European Union countries will be able to choose how to allocate billions of Ecus of Brussels aid to farmers for the first time under controversial plans for reforming the Common Agricultural

Europe faces "devastating" future and should overhaul its strategy for containing them, the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) warned. The agency called for a cut in herd

An independent congressional advisory panel and leading public health groups yesterday said they would not support any legislative settlement with tobacco companies that grants the industry immunity

Sunscreens do not prevent every type of skin cancer and they may even take some blame for the rising incidence of melanoma, a particularly serious form of skin cancer, the American Association for

The plight of the Jivi reflects the desperate battle of the natives in Venezuela's Amazon region to defend their lands and achieve self-determination. Centuries after the first settlers arrived in

Australia's plan to privatise meat inspection services has met fresh opposition from the European Union, following US objections to the plan earlier this month. EU officials in Canberra said

Gold mines in northen Greece brought wealth to the ancient Macedonian kingdom of Alexander the Great. But plans by Canada's TVX Gold to introduce modern mining and extraction processes to the

The introduction of a common European currency as the world's computer programmers are trying to defuse the millennium bomb in 2000 ranks as "one of the worst public policy decisions in history",

Computers can control Intensive care Unit ventilators more successfully than doctors, an expert in computerised medicine has told the American Association for the Advancement of Science. A computer

European agriculture ministers will be told today that an agreement is close with the US on a "veterinary equivalency" deal aimed at easing EU-US trade friction over meat. A final deal could be

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