Blood safety is becoming an important factor in combating the global spread of AIDS. The World Health Organization estimates that from 5 to 10 percent of transmissions of HIV, the virus that causes

The sharp rise in oil prices over the last few months have given energy issues new and unexpected prominence in the American presidential campaign. But what ought to be a serious debate has been

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The worst drought in a half-century, stretching from Syria to Mongolia, is threatening half of Tajikistan's population of 6 million with famine this fall. Well have gone dry, have rivers have ceased

Under intense legal pressure from animal rights activists, the U.S. Department of Agriculture has reluctantly agreed to expand its regulation of research animals to include mice, rats and

A Panama-registered tanker ran aground between Indonesia and Singapore at dawn, spilling at least 7,000 metric tons of crude oil into the sea, officials

For years, the woman heard the moaning of animals. Finally, last month she could not stand it any more. She called a newspaper to report that a nearby restaurant was keeping three black bears in tiny

The right bug and an unlucky series of coincidences : If the indestructible cockroach is the Sherman tank of the insect kingdom, the fragile mosquito is its DC-7, a pioneer in linking the world by

The stormy battle over globalization that brought protests to the streets of Seattle and Washington moves to heart of the world's only truly global organization : the United Nations. An

At the start of Bombay's annual Ganesh Festival tens of thousands of brightly painted statues of the deity were carried through the streets. But environmentalists do not like the way the event