The United Nations has predicted the world population will grow to 9.4 billions by 2050 and would stabilise at about 11 billions by 2200. The projection has been made by the Population division of
Thousands of Chinese chickens were trucked across the border to Hong Kong today , ending a sixweek ban inposed after an outbreak of bird flu that killed six
150 more killed : Another series of tremors jolted remote north-eastern Afghanistan on Saturday, killing another 150 people just days after an earthquake touched off massive landslides that left
The number of leprosy patients is alarmingly increasing as the Leprosy Eradication Programmes in the Sunamganj district is being hampered owing to lack of fund, absence of specialists and inadequate
A meeting of Municipal councillors, representatives of voluntary organisations, educational institutions, religious movements, public servants and social workers, held here has decided to intensify
The National Environmental Commission (NEC) through the Capacity 21 Project is taking environmental protection to the grassroots level. Extension agents from agriculture and forestry services will be
Cities in developing countries are influenced more and more by multinational corporations and international financial institutions because economic globalization has weakened national governments.
While new infections with HIV, continues to fall in neighbouring Uganda, the figures in Kenya just keep mounting up. The government estimates that around 8% of the country's adult population has HIV.
In 1959 a man living in Congo gave a blood sample to some American doctors who were studying human genetics. When they had finished with it, instead of dropping it in a rubbish bin the doctors put it
According to Thomas Perls, the director of the New England Centenarian study at Harvard University, dying at 100 is qualitively different from dying at 80. Dr Perls's research suggests that for the
