Health & Science

• Wednesday, April 7th 2010 - 23:29 UTC

  Chavez hikes basic food prices, including milk, 30% on average

  

  Venezuela raised this week government-set price caps on milk and dairy products as much as 30% in an attempt to boost benefits for producers and head off shortages of basic goods.

• Wednesday, April 7th 2010 - 22:50 UTC

  First cholera case in twelve years diagnosed in Chile

  

  The Chilean Antofagasta regional hospital diagnosed an 18-month old infant girl with cholera on Monday. Dr. Antonio Cárdenas, Chief of Paediatrics, told a local paper in Antofagasta that the infant had a virus called Vibrio Cholera.

• Saturday, March 27th 2010 - 06:47 UTC

  Chile and Uruguay best ranked in global information technology report

  

  Sweden tops the rankings of The Global Information Technology Report 2009-2010, released this week for the ninth consecutive year by the World Economic Forum.

• Tuesday, March 23rd 2010 - 03:39 UTC

  Unsafe water kills more people than war, Ban says on World Day

  

  More people die from unsafe water than from all forms of violence, including war, Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said Monday, calling for better protection and sustainable management of one of the Earth’s most precious resources on the occasion of World Water Day.

• Tuesday, March 23rd 2010 - 03:13 UTC

  Drug abuse among teenagers in several South American countries

  

  The Organization of American States (OAS), through its Inter-American Drug Abuse Control Commission (CICAD), and the United Nations (UN), through its Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC), presented in Vienna the latest joint study on drug consumption among student populations in Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, Ecuador, Peru and Uruguay.

• Monday, March 22nd 2010 - 21:01 UTC

  Pepsi promises to help with campaign to fight childhood obesity

  

  The world's second-largest food and beverage company says it will reduce the saturated fat, sodium, and sugar in its products to make them more nutritious.

• Monday, March 22nd 2010 - 11:18 UTC

  US Congress passes Barack Obama's historic health care reform bill

  

  Barack Obama has convinced Democrats in the US Congress to pass his historic health care reform bill, handing the president a victory that will give nearly every American the right to health coverage and could define his time in office.

• Friday, March 19th 2010 - 00:07 UTC

  Inventor of the Web says WWW is a fundamental right for a democracy

  

  The World Wide Web is becoming as important to the future of mankind as free speech, the inventor of the Web Sir Tim Berners-Lee has said. Because the network is neutral and access to data open, the Web is becoming a vital tool to ensure open government, and as such it should be considered a right.

• Wednesday, March 17th 2010 - 22:52 UTC

  Astronomers detect outer solar system planet with “moderate” temperatures

  

  European astronomers have found a planet outside our solar system with a relatively moderate temperature, far cooler than other “exoplanets” discovered to date. The planet Corot-9b has an estimated surface temperature between 160 C and -20 C. It has about 80% of the mass of Jupiter and its orbit is similar to that of Mercury.

• Wednesday, March 17th 2010 - 22:30 UTC

  Facebook beats Google as the most visited website in the US

  

  Facebook has beaten Google to become the most visited website in the US for the first time. The social networking website knocked the search engine off the top spot for the week ending March 13, according to industry analysts Experian Hitwise.