Arizona State University is celebrating this week the launch of its new School of Global Studies, a program designed to put students on track for working in international affairs.

State officials must act quickly to impose tougher environmental restrictions if they hope to reverse the rapid global warming-related pollution increase in Arizona, an environmental policy report released Monday says.

State officials must act quickly to impose tougher environmental restrictions if they hope to reverse the rapid global warming-related pollution increase in Arizona, an environmental policy report released Monday says.

NEW YORK - British business mogul Richard Branson said Thursday he would invest about $3 billion to combat global warming over the next decade.

BEIJING — The auto-parts maker Delphi Corp. is headquartered in Troy, Mich., in the heart of the region that made the United States the car capital of the world. It's a place where the phrase "buy American" is right at home.

MEXICO CITY - A unique strain of swine flu is the suspected killer of dozens of people in Mexico, where authorities closed schools, museums, libraries and theaters in the capital on Friday to try to contain an outbreak that has spurred concerns of a global flu epidemic.

LONDON — The International Olympic Committee is recommending the establishment of special medical centers to deal with cases of athletes with ambiguous sexual characteristics.

LUXEMBOURG - European Union foreign ministers Tuesday declared the spread of bird flu from Asia to Europe a global threat, as the Swiss manufacturer of one of the only available anti-flu drugs announced it was building a new U.S. plant.

Wal-Mart Stores, the nation's largest grocery chain, is adopting new global safety standards for its private label and other foods at a time when analysts say consumers are more concerned than ever about food safety.

Former Vice President Al Gore’s efforts to reverse climate change is mostly a global approach. It’s why he was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize last week in Oslo, Norway.

JOHANNESBURG, South Africa - At field offices in the African bush and at medical schools and research labs worldwide, doctors and scientists funded by Bill Gates are starting to make a difference on a continent all too familiar with poverty, disease and early death.

NEW YORK - Brad Pitt's voice is usually identified with movies such as "Troy," "Ocean's Eleven" and "Twelve Monkeys" - not a six-hour documentary on global health.

April 6, 2005

Exotic pets are trendy these days. Who can resist the appeal of a snake, turtle or a bearded dragon? They’re convenient, allerg y-friendly, shocking and, in the eyes of some beholders, downright cute.

NEW YORK - A few days each week, Jody Maxfield and two or three co-workers grab sandwiches and sodas and gather at a table in an office cubicle to share lunchtime conversation — and worries about the future.

HOLCOMB, KAN. - On a cool spring day, the temperature inside the big block building still hovers above 110 degrees near the house-sized boiler where powdered coal is burned to create steam and generate electricity.

WASHINGTON — The Environmental Protection Agency has concluded greenhouse gases are endangering people's health and must be regulated, signaling that the Obama administration is prepared to contain global warming without congressional action if necessary.

BEIJING - A dirty brown haze sometimes more than a mile thick is darkening skies not only over vast areas of Asia, but also in the Middle East, southern Africa and the Amazon Basin, changing weather patterns around the world and threatening health and food supplies, the U.N. reported Thursday.

Joan Sullivan Garrett remembers early in her career as a flight nurse responding to a young boy who was thrown from a vehicle in a rollover crash on a remote dusty road.

OTTAWA - Canada's prime minister emphasized that a potential bird flu pandemic must be tackled globally and said he would urge health ministers gathering Monday from around the world that no one country could stand alone against its potential spread.

Nearly half of all workers responding to a recent survey say their health has at least some impact on their work performance. The Blue Cross Blue Shield of Arizona Health of Arizonans Study questioned nearly 3,500 Arizonans in June to gauge the health status in the state.

It was a shadow of its predecessor, but Rep. Jeff Flake's second town hall debate on health care wasn't short on angry residents with strong opinions about the reform legislation under consideration in Washington, D.C.

TORONTO - Global health officials warned travelers Wednesday to avoid Beijing and Toronto, where they might get the SARS virus and export it to new locations.