Citing a dramatic increase in infant deaths, Los Angeles County officials are warning parents not to let babies sleep in the bed with them.

The warning comes at a time when the practice, known as "co-sleeping," is growing in global popularity

China has revealed its proposed new food safety law designed to combat problems with substandard or dangerous food and restore faith in the country's food products, according to reports Monday.

China's CCTV reported Monday that the law was the first of its kind for the nation

round 10 million children below five years old die every year due to preventable diseases that become even more common when weather patterns change. UNICEF highlights the impact of climate change n women and children on the occasion of World Health Day 2008, with the theme climate change and health.

According to Ann M. Veneman, Executive Director of UNICEF, "Nearly 10 million children under age five die every year of largely preventable diseases. Many of the main global killers of children, including malaria and diarrhea, are sensitive to changes in temperature and rainfall, and could become more common if weather patterns change

Asia faces growing challenges from rising temperatures and increased rainfall that threaten to increase poverty, hunger and disease according to the World Health Organization's World Health Day report.

Although the threats from the effects of global warming are worldwide, people living in developing nations are more vulnerable because they have fewer resources to deal with the changes, officials say

early 30 surveys by France's INSERM, a public organization dedicated to biological, medical and public health research, have established a link between lack of sleep and obesity in both children and adults.

Sleep loss caused a 23 to 24 percent increase in hunger, translating into an extra 350 to 500 kilocalories a day, "which for a young sedentary adult of normal weight could lead to a major amount of added weight," Spiegel said according to Agency France Presse