Taiwan typhoon's toll put at 81
The death toll from the typhoon that swept Taiwan this week rose to 81 as the capital was plunged into chaos amid power and water outages. Nineteen other people were listed as missing after the storm
International Herald Tribune (Bangkok)
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Chinese plastics factory is sued
More than 400 elementary school children rushed to a hospital after a chemical leak in April are suing a plastics factory in southeastern China, state news reports said. The trial began with an open
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At least 12 die in blast at a factory in France
A huge explosion, apparently an accident, destroyed a chemical fertilizer plant in Toulouse (France), killing at least 12 people and injuring 180. Windows were shattered for kilometers around and
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Brazil may ease Amazon rules
A joint commission of the Brazilian Congress has approved a measure that would more than double the amount of the Amazon jungle that ranchers, loggers and miners would be permitted to raze. The
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Boy or girl? guessing game ends
In a letter that has stunned many leading American fertility specialists, the acting head of their professional society's ethics committee says it is sometimes acceptable for couples to choose the
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Beef scare hits Japan as Mad Cow fears rise
A major beef scare has swept Japan after British scientists confirmed a case of mad cow disease in a Tokyo suburb, the first case of the disease outside Europe.
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French beef ban ruled illegal
A French ban on the importing of British beef because of mad-cow disease fears is illegal, according to a preliminary ruling from the European court of Justice. The court's advocate-general said
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Hong Kong bans Japanese beef
Hong Kong authorities have banned the import of Japanese beef after the discovery last week of mad cow disease in Japan, a spokesman for the Food and Environment Hygiene Department said. The
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Taiwan braces for another typhoon as it clears damage
Workers piled sandbags around riverbanks and buildings as Taiwan braced for another typhoon only a week after a storm killed almost 100 people and dumped record amounts of rain. The Central Weather
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Inner Mongolia battered by nature's blows
Three years of calamities including drought, an earthquake, a killer blizzard, a plague of locusts that ate the grasslands clean and a flurry of blinding dust storms, the sheep and cattle herders of