An 18-year-old Arizona man with a rare metabolic disease has died while taking part in a gene therapy experiment, becoming the first person to die in a growing field of research that seeks to cure

At least 25 people were killed in Southern Japan on Friday by a typhoon with winds of up to 144 kilometers per hour. The National Police Agency said 12 people died when high waves overwhelmed a

Residents of Japan's main southwestern island, Kyushu, braced themselves Thursday for an approaching typhoon designated Bart. The typhoon hit Okinawa, 1,600 kilometers (1,000 miles) southwest of

NASA has lost contact with the Mars Climate Orbiter, a space probe billed as the first inter-planetary weather satellite, in what could be a serious, but not crippling, blow to efforts to determine

The Justice Department filed a mammoth civil lawsuit Wednesday against the major tobacco companies, alleging that cigarette smoking cossts the federal governemnt billions of dollars annually in

Alarmed by what the Clinton administration views as a growing threat of biological terrorism to the country's food supply, the U.S. Agriculture Department is seeking money to turn the Plum Island

Despite the East Timor crisis and political uncertainty in Indonesia, Singapore is expected to sign a new long-term cotnract Wednesday for a supply of Indonesian natural gas estimated to be worth $7

Two American spacecraft are approaching Mars, the second wave of economy-class robotic orbiting and landing parties in an ambitious revival of exploration of the red

The government of Prime Minsiter Tony Blair announced Tuesday its biggest commitment to combating poverty, saying it aimed to lift more than 1 million Britons out of poverty by 2002 and eliminate

The mass escape from Hurricane Floyd was further evidence of how well America has learned to anticipate potential disaster. Americans get timely warnings and instructions on how to board up windows