New Zealand dairy giant Fonterra moved to assure parents Wednesday that tainted baby formula which has sparked global safety recalls has all been removed from retailer's shelves.

No products containing a potentially deadly bug, which were distributed from China to Saudi Arabia, were in the shops, Fonterra chief executive Theo Spierings said.

Most Americans do not want to live beyond age 100, and a poll out Tuesday suggests many worry that anti-aging technologies may end up being a luxury for the rich.

The survey of more than 2,000 people by the Pew Research Center's Religion and Public Life Project sought to probe the nation's views on the prospect of living longer lives.

Scientists said Tuesday they had found evidence that a lack of sleep causes changes in brain activity that lead to people feeling hungrier and craving more fattening foods.

Researchers have long pointed to a correlation between a steep rise in obesity in industrialized nations and a decline in sleep duration.

Brazilian scientists have developed an HIV vaccine and plan to begin testing on monkeys later this year, a sponsor institution said Monday.

Known as the HIVBr18, the vaccine against the virus that causes AIDS was developed and patented by a team from the Medicine Faculty of the University of Sao Paulo, the Sao Paulo state Research Foundation (FAPESP) said.

hina has ordered U.S. pharmaceutical company Abbott to recall some products in the country over a botulism scare centered on New Zealand dairy giant Fonterra, authorities said Tuesday.

Two batches of Abbott's baby formula "risked having been contaminated by clostridium botulinum", the General Administration of Quality Supervision, Inspection and Quarantine (AQSIQ) said in a statement.

Companies vying for a stake in the fast-growing electronic cigarette business are reviving the decades-old marketing tactics the tobacco industry used to hook generations of Americans on regular smokes.

They're using cab-top and bus stop displays, sponsoring race cars and events, and encouraging smokers to "rise from the ashes" and take back their freedom in slick TV commercials featuring celebrities like TV personality Jenny McCarthy.

China stepped up warnings to consumers Monday over a botulism scare involving products from a New Zealand dairy company, and has demanded affected importers check their sales records.

The General Administration of Quality Supervision, Inspection and Quarantine (AQSIQ) said it was "warning consumers" following an alert over a bacteria that could lead to the potentially fatal illness.

China has blocked all imports of milk powder from New Zealand, a New Zealand minister said Sunday, after bacteria that can lead to botulism was found in some dairy products.

Trade Minister Tim Groser said the ban was "entirely appropriate", after global dairy giant Fonterra said some exported whey products including infant formula may contain bacteria that could lead to the potentially fatal illness.

Eleven people have died in Cuba after consuming alcohol sold illegally on the street, according to an updated toll out Friday.

"Four people remain in critical condition, two of whom are receiving hemodialysis," Efren Acosta, deputy director of Havana's provincial health department, said.

India has revoked a local patent granted to Britain's GlaxoSmithKline for a breast cancer drug in the latest blow to global companies seeking a bigger presence in the country's $13 billion medicine market.

Tykerb, one of the most widely prescribed breast cancer treatments in India used to treat advanced forms of the disease, is a newer version of GlaxoSmithKline's (GSK) original anti-breast cancer drug lapatinib.