The basic cause of hair growth has been identified by scientists in the United States. The research showed that a subtle interaction between two signalling molecules causes hair follicles to sprout.
A former employee of Gold Fields Ltd., South Africa’s second largest gold producer, filed a lawsuit in a US court claiming the company enslaved black workers and exposed them to dangerous mine conditions and toxic substances.
Union leaders at American Airlines are furious after learning of lucrative executive pay deals that were being struck as workers agreed to ,8-billion in pay cuts and concessions.
The United States forces possess confirmed samples of Iraqi President Saddam Hussein’s DNA with which they can determine whether he has been killed or is still at large, according to the coalition commander, General Tommy Franks.
America Online has filed five federal lawsuits targeting spammers it accuses of sending some 1-billion junk e-mail messages promoting mortgages, steroids and pornography to its subscribers.
A landmark case that began when Texas police broke into a gay man’s apartment in 1998 goes before the US Supreme Court next week, seeking the repeal of state laws against sodomy and oral sex.
Watching violence on television can encourage a child to act more aggressively even 15 years later, according to one of the few TV violence studies to follow children into adulthood.
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/ 6 February 2003
There was a reverent hush in the UN Security Council chamber as members gathered to hear the weapons inspectors’ reports on Iraq. Outside, protesters waved placards insisting ”No blood for oil”. Inside there was a more tempered atmosphere.
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/ 3 February 2003
Chess legend Garry Kasparov and supercomputer Deep Junior played to a draw on Sunday, leaving their Man vs. Machine series tied 2-2 after four games.
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/ 26 January 2003
The most serious attack on the internet in more than a year stranded millions of online and phone users and knocked out bank machines across the United States on Saturday, in what security experts feared was just a prelude to a bigger cyber-assault.
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/ 22 January 2003
A study of syphilis among homosexual men in New York City has found high rates of HIV infection, unprotected sex and recreational drug use.
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/ 22 January 2003
Unless decisions are taken to fund humanitarian programmes, 12-million — or 20% — of southern Africa’s 60-million people may die prematurely of Aids, United Nations agencies said on Tuesday.
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/ 21 January 2003
You may have recently discovered priceless photographs of your childhood, yellowing but still tangible. Your grandkids probably won’t fare as well with your digital photos.
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/ 17 January 2003
Four men serving life sentences for conspiring to bomb two US embassies in Africa are seeking a new trial because, their lawyer alleges, jurors acted improperly and saw them shackled during their 2001 trial.
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/ 23 December 2002
It won’t be business as usual on Wall Street, officials at the biggest U.S. brokerage firms vow. Hoping to restore investors’ shattered trust, 10 firms – including Citigroup, Goldman Sachs and Credit Suisse First Boston – said on Friday they would change business practices and pay ,44 billion to settle allegations they misled investors by hyping certain stocks.
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/ 17 December 2002
Armed groups involved in conflict in countries from the Philippines and Afghanistan to the Congo have been using youths under 18 as soldiers despite international calls to stop the practice, the United Nations said on Monday.
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/ 16 December 2002
President George Bush has given the CIA permission to kill about two dozen top terrorism suspects around the world whom it believes are plotting to attack American interests.
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/ 22 October 2002
David Hilliard’s career as an enemy of the state is only a memory now. The former chief of staff of the Black Panthers, the United States’s first armed black revolutionary group, does not disown the violence of the days when the FBI labelled him a threat to national security.
The United States Justice Department has opened an investigation into accounting practices at AOL Time Warner, delivering another blow to the world’s largest media company.
An analysis of communication from the World Trade Center after the twin towers were attacked on September 11 shows that most of those who died were on the upper floors of the towers.
In a stock market darkened by a troubled economy and accounting scandals, one investment still shines: gold shares.
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It’s an unlikely African art market: a Manhattan storage depot; but over 15 years dozens of art dealers have transformed these dusty steel cages into the home of a thriving daily art fair.
A better-than-expected report on the US labour market on Friday indicates the economy is poised for modest growth ahead and is likely to avoid a slide back into recession.
Fitch Ratings said the merger between South African Breweries and Phillip Morris Companies will have a minimal impact on the latter?s credit profile.
Ten days after the end of recovery operations at the site of the World Trade Center, construction workers are still finding the remains of September 11 victims in buildings adjacent to Ground Zero.
Children as young as 11 are being forcibly recruited into the Myanmar army, where they are coerced into human rights abuses including mass executions, an in-depth report showed on Tuesday.
Telecommunications giant WorldCom — faced with a mountain of debt and a growing scandal over accounting irregularities that caused the company’s stock to collapse — filed on Sunday for bankruptcy protection.
New York’s shattered financial district is hoping a combination of low tax, high art and corporate charity will throw a lifeline to local businesses.
Software giant Microsoft, hoping to attract holiday season shoppers, on Tuesday will debut a wireless keyboard and mouse combination, including a device that could link computers to multiple electronic devices without using cables.
Detectives on the trail of ,7-million in stolen Versace jewellery thought they had a break in the case when they got a warrant to search a Manhattan storage room – only to find a cheap, ratty green recliner.
CNN began airing excerpts on Sunday from a cache of videotapes acquired in Afghanistan that purport to show al-Qaida terror training, bomb-making and poison gas experiments on dogs.