Life & style: It's the French who hold the secret to a British seaside picnic. Nigel Slater packs the classic 'salad in a bun'

Environment, science & technology: Scientists warn that the North Pole could be free of ice in just five years' time instead of 60

Climax of week-long climate camp ends with a series of clashes

Environment, science & technology: After seven years of drought, flooding with seawater may be river system's only hope

Sellers fear online auctions will die after a decision to allow fixed-price marketing by major retailers

Verizon Communications Inc. and two unions representing 65,000 workers are still talking contracts, one day ahead of a deadline ...

Several explosions on Sunday rocked a county in western China, killing at least one, a hospital official and state media said, ...

Russia refused to agree to a cease-fire or a diplomatic agreement Saturday, ensuring that the fighting with Georgia would keep ...

The ex-mistress of former presidential candidate John Edwards said Saturday she will not participate in DNA testing to establish ...

The European Commission (EC) has begun moves to harmonies the wireless spectrum used by satellite based Internet, disaster relief, TV and phone operators...

Met's most senior Asian officer to make allegations public as he takes force to tribunal

The first anniversary of the credit crunch has come at the end of a week that delivered more bad news for banks as problems continue to flow

Hard up bank charge claimants are being urged to avoid unsympathetic courts and go direct to the Financial Ombudsman to reclaim their cash

The credit crunch and rising fuel and tax costs have hit new car sales but motorists say there's miles to go before they would ditch their vehicles

Background:The status of a disease can be reflected by specific transcriptional profiles resulting from the induction or repression activity of a number of genes. Here, we proposed a time-dependent diagnostic model to predict the treatment effects of interferon and ribavirin

Mammary sarcomas are very uncommon and make up less than 1% of all primary breast malignancies.Primary osteosarcoma of the breast is extremely rare and represents 12.5% of mammary sarcomas. A secondary lesion from a primary osteosarcoma of the bone should

Background:In 1995, Taiwan has launched a national health-care system (the National Health Insurance Program, NHI) covering the use of both Western medicine (WM) and Chinese medicine (CM). This population-based study was conducted to understand the role of CM in this

Business & money: America defends right to choose new boss despite pressure from coalition of 10 developing countries

Background:Use of different methods for assessing the efficacy of artemisinin-based combination antimalarial treatments (ACTs) will result in different estimates being reported, with implications for changes in treatment policy. Methods:Data from different in vivo studies of ACT treatment of uncomplicated falciparum