'Once in a lifetime' Hurricane Florence batters US East Coast

She’s here. The driving winds and pelting rain of Hurricane Florence’s western edge began to batter the United States East Coast, giving the region a taste of what’s to come as......

Swine Flu: The real pandemic

The influenza A (H1N1) virus is not transmitted to humans by eating pork -- that much is now known and said. But what are the origins of this virus, which is winging across our air-travel......