Volcano is rumbling
Several thousand inhabitants of a remote Papua New Guinea island have been placed on evacuation alert after a volcano began rumbling and spewing ash, emergency officials said. No one has been hurt in
International Herald Tribune (Bangkok)
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Reducing greenhouse gases
The European Union is almost halfway to achieving the reductions in greenhouse gas emissions it agreed to under the Kyoto Protocol and has pledged to reduce its
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Duty-free shops defend tobacco sales
Duty-free retailers vowed to fight the passage of a World Health Organisation convention that would keep tax-free tobacco out of their shops, warning it would deal a death blow to the industry.
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Paralysis in health care
Early this year Congress and the White House entertained dreams of passing all kinds of health care legislation. President Bush and Senator Edward Kennedy were supposedly working on a patients "bill
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Major drug patent case nears conclusion in U.S.
In the next few days, a federal judge in New York is expected to rule on the biggest drug patent case in history, one with enormous significance for both consumers and drug manufacturers. The case
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Serono scraps plans for new arthritis drug
Serono SA , Europe's largest biotechnology company, said Tuesday that it had stopped developing an experimental drug for rheumatoid arthritis after trials suggested that it was no better than
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Substitute for tobacco is criticised
Some time in June, drugstores and convenience stores around the United States could begin carrying bottles of Nico water, nicotine laced water that is the latest entry in a long line of products
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UN closer to plan on development
Delegates to a UN meeting in Indonesia inched closer Friday to agreeing on a global development plan that aims to revive the spirit of the landmark Earth Summit meeting in rio de Janeiro 10 years
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Emission trading comes under fire
For once, Washington has secured a bargain. The 1990 amendments to the Clean Air Act set up a market based system in hopes of reducing pollution from power plants more efficiently than regulation
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South Africa mining overhaul
After more than a year of painstaking revision and top level deliberation, the South African government is about to alter the balance of power in the country's mining industry. Parliament will begin