PARIS (AFP) - La cour d’appel de Paris a offert jeudi une victoire aux travailleurs de l’amiante, en jugeant que 36 d’entre eux, partis en préretraite dans le cadre du dispositif proposé aux salariés fortement exposés à l’amiante, avaient subi un préjudice économique et devaient être indemnisés.
Statuant au civil, la cour a condamné leur employeur, [...]

A Chinese man feeds his baby water as they wait for treatment at a hospital in Hefei, eastern China's Anhui province. China's milk scandal escalated dramatically on Thursday as it emerged the illegal chemical blamed for killing four babies had been detected in a wide range of dairy products, leading to mass recalls.(AFP)

BEIJING (AFP) -
China's [...]

PARIS (Reuters) - L’avant-projet de réforme créant une prime transport sera soumis au Parlement dans le cadre du projet de loi de financement de la Sécurité sociale, pour entrer en application le 1er janvier 2009, annonce Matignon.
Les organisations syndicales et patronales, à qui le projet de texte avait été soumis lundi, ont été reçues jeudi [...]

A view of a control tower building for an abandoned airport at the Guantanamo Bay U.S. Naval Base July 27, 2008. REUTERS/Randall Mikkelsen

- The nation’s leading psychologists’ association has voted to ban its members from taking part in interrogations at the prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, and other military detention sites where it believes [...]

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) -
African-American patients are
approximately twice as likely as their Caucasian counterparts
to die following major liver surgery, or hepatectomy, U.S.
researchers report.

Exactly why this is the case is unclear, but it does not
seem to relate to clinical factors, hospital factors, or
insurance status, according to the report in the Journal of the
American College of [...]

PARIS (AFP) - Les entreprises qui ne seront pas couvertes par un accord ou un plan d’action sur l’emploi des seniors d’ici fin 2009 verseront une pénalité de 1% de leur masse salariale, selon un document transmis par le gouvernement aux partenaires sociaux, que s’est procuré l’AFP.
Le principe de cette sanction avait déjà été annoncé [...]

China should compensate thousands of people infected with the HIV virus through government-backed blood trading and be given access to the latest anti-AIDS drugs, Peter Piot, director of UNAIDS, said Thursday.(AFP/File/Ronaldo Schemidt)

BEIJING (AFP) -
China should compensate thousands of people infected with the HIV virus through government-backed blood trading and be given access to the latest [...]

PARIS (Reuters) - Le gouvernement souhaite voir augmenter le prix des cigarettes de 10% au 1er janvier 2009, ce qui rapporterait un demi-milliard d’euros au budget de l’Etat, selon le quotidien le Parisien.
L’annonce a été faite aux fabricants cette semaine à la Direction nationale des douanes. S’ils refusent d’augmenter les prix, l’Etat augmentera directement les [...]

A Chinese man feeds his baby water as they wait for treatment at a hospital in Hefei, eastern China's Anhui province. China's milk scandal escalated dramatically on Thursday as it emerged the illegal chemical blamed for killing four babies had been detected in a wide range of dairy products, leading to mass recalls.(AFP)

BEIJING (AFP) -
Chinese [...]

An man exhales cigarette smoke outside the Bombay Stock Exchange building in Mumbai. Most Indians support plans to tighten existing laws for a complete ban on smoking in public places, according to results of a survey.(AFP/Indranil Mukherjee)

MUMBAI (AFP) -
Most Indians support plans to tighten existing laws for a complete ban on smoking in public places, [...]