UN seeks a new framework for trade
The world's least developed countries have not benefited from free trade, and globalization is making the gap between the poorest nations and the rest of the world grow larger, leaders at a UN
The world's least developed countries have not benefited from free trade, and globalization is making the gap between the poorest nations and the rest of the world grow larger, leaders at a UN
At least 35 people have died in flooding from rains that have swamped parts of southern Africa and cut major road links, television and radio stations reported Thursday. The South African emergency
The German government cleared the way for a resumption of British beef imports Wednesday after a nearly four-year ban prompted by fears of "mad-cow" disease. European Union authorities lifted a
Using a new statistical method and one of the world's most powerful computers, scientists at the Los Alamos National Laboratory say that they have traced the origin of the AIDs epidemic to around
Delegates from more than 130 countries have adopted the first global treaty regulating trade in genetically modified products, setting up an international framework for the increasingly heated and
The disclosure of worse than shoddy research practices at the University of Pennsylvania's Institute for Human Gene Therapy sends a cold shiver through the field. Even ardent supporters of gene
After decades of denials, the U.S. government is conceding that workers, who helped make nuclear weapons were exposed to radiation and chemicals that produced cancer and early death. The new finding
In an effort to enhance its share of the vast and lucrative Asian cigarette market, British American Tobacco PLC relied on a broad smuggling network in that region, internal company documents
Under pressure from Congress to explain lapses in oversight of gene therapy, federal health officials have acknowledged that they could not be certain whether experiments had hastened, or ever
The European Parliament approved rules on Thursday that would force automakers to bear the full cost of recycling old cars in the 15-nation European Union. The move takes one step closer to adoption