DOHA - THE UN wildlife trade body on Sunday was to debate controls on commerce in precious coral, harvested in the Mediterranean and the western Pacific and then crafted into jewellery mainly in Italy.
MONTREAL - CANADA jumps into spring after having recorded the mildest and driest winter on record, Environment Canada reported on Friday.
The agency, which has compiled data from 1948, determined the average temperature throughout the country was 4 deg C above normal, said meteorologist Andre Cantin.
LONDON - BRITISH and Italian doctors have carried out groundbreaking surgery to rebuild the windpipe of a 10-year-old British boy using stem cells developed within his own body, they said.
In an operation on Monday lasting nearly nine hours, doctors at a London hospital implanted the boy with a donor trachea, or windpipe, that had been stripped of its cells and injected with his own.
DOHA - FOUR rapidly dwindling shark species prized in Asia for fins and in Europe for meat will be swimming against the current at a UN wildlife trade meet days after an attempt to protect tuna was crushed.
