An authoritative scientific report commissioned by the United Nations has found that the 1986 accident at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in rural Ukraine - the worst nuclear accident in history -

Volkswagen announced on Thursday that it would develop, assemble and sell a gasoline-electric hybrid minivan in China in cooperation with Shanghai Automotive Industry Corp., a move that underlines

Hoping to become a major supplier of flu shots to the United States, GlaxoSmithKline has said that it will pay $1.4 billion to acquire ID Biomedical, a Canadian vaccine maker. The deal, announced

The Bush administration has dropped any pretense of providing serious long-term protection for endangered salmon species in the Pacific North-west. The administration proposed to roll back

When U.S. drug official suspected in 1992 that a popular allergy pill might cause heart problems, they turned to their own scientists. Their trial confirmed the danger, and the drug was pulled from

About 1.2 million of Niger's 3.6 million rural farmers and herders are described as "extremely vulnerable" to food shortages and in need of food aid, according to an assessment of Niger's crisis

The World Health Organization has urged China to conduct more tests to clarify perplexing aspects of the largest outbreak in humans of a bacterial pig disease, including why the death rate among

Toyota Motor will develop 10 hybrid electric model cars for sale worldwide by early in the next decade, the company's top North American executive has said. The company expects that a quarter of its

Uganda became Africa's leader in fighting AIDS by waging an all-fronts war. In 1991, 15 percent of Uganda's adults were infected with the virus. Ten years later the figure was 5 percent. Ugandan

Twenty years ago this week, an explosion at a Union Carbide chemical factory sent 27 tons of poisonous methyl isocynate wafting over the slumbering residents of Bhopal, India. The after math was