WASHINGTON - Congress is taking new whacks at the cigarette industry, banning tobacco sales in Senate buildings and -- more importantly -- seeking a significant federal tax increase on cigarettes. The industry, once a lobbying behemoth, is quietly work

BANGALORE, India -A 2-year-old girl who was born with four arms and four legs showed the first signs of movement Thursday following a marathon operation to remove the extra limbs, doctors said. The girl, Lakshmi, was kept sedated in the intensive care

MOSCOW (Reuters) - Drug addiction kills 80,000 Russians each year, a senior Russian anti-drugs official was quoted as saying on Friday, while a human rights watchdog issued a report warning Russia's drug treatment strategy needed reform. "Russia is sit

HONG KONG (Reuters) - Fear may be linked to the sense of smell, and can be switched off simply by shutting down certain receptors in the brain, Japanese scientists have found. In an experiment with mice, the researchers identified and removed certain

Plants chatter amongst themselves to spread information, a lot like humans and other animals, new research suggests. A unique internal network apparently allows greens to warn each other against predators and potential enemies. Many herbal plants such

ZAMBOANGA, Philippines (AFP) - Philippine authorities seized a Chinese fishing vessel and arrested its 19 crew for illegally poaching endangered sea turtles, police said Friday.The crewmen, from Hainan island off southern China, face charges of catchi

MADRID (Reuters) - Two giant pandas were welcomed like heads of state when they arrived in Spain from China on Saturday to begin a new life in an air-conditioned pagoda and custom-built gardens at Madrid zoo.Seven-year-old male Bing Xing and 3-year-old

MAPUTO (AFP) - The Mozambican government on Monday authorised soldiers to gun down wild animals who are seen as a threat to human beings after a new report highlighted an increase in the number of deadly attacks. "The number of people killed by wild

MONTREAL (AFP) - Canada announced the discovery of three coral "hot spots," which the World Wildlife Federation urged Tuesday must be protected from commercial fishing. The reefs provide protection and habitat for fish, but commercial fishing nets that

More than 16,300 species of animals and plants are on the verge of disappearing from the planet, with nearly 200 more species approaching extinction within the last year, according to the World Conservation Union's 2007 Red List of Threatened Species.