Possible 10th planet is found beyond Pluto
Add a 10th planet to the solar system - or possibly subtract one. Astronomers announced that they had found a lump of rock and ice that is larger than Pluto and the farthest known object in the solar
International Herald Tribune (Bangkok)
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Vaccine arrives for pig disease
The first batch of vaccine for treating a mysterious pig-borne disease that has killed at least 34 people in China was flown Sunday to the southwestern province of Sichuan, state media said. About
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New African food crisis raises a question of why
The images of victims of a food crisis in the vast, landlocked west African country of Niger, captured by a BBC television correspondent and shown around the world, look like something the world has
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Behind the famine footage
Once again, images of emaciated African children are showing up on television screens. The recurring drought in the Sahel, that parched strip across Africa that separates the Sahara from the rain
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Cleaning up Bangladesh's deadly wells
Since tube wells became popular as a source of drinking water in Bangladesh in the 1970s, tens of millions of people have been slowly poisoned by arsenic. Exposure to arsenic from the contaminated
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Choices in space
The U.S. space program fared remarkably well in the huge appropriations bill just approved by Congress. The National Aeronautics and Space Administration got a hefty $16.2 billion budget for fiscal
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WHO aide warns of avian flu pandemic
A global pandemic of avian influenza is
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Voters and the environment
Michael Leavitt, who runs the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, declared recently that American voters on election Day has delivered a clear mandate for Presidential policies, a
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Accord nears on Asian trade zone
Southeast Asian and Chinese officials put the final touches on agreements for next week's regional summit meeting to create a free trade area covering nearly two billion people by 2010. The
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Tiger population dwindles 95% over a century
The world's wild tiger population has plummeted by 95 percent from the start of the 20th century to as few as 5000 now and is further threatened by the lucrative trade in their skins, officials said