TOKYO (Reuters) - An independent panel issued a damning report into the $1.7 billion accounting scandal at Japan's Olympus Corp, urging legal action against executives behind the cover-up and the replacement of others who knew about it. "The core part of management was rotten and the parts around it were also contaminated by the rot," the 178-page report, commissioned by the company, said. "In the worst pos ...

Fake or poor quality malaria drugs are boosting resistance in parts of southeast Asia, a problem that is likely to worsen unless tighter regulations are adopted, US experts said Monday. "The malaria parasite has a history of adapting to drugs and adapting to insecticides," Regina Rabinovich, director of infectious diseases at the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, told a hearing of US lawmakers. "Drug resis ...