Joseph Alan Alonso

The United States is stepping up inspection of poultry farms to keep eggs free of salmonella.

The inflation report on Monday showed a decline in prices of fruits and vegetables which dropped by 5.6 percent last month after a decrease of 1.6 percent in August.

Big labor groups in Greece are up against the proposal of Prime Minister George Papandreou's government to place some 30,000 state workers in a special labor reserve force with lower wages as part of its austerity measures to reduce the nation's budget deficit.

Scientists from the University of California at Santa Cruz are relying on the power and capabilities of a NASA supercomputer to generate a thorough image of galaxies like the Milky Way developing under the forces of dark matter and energy.

A Muslim-American from Ashland in Boston was arrested on Wednesday near the Pentagon and charged with trying to destroy or damage the headquarters of the U.S. Defense Department and the U.S. Capitol with remote-controlled model planes loaded with 24 pounds of C-4 explosives.

The NASA Messenger Spacecraft has presented its discoveries on the planet Mercury that refuted earlier textbook claims.

A huge farm in Salinas, California has decided to voluntarily take back bags of romaine lettuce from its dealer after reports of possible contamination with Listeria.

Various companies from a cross section of industries have sought the assistance of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security in the wake of an onslaught of cyber burglaries that have plagued their computerized control systems.

German lawmakers voted 523 to 83 on Thursday to widen the extent of the European Financial Stability Facility (EFSF) and become the 11th European nation to concur with the idea of increasing the bailout fund.

Officials of the Jiuquan Satellite in Northwest China have set off the Chinese Long March 2FT1 rocket that will convey the country’s first archetype space laboratory into course on Thursday.

A study being conducted by an international group of researchers has found out that plants use up carbon dioxide 25 percent more rapidly than it was previously known.

The European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), which recently shocked physics by reporting particles moving faster than light, hopes to crack one of the greatest mysteries of the cosmos.

The Parliament of Finland has agreed to contribute its share to a larger bailout fund for countries that are deep in debt by voting 103 to 66, with 30 representatives absent, leaving only 7 out of 17 members of the euro zone to ratify the bailout subsidy.

Leaders of the European Community are confronted with a predicament on how to respond to the lingering debt crisis even as instability in the financial markets continued on Wednesday and apprehensions increased about the status of Euro banks.

U.S. Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke on Wednesday expressed that national unemployment is a serious problem that has to be dealt with immediately.

Japanese Finance Minister Jun Azumi announced on Tuesday that his government is willing to shoulder a portion of the burden in connection with the rescue proposal for Greece if the EU can put together a logical plan to reduce market worries.

A company in the U.S. achieved a major breakthrough by transforming agricultural waste into fuel for motor vehicles and other useful chemicals by treating the waste with compacted water heated to extremely high temperature.

Another satellite is expected to crash into earth after NASA’s Upper Atmosphere Research Satellite fell into the Pacific Ocean a few days ago.

The European Commission (EC) announced on Wednesday that the European Union has proposed a financial transactions tax that is set to take effect in 2014.

A report released by the G-20’s Financial Stability Board is calling on Australian legislators and finance managers to implement measures that will minimize the country’s dependence on the big four banks.

Members of the 300-member Greek parliament voted 154-143 in favor of the new property tax on Tuesday to comply with deficit reduction goals necessary in averting default.

The World Health Organization (WHO) on Tuesday disclosed that 2 million people from more than 1,000 cities across 91 countries die each year because of the effects of massive air pollution.

Females who want to get rid of depression can now find solace in drinking caffeine-laced drinks although researchers based in Harvard claimed that more research is necessary before they can recommend that drinking several cups a day can be considered as therapy.

A medical study released online on Monday in the New England Journal of Medicine showed that certain individuals afflicted with asthma will not be capable of responding to inhaled steroids which are used for long-term asthma control.

The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission is investigating Standard & Poor on suspicion of issuing a complex mortgage security identified as Delphinus in 2007, at a time when the housing market already was crumbling.

Some 200 customs employees assigned at the Sydney Airport walked out from their jobs today over a wage dispute stopping operations and forcing numerous passengers to miss their flights.

Greek lawmakers are expected to make crucial decisions today on the property tax that may serve as the means to convince the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and European Union (EU) to make available an 8 billion euro ($11 billion) loan.

The trial of 38 year-old Matthew Johnson, who has been accused of slaying convicted murderer and drug trafficker Carl Williams in HM Barwon prison in Geelong last year, enters its final stage as the jury begins to deliberate on its final verdict beginning on Tuesday.

Undergoing prostrate cancer biopsies, which take only 15 minutes, has become more hazardous for men, according to a recent research in the U.S.