With fields left parched and rivers at record lows, government officials and experts meet to discuss the drought across the UK.  

New data released in Germany on June 10 strongly suggested that locally produced bean sprouts were, as suspected, the source of the deadly E. coli outbreak.

Farmers, governments and regulators should take preventive action to improve water management, because climate change will tighten water supplies for agriculture, the United Nations' food agency said.

Four new areas in northern Japan have been added to the list of places affected by radiation originating from the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant, authorities said on June 10.

Three airlines have canceled flights out of two airports in Argentina's capital city on June 9 because of the ash cloud from the Puyehue volcano in Chile, according to media reports.  

China has broken ground on two economic development zones in the Democratic Republic of Korea (DPRK), in a tentative sign that the secretive Leninist state is warming to Chinese-style economic reforms.  

Michael E. Leiter, the head of the nation’s main counterterrorism center, is resigning after nearly four years in a job that has increasingly focused on detecting and thwarting smaller and more diverse terrorist plots.

Russian and European Union leaders meet in the Russian city of Nizhny Novgorod on June 9 for the Russia-EU summit, but with lingering mistrust and unresolved problems in bilateral relations, no major breakthrough is expected.

Western and Arab nations met in Abu Dhabi on June 9 to focus on what one US official called the "end-game" for Libya's Muammar Gaddafi as NATO once again stepped up the intensity of its air raids on Tripoli.

At least 20 people were killed and a dozen others injured in a checkpost attack on June 9 morning in Pakistan's northwest tribal area of South Waziristan, reported local Urdu TV channel Dunya.