The whaling canoes are stored in a wooden shed, idle for the past six years. They were last used when the Makah Indians were allowed to take their harpoons and a .50-caliber rifle and set out on

Two weeks of negotiations at a United Nations conference on climate change ended over the weekend with a weak pledge to start limited, informal talks on ways to slow down global warming, after the

The U.S. Congress must soon decide on the details of a $3 billion cut in agricultural spending across the next five years. In the kind of selflessness that normally characerizes special-interest

A day after resting their cases, lawyers for both sides in the first Vioxx-related personal injury lawsuit were to present their closing arguments on Wednesday after more than foru weeks of

The director of New Zealand's Antarctic science station said that it was too early to panic over a large iceberg blocking his base's access to the sea and threatening penguins. Some Antarctic

The World Trade Organisation is not yet global. Twenty-five countries are currently lining up to join, some of them among the world's poorest. First, however, they are being put through a

Despite some changes, China's one-child family planning program remains a source of coercion, forced abortions infanticide and perilously imbalanced boy-girl ratios, State Department officials said.

A Pakistani woman has died of typhoid fever and 79 other people have contracted the infectious disease in Jordan since October, the government said. The outbreak occurred in a Jordan Valley region

The two large protected grizzly bear populations that remain in the United States, oen in and around Glacier National Park and the other around Yellostone, were hit hard this year by an unusually

Exxon Mobil, the operator of a proposed $3 billion natural gas pipeline from Papua New Guinea to Australia, said that WMC Resources had increased the maximum amount of fuel it provisionally agreed to