Strong earthquake kills 11 in Paupa province
At least 11 peoplr were killed and 65 injured when a stronger earthquake shook Papua Province in Indonesia, collapsing building and starting fires, officials said. After shocks rattled the coastal
International Herald Tribune (Bangkok)
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Ducking the truth about Europe's GMO policy
The only surprising thing about the recent World Bank report is that otherwise reserved scholars minced no words in calling the European Commission's obsession with avoiding genetically modified
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Patients plead to keep drug for Parkinson's
With his condition deteriorating from Parkinson's disease last year, Steve Kaufman gave up making improvement sot his home in Algonquin, Illinois. Earlier this year, after taking an experimental drug
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India sets infrastructure target
India's government plans to spend at least $17 billion to upgrade roads, airports and ports by 2010, in an effort to make it easier for Ford motor and other exporters to do business in Asia's
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Girl is first to survive rabies without vaccine
An American teenager is the first human ever known to survive rabies without vaccination, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has confirmed, after the girl received a desperate and
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Climate shift worries Arctic nations
The United States and the seven other countries with Arctic territory have expressed concern about profound changes in the Arctic climate and said they would consider new scientific findings
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Storms toll rises to 79 in Philippines
The death toll from a weekend typhoon and another storm in the Phillippines has risen to 79 people and at least 86 others are missing, a disaster agency said. Nearly 11000 houses were destroyed and
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Obesity death study is flawed, U.S. admits
A widely reported U.S. government study that said obesity ws about to overtake smoking as leading cause of death in the United States contained statistical errors and may have overstated the problem,
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Backup tests cut mad cow worry in U.S.
A cow that tested positive last week on preliminary tests for mad coe disease has tested negative on the follow-up, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture. The government's National
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Another free-trade battle
Dogfights in the U.S. Congress over free-trade pacts usually pop up not long after presidential elections. Back in 1993, President Bill Clinton doled out promises to everybody and his mother to get