BEIJING  - The World Health Organisation said Monday there is no evidence China’s new H7N9 strain of bird flu is spreading between humans, as the death toll rose to seven and airline and tourism shares slumped.China said just over a week ago that H7N9 avian influenza had been found in ...

Not all fat cats are captains of industry. Some are just pudgy ones.But one British charity is taking a weight-and-see approach to pet obesity by holding a contest for some of the country’s most overweight animals.The Pet Fit Club, which is being organized by the People’s Dispensary for ...

HUMANS hunted Australia’s giant vertebrates to extinction about 40,000 years ago, the latest research published in Science has concluded.The cause of the widespread extinction has provoked much debate, with climate change being one theory. However, scientists studied dung samples from 130,000 ...

UNITED NATIONS Enforced disappearances continue to be one of the worst human rights violations, a UN expert said Friday, marking the 30th anniversary of the creation of a body to look into the scourge. While many people think this is a practice of the past, it has become a global problem affecting ...

WASHINGTON (AFP) - Going off to war has always meant risking your life, but a wave of robotic weaponry may be changing that centuries-old truth. The pilots who fly US armed drones over Afghanistan, Iraq and Pakistan sit with a joystick thousands of kilometres away, able to pull the trigger without ...

WASHINGTON (AFP) - Malaria, which affects some 500 million people a year worldwide, was first transmitted to humans by chimpanzees, according to a US study out on Monday. The origins of mosquito-carried malaria has long been unclear, and has lead scientists to come up with several inconclusive ...

IN a study released online on July 22 in the journal Proceedings of the Royal Society: Biological Sciences, researchers at Arizona State University and Princeton University show that ants can accomplish a task more rationally than our - multimodal, egg-headed, tool-using, bipedal, opposing-thumbed ...

ISLAMABAD - Harmful chemicals are posing a serious threat to human survival thus endangering global environment, said Ijaz Ahmad Qureshi, Secretary Ministry of Environment here on Friday. He was presiding over the inauguration ceremony of the national consultative workshop on 'Obligation and ...