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Officials of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration have agreed to share confidential information on their approvals of generic AIDS drugs with the World Health Organization, U.S. and WHO officials

Efforts to constrain human behavior to protect wildlife inevitably provoke debate, never more so than when the wildlife in question is delicious. Thus the uproar in America about a commercially

On and on they go, mammoth lawsuits in the United States against the biggest tobacco companies. Just two weeks ago, Philip Morris USA and five other cigarette makers were sued in a federal court in

This was the week that Europe's reluctant automobile industry bowed to the popularity of hybrid technology with a series of announcements by German carmakers that they would follow Toyota's lead

With three months left before a crucial deadline in global talks to reduce trade barriers, top negotiators for the United States and the European Union are still far apart on reducing their alborate

Judge John Roberts Jr. faced increasingly contentious questions from Democrats as he outlined his views on an array of legal issues, but repeatedly refused to address some of the most ideologically

Most Americans wouldn't know a Millennium Development Goal, a Monterrey Consensus, or a Doha round if all three jumped out and hit them in the head. But those phrases have life-or-death importance to

The Eskimos, or Inuit, about 155000 seal-hunting peoples scattered around the Arctic, plan to seek a ruling from the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights that the United States, by contributing

An estimated 13000 people would die and 800,000 homes could be destroyed if a severe earthquake struck directly underneath Japan's densely populated capital, a newspaper reported. The estimate was