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Poultry diseases broke out in an epidemic form in the district. At least 20,000 poultry birds have caught diseases in the district during the last two months. The people of the remote villages could

World Trade Organisation members yesterday formally endorsed WTO panel and appeals body rulings against the European Union's ban on hormone-treated beef which was found not to be based on scientific

Militant farmers yesterday blocked Greece's main north-south highway with tractors in protest against the Socialist government's refusal to make concessions in a long-running dispute over

A new environment crime law which will make it easier to protect natural resources in Brazil, such as the Amazon rainforest, has been signed by Fernado Henrique Cardoso, Brazil's president. The law,

Researchers are on the point of developing drugs to help people whose lives are blighted by "neuropathic" pain, the intense, long-lasting and almost untreatable pain caused by damaged nerves, the

Researchers at the University of the West of England, Bristol, predict that in the next two years a new species will emerge to prey on local populations of slugs. The predator will be nocturnal and

The SAR may have just seen its coldest day of the winter so far,but climatologists insist HongKong is getting warmer.The Hong Kong Observatory said temperatures in urban areas had risen by one degree

With detailed radar maps as their guide, archeologists have explored the jungle beyond the ancient ruins of Angkor in Cambodia and uncovered remnants of previously unknown temples and new evidence of

The recent spate of forest fire in the vicinity of Thimphu town has destroyed hundreds of acres of forests, according to the Forestry division. The fires first began at Sangayang, near the Bhutan

The US on Friday rejected an Indian proposal to set June 16 next year as the deadline for Delhi to implement a World Trade Organisation (WTO) ruling on its patent protection laws.Indian officials