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  Haiti’s cholera part of old pandemic – U.S. CDC

  The cholera epidemic that has killed 1,110 people and sickened thousands more in Haiti is part of a 49-year-old global pandemic and was likely brought to the Caribbean country by a single infected per...

  Article - November 19, 2010

• Web tool aims to prevent day-after Facebook regrets

  A Web security company is offering a free tool designed to prevent users of social networks from posting embarrassing drunken messages online. On the premise that "Nothing good happens after 1:00 a...

  Article - November 13, 2010

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  Too much texting is linked to other problems

  A new study suggests that the high school students who spend the most time texting or on social network sites (or both) are at risk for a host of worrisome behaviors, including smoking, risky sex, dep...

  Article - November 12, 2010

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  Time for Governments to use financial imagination on climate

  This weeks United Nations report on how to raise $100 billion a year to tackle climate change in poor countries relies too heavily on hopes that the market will help the world's poorest people cope wi...

  Article - November 6, 2010

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  Study reveals psychological toll of Middle East conflict on children

  A recent study by the University of Michigan shows that children are being psychologically damaged by their exposure to the Palestinian-Israeli conflict. This three-year study involved 1,500 Arab and ...

  Article - November 5, 2010

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  Clinton calls for climate action to protect islands

  Bare-chested dancers beating drums greeted U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on Wednesday as she visited Papua New Guinea (PNG) to highlight the need to protect the Pacific island nation from cl...

  Article - November 4, 2010

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  Teenager recovery from depression often fleeting

  Most depressed adolescents and teenagers who get treatment with drugs, therapy or both will get some relief, but nearly half will relapse within five years, U.S. researchers say. And females are by...

  Article - November 3, 2010

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  Saudi Arabia at risk from rare volcanic earthquakes

  Western regions of Saudi Arabia may be at risk from an unusual type of earthquake caused by failed volcanic eruptions, according to a team of Saudi and US scientists. They analysed some of the thou...

  Article - November 2, 2010

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  Difficult conditions for children in ‘volcano camps’

  Dewi is one of the thousands of children taking shelter in camps as Indonesia's Mount Merapi volcano continues to erupt. With an estimated 47,000 displaced by the volcano including some 7,000 child...

  Article - November 2, 2010

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  Tanzanian villages struggling with shifting weather, prolonged drought

  Emerging from his hut to yet another day of cloudless skies and scorching sun, Pusindawa Ndaskoi watches as hawks circle and feed on the carcasses of dead cattle scattered on the dusty ground. "We'...

  Article - November 2, 2010