U.S. to promote safety of products from Central America

Wednesday, June 25th, 2008

The United Sates will promote the safety of products imported from Central America, visiting U.S. Health and Human Services Minister Michael Leavitt said Tuesday. Leavitt, who arrived in El Salvador on Monday night from Mexico, inau ...

Three U.S. soldiers killed in bomb attack in Iraq

Wednesday, June 25th, 2008

Three American soldiers and an interpreter were killed in a roadside bomb attack in Nineveh province, the U.S. military said on Wednesday. The attack occurred at 10:45 p.m. (1945 GMT) on Tuesday in Nineveh province, a military state ...

Spain allays fears concerning new EU immigration directive

Wednesday, June 25th, 2008

Spain will not change its immigration policy and a new European Union (EU) directive will not affect the country's current laws, the Spanish Foreign Ministry said Tuesday. At a meeting with Latin American ambassadors Tuesday, State ...

Report: nearly 24 mln have diabetes in U.S.

Wednesday, June 25th, 2008

Nearly 24 million Americans had diabetes in 2007, an increase of more than 3 million in two years, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. This means that nearly 8 percent of the U.S. population has the dis ...

America’s poor besieged by worms, parasites

Wednesday, June 25th, 2008

America's poor are besieged by worms and parasites that are draining their health and energy, an expert said Tuesday. And "diseases of neglect" associated with the developing world, such as dengue fever and Chagas disease, may becom ...

Conservation measures urged to preserve tuna at risk in E Pacific

Tuesday, June 24th, 2008

The fishing countries of the eastern Pacific should adopt conservation measures to guarantee the existence of endangered tuna in the eastern Pacific, the Inter-American Tropical Tuna Commission (IATTC) warned on Monday. The warning ...

"Get Smart" tops weekend box office in N. America

Monday, June 23rd, 2008

Warner Bros. thriller-comedy "Get Smart" is expected to top the box office in North America this weekend as the film takes in estimated 39.1 million dollars over the four-day period, according to preliminary figures released Sunday. ...

Toyota Builds New Training Center

Saturday, June 21st, 2008

Toyota is working like a dynamo to maintain the quality of its vehicles. The most recent initiative, by far, is the construction of a $4.5 million-worth training center which has an annual operating budget of about $6 million. With that in mind, the new training center isnā??t just a so-so, ...