key elements of the chemical foundations of life exist only in the carbon-rich environment surrounding dying stars, scientists say.

Iraq has exhumed remains of 165 victims massacred by ISIL from newly found mass graves in Tikrit.

Iraqi Human Rights Ministry gathers the remains of a military base victims massacred by ISIL terrorists and buried in Tikrit. The Human Rigths Ministry aims to find the victims’ identities via DNA tests. The ministry says new sites of mass graves have been found inside the city that most probably belong to the victims of the Speicher base. Meanwhile, hundreds of Iraqi families are waiting to see the DNA test results to find out about the fate of their loves ones. Our correspondent Rahshan Saglam has this report from Baghdad.

Eastern Europe steppe herders may have spread Indo-European languages to other parts of Europe.