Scientists have made a breakthrough in their search for a drug for neurodegenerative diseases.
After two and a half days of round-the-clock discussions at the end of COP17, global leaders have finally agreed on a course to fight climate change.
On June 5 1981 epidemiologists reported a baffling event: five young gay men in Los Angeles, all previously healthy, had fallen ill with pneumonia.
World farm monitors on Wednesday declared that a cattle-killing virus that has been a curse through the ages has been wiped out.
For more than half a century, computers have been obeying "Moore’s Law," a principle named after Gordon Moore, the co-founder of chip maker Intel.
The ICC must probe allegations that Robert Mugabe’s youth militia launched a campaign of rape during 2008 elections, a campaign group has said.
A breakthrough test of a vaginal gel to protect women against HIV unleashed a wave of optimism at the world Aids conference on Tuesday.
The World Cup’s message is this: football is a vehicle of harmony, uniting nations under the banner of sport. What if the truth were not so pretty?.
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/ 28 December 2009
The first decade of the 21st century dawned with a global strategy to fight climate change but ended in chaos with the UN system in tatters.
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/ 19 December 2009
A UN conference has rammed through a battle plan against climate change by US President Barack Obama and other top leaders, sidelining smaller states.