To hundreds of Filipino women every year, Quiapo Church provides a solution - some say another kind of miracle - to a specific predicament: unwanted pregnancy. Every day, pregnant women go to this

Unsettled by a series of dry winters in this normally wet city, Mayor Greg Nickels has begun a nationwide effort to do something the Bush administration will not: carry out the Kyoto Protocol on

The World Trade Organization said Friday that it was nominating the former European Union trade commissioner, Pascal Lamy, as its next director general, putting him in the driver's seat to revive

They live in the forests and limestone outcrops of Laos. With long whiskers, stubby legs and a long, furry tail, they are rodents but unlike any seen before by wildlife scientists. They are

General Motors and Toyota Motor plan to set up a venture in the United States to build fuel-cell systems and engines to run vehicles without using gasoline, three executives from the two companies

In Malawi and in a number of nearby nations including Zambia and Kenya, a husband's funeral has long concluded with a final ritual: Sex between the widow and one of her husband's relatives, to break

Tens of thousands of adult salmon that were expected to swim up the Columbia River this spring are missing, and their mysterious absence has led state and tribal officials to shut down the commercial

More than 40 new cases of polio have been confirmed in Yemen, the World Health Organization said, more new cases than in any other nation. "It's a much bigger outbreak than we originally thought, and

Trillions of dollars in investment clout gathered under the United Nations roof to talk about climate change - and money. "It's all about our money," said Denise Nappier. Nappier, the Connecticut

Farmers in poor nations should rejoice as trade ministers in rich countries get ready to apply a lesson they must have learned as nine-year-olds: working out percentages. The European Union, the