Malaysia resorts to mass slaughter in a struggle to contain an outbreak of a deadly virus that is plaguing its pigs, worrying its people and threatening its tourism and export industries : a

Delegates from more than 170 countries have suspended negotiations on new proposals to curb global population without tackling the key issue of money - and still divided over sex education and

A popular technique to help infertile men become fathers, injecting individual sperm into individual eggs, alters the fertilization process, researchers have found. They said there was no evidence so

A strain of last year's deadly "bird flu" is back, but this time authorities say they're confident there won't be another round of human and animal casualties. Mainland Chinese farmers might take a

Malaysian health officials said on Sunday they hope to finish slaughtering some 830,000 pigs within two weeks in a battle to curb a viral epidemic that has killed 85 people. More than 430,000 pigs

Thailand is stepping up vaccinations and sterilisation of millions of dogs to achieve a zero death rate from rabies by 2000, a newspaper said on

Five infants have died, 50 are in hospitals; child export racket tells story of not just greed but of a people caught in poverty

At least 32 people have died of epidemic measles in various villages in the Dailekh district, 370-km north-west of Kathmandu in the past one week, state radio was quoted as saying on

The spread of Monkey fever in Puttur and Sullia taluk are causing concern especially to the people living in forest areas, as already two deaths have been reported from Balapa village near

Dutch health authorities, still reling from the world's worst outbreak of Legionnaries' disease, said they had found bacteria causing the potentially fatal illness at a thermal spa in a southern