The World Trade Organisation created to investigate illegal subsidies allegedly paid by the EU and U.S. to rival airplane makers Airbus and Boeing Co., trade officials said. The WTO's

Prosecutors field charges against Newmont Mining Corp. and its top U.S. executive in Indonesia for allegedly polluting a bay with toxic waste. "It has been submitted to the court', north Sulawesi

A perennial problem in democracies is the reluctance of permanent bureaucracies to accept that elected officials should set policy. This has been famously satirized in TV shows such as Britain's

Almost four years after anthrax attacks hit the U.S. a $5.6 billion federal program designed to produce new vaccines and drugs to counter biological threats is struggling, leaving the nation behind

Biodiesel is made from vegetable oils or animal fats

World leaders faced pressure from the U.S. to scale back goals for relieving African poverty and combating AIDS globally, but British Prime Minister Tony Blair said he planned to keep campaigning for

As highly lethal avian influenza circulates among poultry in East Asia, posing the prospect of a world-wide human pandemic, most of the countries now affected have virtually no stocks of he medicine

Disputes over intellectual property rights are one of the major sources of tradetensions between the U.S. and China. While issues such as pirated DVDs and fashion goods tend to receive most of the

Health, Food , and animal expert plan to hammer out a strategy this week to ensure that the bird flu virus doesn't spread form humans to humans, a possibility that has raised fears of an influenza

The World Health Organisation acknowledged that it is to stem the death toll of the disease. In a report released, the United Nations health agency said about one million people in poorer countries