Archive for February 2005
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India Monday launched its first human clinical trials of a vaccine designed to prevent HIV-AIDS, federal health minister Anbumani Ramadoss said. "The trial is being conducted by a partnership between the government and International AIDS
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The al Qaeda wing in Iraq said a world anti-terror forum in Saudi Arabia was a campaign against Islam, and vowed in an Internet statement on Monday it would continue its holy war until Islamic
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Scientists in China have developed a bird flu vaccine for poultry and mammals that can fend off the deadly virus and help stop its spread, the China Daily newspaper said on Monday. The H5N1 strain
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Three armed intruders, thought to be robbers, who had taken at least three hostages at the Spanish consulate in the Swiss capital were on the run on Monday after Swiss police stormed the building, police
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A top Tamil Tiger leader was killed together with four other rebels in eastern Sri Lanka Monday in what appeared to be an internecine clash, government military sources said. The top political wing leader of
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The aging Hubble Space Telescope - a path-breaking scientific instrument whose eye-catching images have won fans around the world - would die in orbit under the 2006 budget for Nasa proposed on Monday. The US
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American scientists have started designing a new generation of nuclear arms that are meant to be sturdier, more reliable and have longer lives, the New York Times reported on Monday, citing federal officials and private
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Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice announced on Monday the appointment of a US general as security co-ordinator to protect budding Middle East peace moves and that Israeli and Palestinian leaders would visit Washington. Israeli Prime
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Sterling fell to a 1-1/2 week low against a broadly strong dollar on Monday but traded near six-week highs against the euro as focus remained on movements in the dollar in the absence of key
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The dollar hit a three-month high against the euro on Monday on the back of upbeat comments from the Federal Reserve chairman about the US current account, but lost some steam later as some of
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