Bottled water will no longer be sold in school cafeterias or vending machines and will not be served in school and board events in the Waterloo region of Toronto starting in 2009.

The Waterloo school board made the decision in a bid to promote the high standard of its tap water. However, schools would not prevent students from bringing bottled water to the campus, provided it was not purchased on school grounds

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