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The number of Chinese babies known to have fallen ill with kidney stones as a result of contaminated milk powder has risen to 432, officials have announced. "This is a severe food safety accident," health ministry official Gao Qiang, said. Those responsible would be "severely" punished, he added. Later, it was announced that 19 people had been arrested. Tests showed the milk powder contained the industrial chemical melamine. One infant has died. The new scare revived memories of a fake baby milk formula scandal four years ago in which at least 13 babies died. Vow to punish ...

(17:35) The Jerusalem Post's Caroline B. Glick, on the road to Baghdad with the US 3rd Infantry, reports it has captured what could be the first chemical weapons plant uncovered since the onset of Operation Iraqi Freedom.

TAJI, Iraq (Reuters) - Iraq showed reporters a warehouse stuffed with baby milk and sugar on Tuesday to repudiate a U.S. newspaper report that the building was being used to produce biological weapons. Iraqi Trade Minister Mohammed Mehdi Saleh met international media at a warehouse in the Taji area northwest of Baghdad, which U.S. intelligence officials quoted in the Washington Times newspaper last week said was a biological weapons facility. But instead of weapons and sophisticated labs, reporters on Tuesday found baby milk and sugar which had been bought under Iraq's oil-for-food deal with the United Nations. "They (Americans) are...

AL-TAJI, Iraq (AFP) - Iraq has denied US reports that a warehouse for foodstuffs just north of Baghdad was secretly producing biological weapons.Iraqi authorities organised a visit for journalists accredited in Baghdad to the facility, around 30 kilometres (20 miles) northwest of the capital, to see for themselves.Trade Minister Mohammad Mehdi Saleh explained on site that the facility in question was indeed a warehouse used by his ministry to stock foodstuffs.The Washington Times daily reported on August 14 that a US spy satellite had photographed some 60 trucks moving about at a facility once called the Al-Taji Single Cell Protein...