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The U.S. Department of Justice intends to prove at trial that gross negligence or wilful misconduct by BP caused the 2010 Deepwater Horizon disaster in the Gulf of Mexico, government lawyers have said, in the clearest statement yet that they are seeking the maximum possible penalties from the British oil group.

An FDA effort to speed approval of new medicines allowed drugs for stroke prevention, cancer and multiple sclerosis onto the market without proper safety analysis, according to two drug-safety experts.

Insurance claims from Hurricane Isaac are trickling in, with one estimate saying losses to insurers could total $1.2 billon.

The owner of an online company that refused to pay up after selling insurance to golf tournaments that offered "hole-in-one" prizes to participants has been charged with five felony counts of selling insurance without a license.

Culprits managed to siphon off $30 million worth of syrup. That's the equivalent of 10 million pounds or roughly 15,000 barrels and significantly diminishes supply.

Scientists have found an alarming number of cases of the lung disease tuberculosis in Africa, Asia, Europe and Latin America that are resistant to up to four powerful antibiotic drugs.

One of the advantages of not having an insurance industry with hundreds of years of continuous history is that you get to make things up as you go along.

South Korean rescuers Wednesday recovered two more bodies near two wrecked Chinese fishing boats, bringing the confirmed death toll from Typhoon Bolaven to 18.

A storm surge from Hurricane Isaac topped a levee in Plaquemines Parish south of New Orleans early Wednesday, officials said, trapping those who chose not to evacuate.

Tropical Storm Isaac remains rooted on a northwestward path that will take it on an agonizingly slow journey across the New Orleans area on Tuesday and Wednesday as a Category 1 hurricane.

As a deadly infection, untreatable by nearly every antibiotic, spread through the National Institutes of Health's Clinical Center last year, the staff resorted to extreme measures.

The insurance industry faces its biggest ever loss in agriculture as the worst drought to hit the US in more than half a century devastates the country's multibillion-dollar corn and soyabean crops, triggering large claims.

Cyber security has been an issue for years. But cyber criminals -- be they organized-crime gangsters, politically motivated "hackivists," or even state-sponsored spies -- are getting more clever. What's particularly worrying is that their job is made easier by the very organizations they are all trying to penetrate.

Charlotte is not taking any chances when it comes to liabilities that could result from protest activity or related arrests during next month's Democratic National Convention.

The current West Nile outbreak is one of the largest in the U.S., with four times the usual number of cases for this time of year, federal health officials said Wednesday.