Swine flu will have a "devastating effect" on poor countries where lives will be lost due to ill-equipped health care facilities, the World Health Organization warned on Tuesday.
The World Health Organization said Thursday that pharmaceutical firms can produce only three billion doses of swine flu vaccines a year, covering less than half of the global population.
The World Health Organization strengthened its air quality guidelines on Wednesday, saying air pollution was now one of the biggest environmental threats to human health, causing seven million premature deaths a year.
The World Health Organisation said Sunday it is helping China solve its tainted milk formula problem, while criticising the government for initially failing to alert the international community.
Pacific island leaders on Friday demanded urgent action from the global community to address climate change, following fresh warnings that the region would be hit harder than anywhere else on Earth.
Too vulnerable to evacuate, dozens of children hunkered down in a New Orleans hospital as Hurricane Gustav blasted the city around them with powerful winds.
Volunteer rescuers ran non-stop airlifts to remote areas of Papua New Guinea on Tuesday, seeking to reach victims still stranded two days after a massive 7.6-magnitude earthquake.
Volunteers rushed to areas inundated by floods in Myanmar on Sunday as the country's death toll from the Typhoon Yagi deluge surged to 113 and remote areas reported increasing numbers of dead and missing.
Volvo Cars announced Friday it would cut up to 400 temporary consultant positions and has reportedly issued an ultimatum to its Swedish suppliers to slash…
Instead of the shouts of noisy children, the halls of the primary school in the German town of Dernau are filled with the deafening sound of a dozen drills.
Shanghai Volkswagen will recall 7,544 vehicles whose flawed design could cause drivers to lose steering control, China's quality watchdog said on its website on Friday.
German auto giant Volkswagen said on Friday that worldwide sales of its cars powered ahead in August, driven by strong demand in China.
German car giant Volkswagen on Monday announced a fresh 15 billion euro ($17.5 billion) splurge on China's vast electric vehicle potential.
The pollution cheating scandal that has engulfed auto giant Volkswagen touches one of the main nerve centres of the German economy, given the importance of the car sector both politically and economically.
German carmaker Volkswagen doubled down Monday on efforts to clean up its image tarnished by the dieselgate scandal, vowing ahead of the IAA auto industry show…
German auto giant Volkswagen and China's Anhui Jianghuai Automobile are in talks to build electric cars together, the firms announced Wednesday, the latest possible tie-up in a burgeoning Chinese market for clean-energy vehicles.
