Philippines typhoon toll rises to 26
The death toll from flash floods and landslides triggered by a tropical storm rose to 26 on Saturday as disaster relief officials also reported 10 people still missing in two central Philippine
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Organic farming gaining on traditional industry
Despite its reputation as a country at peace, there is indeed a battle being waged in Costa Rica.It is the battle for recognition, financial viability and governmental support faced by thousands of
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Trucks evolve by natural selction
A small Canadian company believes it has found the answer to hauliers mounting fuel costs while satisfying environmentalists' calls for cleaner engines. Westport Innnovations, spun out of a
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France says Channel pollution tests reassuring
Initial pollution tests around a sunken tanker in the Channel were reassuring but France must remain vigilant about the submerged toxic cargo, French Transport Minister Jean-Claude Gayssot said
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War against polio nearing goal, 2 million immunised
The city government on Sunday said more than 20 lakh children under the age of five in Delhi have been immunised under the Pulse Polio Immunisation
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Medical bills a prescription for conflict
No issue has provoked sharper exchanges between the presidential candidates or generated more friction in congressional races across US than that of healthcare in general and prescription drug
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Thailand cuts spending on prevention of Aids
Thailand has sharply reduced its spending on Aids prevention efforts since the Asian economic crisis, and experts warn that its early success in reducing the spread of the infection could be
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Ministry to tackle hepatitis C
After years on the back burner, Japan's Ministry of Health and Welfare set up a project team Wednesday to study the nationwide outbreak of hepatitis C caused by unheated imported blood products and
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Digital copy law endorsed
In a decision giving copyright holders greater control over the way people use books, movies and music that are distributed in digital form, the U.S. Copyright Office has endorsed a new federal law
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China nations will soon launch manned spacecraft
China will soon put a person into space and become the third nation in the world to boast manned space flight, a top Chinese aerospace official said on
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Ban called in Great Barrier Reef
Conservationists called Friday for ships carrying dangerous cargo to be banned from the Great Barrier Reef, a day after a container ship ran aground on the fragile coral."Accidents will happen if we
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Anti-cancer protein found
Alberta scientists say they've figured out how cancer tumours keep living while the body's immune system tries to shut them down. They hope this knowledge will offer drug makers a new avenue to fight
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Ebola suspected in Uganda town
International health officials confirmed Thursday that the deadly Ebola virus has claimed a victim hundreds of miles from the Ugandan town where they had hoped to confine a recent outbreak.Experts
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S.Africa cholera epidemic spreading
Several times a day, Roslina Motha walks from her home in rural South Africa to a nearby river to fill two 6{ gallon containers with water.Her simple chore-in an area teeming with cholera-has
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Anna Hazare praises state cleanliness drive
Noted social worker Anna Hazare has congratulated the state rural development department for initiating a new approach in community development by launching a campaign for village sanitation and
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Typhoon hits Manila, 24 dead, city grinds to halt
At least 24 people were killed on Friday after a typhoon slammed into the northern Philippines island of Luzon and roared through the capital Manila, officials
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Tax taken in developed world at record, says OECD
Tax revenues have risen to an all-time high in the developed world, according to new figures released by the Organisation for Economic Co-Operation and
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Lessons from weather chaos
The UK government promised a sweeping overhaul of emergency planning, saying there were lessons to be learned from the widespread chaos caused by Monday's violent storm. Warning that extreme weather
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Northwest's Swan Lake no tragedy, says expert
Despite sightings of white swans in the barren Taklimakan Desert in Northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, experts refute suggestions that the beautiful birds are migrating there. The
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Wastewater fouls sea farming areas
Emergency measures are being taken to ensure that shellfish killed in a serious water pollution accident in Shandong's Jiaozhou Gulf last week do not enter into the market, sources from the