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Montreal -- Top 40 fare was the sound du jour at radio station CHOM-FM as Montreal awoke to its first Howard Stern-free day in a year. Songs by Counting Crows, [...]

GREECE'S Olympic Airways has been ordered to pay US$1.4 million by an American court after a man died in 1998 from an asthmatic reaction to on-board cigarette smoke. The judges [...]

NATIVE Americans, cattle ranchers and environmentalists are trying to limit oil and natural gas drilling in New Mexico's San Juan Basin, taking the US government to a Washington DC federal [...]

EMPLOYEE pension fund managers from three US states (including New York) have used their shareholder voting rights to press 10 North American oil companies to share their business plans on [...]

'HOT Ice No. 1,' a US government-industry collaboration looking for methane hydrates in Alaska, has wrapped up without any extraction of the otherwise abundant gas. However, the partners, the US [...]

ECOLOGICAL damage from oil spills is more long-term than most experts have assumed, according to University of North Carolina academic Charles H Peterson, who examined studies of the 1989 Exxon [...]

AMERICAN farmers says recent European Union (EU) trade actions will cost them millions of dollars and are urging their government to bring US laws into compliance with World Trade Organisation [...]

GAP has offered to settle out-of-court a dispute with a group of California employees who opposed paying for company clothing worn on the job, said a lawyer representing them. Their [...]

AMERICAN farmers are calling for the US to comply with a WTO ruling ordering the abolition of foreign trade corporations offering American exporters illegal tax breaks, after the EU started [...]

AT LEAST no one in today's America has to contend with Carry Nation. She was the late-19th century Kansas reformer who crusaded against the sale and consumption of alcohol. Known [...]

PATHOGENS such as listeria, E. coli O157:H7 and salmonella in poultry might soon be better controlled on the abattoir line thanks to a new aerosol spray that has just received [...]

FEELING grouchy? Your low-carb diet could be to blame, according to two Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) researchers who have looked at carbohydrates and brain chemistry. Husband-and-wife researchers Judith and [...]

UNITED States private-label garment retailers will be asking themselves whether they should in future demand more stringent labour relations codes with external clothing manufacturers, after chain Wet Seal settled a [...]

AMERICAN researchers are developing new technologies that should help the energy sector tap potentially huge reserves of natural gas currently locked underground in frozen inhospitable permafrost regions of the far [...]

IT'S most employees' fantasies to have the company CEO see how tough it is in the trenches and maybe in the process see the Guccis scuffed and the Armani turn [...]

LOOKING to sport a mid-career Elvis or the Jamaican flag on your fingernails? A Florida company has begun marketing the NailJet Pro, a machine that can print thousands of available [...]

FEELING grouchy and hungry? Tempted to snack? Your low-carb diet could be to blame, according to Massachusetts Institute of Technology MIT researchers who have looked at carbohydrates and brain chemistry. [...]

A US manufacturer thinks an answer to controlling food pathogen outbreaks in meat production can be found in a spray using chemicals found in standard mouthwashes. With food processors finding [...]

CONFECTIONARY, cereals and fast food make up the majority of American television advertisements targeted to children, according to a study from the Kaiser Family Foundation. It found the number of [...]

US businesses are sheltering an increasing amount of money offshore from the taxman, with 46 per cent of the estimated US$233 billion earned abroad by American-owned multinationals in 2001 being [...]

US companies are reporting steadily declining numbers of workplace accidents and injuries that cost them time and money, said a recent report by The Conference Board, the country's executive association. [...]

GRAZING cattle beef is leaner and more tender than their feed-lot counterparts, with half the saturated fat and higher levels of the more healthy types of fat, according to preliminary [...]

BURGER King's president has resigned, the restaurant chain's chief executive Brad Blum has announced. Bob Nilsen had been on the job for only a year. No reason was given for [...]

THE INTERNET auction house eBay is looking to lure sophisticated fashion shoppers onto its popular site. It signed up US designers Proenza Schouler, who will put up more than four [...]

A LOW-COST American air carrier has just set up a temporary retail shop in Boston to showcase its own wares that has been designed and furnished to look like one [...]

THE US government has been urged to further tighten safeguards on meat and animal feed by an independent international panel, made up of five scientists from Europe, New Zealand and [...]

HONG Kong, China, Poland, Japan, Malaysia, Singapore and South Korea are among 18 countries restricting US poultry imports, after four American states--Delaware, New Jersey, Pennsylvania and Texas--discovered cases of a [...]

THE US Agriculture Research Service is investigating the extent to which grass-fed free range cattle produce meat that is leaner and more tender than beef from feed-lot fattened animals. Its [...]

CITIZENS in the US state of Ohio will not be able to sue food establishments they believe contributed to their ill health, if a new bill becomes law. A state [...]

ADVICE on the humane handling of livestock will be front and centre in a new website being launched next month by The American Meat Institute. For industry, it will provide [...]