India's new marketplace increasingly features a cacophony of consumer, environmental and other lobby groups whose interests often intermingle with local political agendas. Coca-Cola Co. and PepsiCo

The European Parliament advanced major new environmental-safety rules that could lead to the removal of some industrial chemicals from the European market. But industry won significant concessions

China should prepare for more bird-flu epidemics in poultry and possibly more human cases as cold weather sets in, the World Health Organization said, as the government announced two more outbreaks

David Lombard was driven out of Zimbabwe in 2002 by government-inspired hostility to whites. But the 40-year-old farmer didn't abandon Africa altogether. Along with several dozen other whites

Multinational companies in a variety of industries around the world are bracing for a possible outbreak of bird flu in humans. Drawing on their experiences with severe acute respiratory syndrome, or

In experiments with mice, two separate groups of scientists have found ways to derive embryonic stem cells without destroying viable embryos. If these techniques can be replicated in humans, they may

When doctors in Vietnam diagnosed a feverish 21-year-old man with avian influenza in February, it appeared to be an isolated case. But a week later, the man's 14-year-old sister developed similar

Major cigarette makers dodged the threat of a $280 billion penalty in a continuing civil racketeering lawsuit, after the Supreme Court rejected a government appeal to hear the penalty case. The

The European Union urged Greece and Croatia to carry out extensive tests "as soon as possible" on dead birds amid fears the deadly bird-flu virus, recently confirmed in Romania and Turkey, is

During the past several years, an especially virulent strain of avian flu has ravaged flocks of domesticated poultry in Asia and spread to migratory birds. Fortunately, only rarely has it been