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• Asian markets mixed after big Australia rate cut
SEOUL, South Korea - Asian markets showed signs of life Tuesday as investors cheered a big interest rate cut by the Australian central bank aimed at alleviating the unfolding global credit crisis that has battered global markets. A late rally on Wall ...
• Circumcision may not reduce gay male HIV risk
A review of 15 studies involving 53,567 gay and bisexual men in the United States, Britain, Canada, Australia, India, Taiwan, Peru and the Netherlands failed to show a clear benefit for those who were circumcised, researchers from the U.S. government ...
• Drought has Aussie farmers trading water
SYDNEY, Australia - For farmer Malcolm Holm, water now is just like a new shovel or tractor — he has to buy it. The amount of water he is allowed to take from nearby Murrumbidgee River has dwindled to nothing for the past three years because of ...
• Global efforts to tackle credit crisis diverge
TOKYO - Hopes for a coordinated interest rate cut among the world's major economies to ease a global credit crunch have been anything but in sync the last couple days in Asia. While the Reserve Bank of Australia cheered regional markets Tuesday by ...
• EarthTalk: Painkillers and electric bikes
With a switch to energy efficient compact fluorescent (CFL) light bulbs already in full swing in the U.S. and elsewhere—Australia has banned incandescents, Britain will soon, and the U.S. begins a phase-out of incandescents in 2012—more and more ...