This is insane! The Bush administration can prohibit meat packers from testing their animals for mad cow disease, a U.S. appeals court said Friday so that companies who don't test, due to the expense, won't have to.

According to a recent study completed by Gerry Fairbrother of Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, over 50% of our nations states will not have enough funding to help the 47 million Americans who are currently uninsured.

A string of major retailers pulled plastic products with bisphenol A off their shelves on Thursday, part of a purge at stores across the country in anticipation of a Health Canada warning that the chemical is dangerous.

Rising food prices have caused rebellions in some developing countries and are likely to push more than 100 million people worldwide into deep poverty, according to World Bank President Robert Zoellick.

Internet addiction -defined as "excessive gaming, sexual pre-occupations, and email/text messaging" - is becoming so common that at least one psychiatrist says it merits inclusion in psychiatry's official handbook of mental illness

"Once planted, I do absolutely nothing," says Sepp Holzer. "It really is just nature working for itself - no weeding, no pruning, no watering, no fertiliser, no pesticides." How the principles of permaculture are working wonders in the Austrian mountains.