Experts said a UN plan to upgrade "space weather" forecasts can help the world cope with solar storms that might rack up to $2 trillion in damages.

By Thomas Goldsmith, The News & Observer, Raleigh, N.C. Jul. 3--For 15 years, the state has had the right to take over an adult-care home if residents were at risk of death or serious harm.

By Theresa Agovino Associated Press NEW YORK -- Pfizer Inc. will likely slash staff and accelerate merger and licensing deals as the pressure on it to improve its financial performance intensified after the weekend's announcement that the company ended development of a key drug, analysts said.

Shares of Pfizer Inc., the world's largest drugmaker, sank Monday on news that the company had halted development of a key new cholesterol treatment. The stock fell $4.06, or almost 15 percent, to $23.80 in pre-market trading.

By Robert Davis and Julie Schmit Doctors leading a global war on heart disease say they are "devastated" by the loss of a new drug they had expected to be an important weapon in the fight against high cholesterol.