China‘s food and drug regulator has ordered a ban on eight products manufactured by four mainland-based companies after they were found to be tainted with an industrial chemical.

CHINA will relax a decades-old ban on travel to Taiwan by individuals under a pilot scheme starting on June 28, the government says.

7.Juni 2011: The giggles started when the seventh journalist in a row said that his question was for Egypt’s water and irrigation minister, Mohamed Nasreddin Allam.

The non-Egyptian media gave him a bit of a hammering at last week’s talks in Addis Ababa for the nine countries that the Nile passes through.

North Sudan‘s army battled southern-aligned troops across the volatile Southern Kordofan border state for a seventh day on Saturday, adding to tensions ahead of talks between the northern and southern leaders.

Sudan‘s army denied on Sunday that any military aircraft were shot down in the border state of Southern Kordofan, where the northern military has been fighting armed groups for more than a week.

But the Pakistani Taliban, who have vowed to carry out attacks to avenge bin Laden‘s death, denied any role in the bombing and said they target only the government and military.

One of the world’s biggest lakes has more species of freshwater fish than the U.S. and

It‘s exactly three months since the devastating earthquake and tsunami hit Japan, causing widespread destruction and leaving some 15,000 people dead.

Our chemical safety system is an outdated mess — and for years, the failure of the government to act on formaldehyde was proof positive of that fact.

Formaldehyde is an important industrial chemical widely used to manufacture building products and in embalming fluid. It‘s also an extremely nasty substance that can cause irritation in the eyes and breathing problems in human beings at elevated levels (elevated being more than 0.1 parts per million). It has been shown to increase cancer risk in animals, and has long been suspected to cause cancer in human beings.

Beating drums and waving flowers, protesters in Tokyo and other major cities rallied against the use of nuclear power on Saturday, three months after a devastating tsunami set off a nuclear crisis.

Holzindustrie erlangt Zugriff auf Schutzgebiet im äußersten Osten Russlands

Der Software-Konzern Microsoft hat seinen Patentstreit mit der kleinen Firma i4i verloren. Das Unternehmen muss 290 Millionen Dollar zahlen.

Syrian army units say they have arrested a number of armed group leaders, blamed for violent acts in the northern area of Jisr al-Shughour.

According to the Syrian TV, a large number of terrorist group members were also killed and wounded in the ambush, the Syrian Arab News Agency SANA said on Saturday.

Iraqi security officials say the US military bases have come under rocket attacks, in the deadliest raid on the American forces since May 2009.

Hundreds of Kuwaitis take part in a rally demanding the resignation of Prime Minister Sheikh Nasser Al- Mohammed Al-Sabah, and political reforms in Kuwait City, Kuwait, June 10, 2011.

Korean college students, civic groups and opposition parties members participate a candlelight rally demanding South Korean President Lee Myung- bak fulfil his presidential election pledge to cut tuition fees by half, and provide solutions for youth unemployment at the Cheonggye plaza in Seoul, South Korea, June. 10, 2011

The position of Palin‘s husband, Todd, who worked for BP until 2009, was also a concern for the governor. In a jokey email sent to a colleague in September 2007 Palin asks: „If we, er, when we get a divorce, does that quell ‚conflict of interest accusations about BP?‘ “

The 1985 bombing of the Rainbow Warrior made the converted fishing trawler a campaigning icon. Now, in its 40th anniversary year, Greenpeace is launching its first purpose-built protest ship – one of the most technologically advanced vessels to set sail