Mad cow disease worry
New Zealand sought to assure its people and its export markets on Friday that it did have any cases of mad cow disease, which if confirmed could deal a major blow to the country's
International Herald Tribune (Bangkok)
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Cases of West Nile virus triple in the U.S. to 164
The number of West Nile virus cases in the United States has tripled, to at least 164, since las week and will probably break the record for last year, a federal health official has
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Hormone aid tied to breast cancer death
A study of one million british women has found a higher death rate from breast cancer among those who took combination hormone therapy than those who did not use it or took estrogen alone.The study
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Sipping and smoking in Ireland
On January 1, Ireland is expected to become the first European country to ban smoking in pubs. The move is so bold and contentious in a country so devoted to pub culture that few in Europe, and even
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Storms in Europe fail to stop deadly heat
Flash storms hit parts of northern Europe on Monday but provided little relief from the punishing heat wave that has blanketed the Continent for more than a week with no signs of letting up. Rain
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5th person in Colorado dies of West Nile virus
A fifth person has died from the West Nile virus in Colorado, the state hardest hit by the disease this
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Bush picks new chief of enviornment agency
President George W. Bush has nominated Governor Michael Leavitt, the three-term republican governor of utah, as the new administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, tapping a Westerner and
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Fire shuts National Park
One week after it reopened, the west entrance to Glacier National Park was closed again to visitors because of a spreading wildfire. Another round of evacuations was ordered. High winds and hot
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Gas explosion kills 33 coal miners in north
A gas explosion that ripped through a coal mine in northern China killed at least 33 miners and left nine missing, the official Xinhua news agency reported
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Fires displace villagers
Forest fies in the mountains of southern Portugal raged out of control Tuesday, as more villagers were evacuated. Hundreds of people have already been evacuated from homes threatened by fast-moving