Mazda Motor Corp. will participate in a new alliance with Ford Motor Co. of the U.S., Germany's Diamler-Benz Ag and Ballard Power Systems Inc. to develop fuel cell technology for

Across the U.S. health maintenance organizations are starting to abandon their poorest patients. Having embraced Medicaid patients in the early 1990s after long shunning them, some major HMOs are

Russia's acting nuclear energy minister has asked the U.S. government to return to the original bilateral deal under which Russia sold uranium from dismantled nuclear warheads to the U.S. In 1993,

Technicians at the world's largest nuclear plant shut down a reactor after a pump controlling power generation stopped working. There was no danger of a radiation leak from the trouble, a spokeman

Bewitched by soaring rice prices, mango farmers have turned parts of Suphan Buri province into a mango graveyard. By switching to what they considered a more profitable crop, Suphan Buri farmers have

The U.S. Justice Department is investigating whether two U.S. electronics companies illegally aided China's ballistic missile program. The inquiry is focussed on Loral Space & Communications Ltd., of

Environment ministers of the world's top eight industrialized nations announced new efforts to curb smuggling of hazardous waste, endangered species and substances that damage the Earth's ozone

Philippines President Fidel Ramos halted the operations of small scale miners after they were found to be using mercury extensively in refining gold. Officials have said that high levels of mercury

Dieters got some sweet news as the U.S. government approved the first new artificial sweetner in 10 years. The sweetner, called sucralose, is made by a unit of Johnson & Johnson and could become a

Rolls-Royce PLC said it has signed an agreement with Aviation Industries of China that will see three Chinese universities and research institutions working on a new phase of joint research in