Health & Science

• Tuesday, October 9th 2007 - 21:00 UTC

  Financial support for British farmers hit by FMD restrictions

  

  British farmers affected by current restrictions on the movement of animals imposed following the outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease, FMD, are to be given a multi-million-pound package of support.

• Sunday, September 30th 2007 - 21:00 UTC

  Bluetongue: 11 cases in UK but no idea of how virus arrived

  

  The British government is not complacent about bluetongue and will take action against the disease at “a very high level”, Prime Minister Gordon Brown has said.

• Sunday, September 30th 2007 - 21:00 UTC

  Powerful magnitude 7.4 earthquake south of New Zealand

  

  A strong earthquake with a magnitude of 7.4 hit some 500 km (300 miles) southwest of New Zealand on Sunday, but there were no reports of damage and authorities discounted the risk of a major tsunami

• Sunday, September 30th 2007 - 21:00 UTC

  Magallanes has fastest ageing population in Chile

  Magallanes Region has the fastest ageing population in Chile with 17.3% of its residents over 60 and also the highest number of single over 60 households in spite of the fact the region has the second highest per capita income of the country.

• Sunday, September 30th 2007 - 21:00 UTC

  Ozone layer hole reaches outskirts of Punta Arenas

  

  Punta Arenas in the extreme south of Chile, over the weekend and for another couple of days, is estimated to be in the edge of the Antarctic ozone layer hole significantly increasing risks to human beings and living things.

• Wednesday, September 26th 2007 - 21:00 UTC

  “We need an internal climate change at the United Nations”

  

  Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon opened his first annual debate of the General Assembly with a call to global leaders to back his efforts to bolster the United Nations in the interests of the world.

• Tuesday, September 25th 2007 - 21:00 UTC

  UN chief calls for global action on climate change

  

  UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon said yesterday that a 15-year international effort to stem global warming has not halted the buildup of greenhouse gas emissions and that governments must take “unprecedented action” to reverse the trend.

• Monday, September 24th 2007 - 21:00 UTC

  First bluetongue case in England; fears of more FAM

  

  Beleaguered British farmers suffering after several outbreaks of foot-and-mouth face a second threat as a new livestock virus, bluetongue, claimed the life of a Highland cow in Suffolk, east England.

• Monday, September 24th 2007 - 21:00 UTC

  Uruguay among the world's top ten greenest countries

  

  Uruguay is South America most environmentally friendly country and together with Australia are the only two from the Southern Hemisphere to rank among the world's top ten greenest and most livable, according to a list published by Readers' Digest.

• Wednesday, September 19th 2007 - 21:00 UTC

  Experts Confirm Meteorite Crash in Peru

  

  A fiery meteorite crashed into southern Peru over the weekend, experts confirmed Wednesday, but they were still puzzling over claims that it gave off fumes that sickened 200 people.