US health officials said none of Chiron Coirp.'s flu vaccine is safe for use, after a US inspection of the biotechnology comapny's troubled plant inLiverpool, England, uncovered manufaturing defects

Airlines are discovering that green policies designed to cut pollution and boost efficiency that they once considered bothersome can actually lift profits. With oil prices above $50 a barrel, airline

General Electric Co. is negotiating with several electricity companies to build new "clean coal' power plants, as the leader in making natural-gas-fired turbines for power plats moves to create a

China is considering an overhaul of its controversial family-planning policy, worried that the strict limits on family size are proving counterproductive and could generate social unrest as well as

The U.S. is joining seven other nations to increase efforts to capture methane-gas emissions from industrial and agricultural sources as fuel and to reduce pollution contributing to global warming.

The U.S. users spy satellite to snoop on terrorists. Europe is using them to spy on its farmers. In a grassy field northwest of Milan, Peter Spruyt squints up at the sky, switches on a hand-held

Addressing a major funding gap, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation said it will give a $50 million grant to the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria. Separately, doctors at the XV

Some thing in life you can count on, alas. One is that when world leaders gather to talk about AIDS, Public Enemy Number One is the U.S. So it goes in Bangkok this week at the International AIDS

The U.S. Agriculture Department, in some good news for consumers, raised its forecast of the size of a potentially record large U.S. corn harvest and signaled that the surge in milk prices is

Serious shortage of AIDS doctors, nurses and health-care workers in the developing world are hampering the push to distribute antiviral drugs in poor countries shit hard by the epidemic. A study by