North Korean recovery
United Nations officials said that the North Korean economy was showing tentative signs of life after more than four years of food shortages but that a generation of children would never recover from
United Nations officials said that the North Korean economy was showing tentative signs of life after more than four years of food shortages but that a generation of children would never recover from
Less than a year after doomsayers painted Asia and the Pacific as the world's biggest millennium-bug black spot, officials throughout the region are proclaiming that their banks, businesses,
Sub-Saharan Africa is home to two-thirds of the world's 33.4 million people living with AIDS, and the mostly agrarian economies are doubly cursed. Nowhere are people are more dependent on strong
Even though new drug therapies continue to cut AIDS death rates in wealthy countries like the United States, the news from the AIDS front is chilling. In the developing world, the situation is
The apparent loss of an entire generation of U.S. mission to Mars has triggered a total reassessment of NASA's approach to interplanetary exploration. "The whole program is on the table for
A French court ruled that a ground breaking lawsuit brought against a French cigarette company by the family of a three-pack-a-day smoker who died of cancer was admissible. In the first trial of its
the UN : When Amoco started drilling for oil in Angola a few years ago, Exxon and Chevron had already landed some of the richest oil fields and could easily outbid their smaller rivals for others.
An oil spill from a tanker that split in two over the weekend hugged France's Atlantic Coast for a second day, raising fears of a "black tide" sweeping the beaches and oyster beds of western
The collapse of trade talks in Seattle was not, as one unelected protest organizer claimed, a glorious triumph of democracy. It was not, as various labour spokesmen suggested, a victory for working
Ten weeks after an 18-year old Arizona man died in a gene therapy experiment at the University of Pennsylvania, scientists there have determined that the treatment he received - an infusion of