Iceland has broken a global moratorium on commercial whaling, killing an endangered fin whale for the first time since the 1980s, local media reported. Fisheries Minister Einar Kristinn Gudfinnsson

Australia will begin a major drive to tackle global warming, Prime Minister John Howard said Monday, as the country battles its worst drought in more than a century. The initiative was announced as

A 67-year-old Indonesian woman died of bird flu late Sunday, the second death in as many days, taking the country's human death toll from the disease of 54, Health Ministry and hospital officials

The government on Monday announced a multimillion-dollar relief package for farmers facing a crippling drought that is threatening the country's economic growth. Prime Minister John Howard said

A strong earthquake rippled through the Hawaiian Islands, shaking residents and tourists from their sleep, knocking out electrical power to several areas and triggering a landslide that rained

A team of neuroscientists has reported that they have restored some movement and speech to a severely brain-damaged man by stimulating his brain with pulses of electric current. The 38-year-old man,

If a patient has aches, pains and fever and has just been to India or an Indian Ocean resort, doctors are being urged to check for a viral disease that even they may have never heard of chikungunya.

Hundreds of people prayed for rain in an Indonesian province hit hard by forest fires as environment ministers prepared to gather in Singapore to discuss ways to tackle the haze covering the region.

An Indonesian woman being treated in the hospital has tested positive for the fatal strain of bird flu, a health official said. Indonesia has become one of the front lines in the battle against the

Faced with air pollution levels that on some days force the elderly and the asthmatic to stay indoors and have some foreigners contemplating a move to cleaner climes, the government of this financial