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(CNN)Bugatti unveiled a new high-performance supercar at the Geneva Motor Show on Monday. The French car maker currently produces only four models -- all variations of the famed Bugatti Veyron. The Veyron was introduced in 2005 and the "Veyron 16.4 Super Sport" was named the world's fastest production car by the Guiness Book of World Records in 2013.

<p>The FBI wants to question a man and two women about the bombings last week at the Emeryville headquarters of the biotech company Chiron Corp., law enforcement officials said.</p> <p>The federal agency put out an alert to police departments advising them to be on the lookout for a 1986 brown Dodge van with Oregon plates, according to local law enforcement sources.</p>

Stepping up its preparations for a possible flu pandemic, the government has awarded a $62.5 million contract to the Chiron Corporation to manufacture millions of doses of a vaccine against the strain of bird flu that authorities fear. The contract with Chiron, announced yesterday by Michael O. Leavitt, the secretary of health and human services, is the second one for the manufacture of large quantities of bulk vaccine that would be stored in a government stockpile. Sanofi-Aventis received a $100 million contract in September and is expected to deliver its vaccine by the end of this year. Chiron, a biotechnology...

British regulators have lifted the license suspension of Chiron's Liverpool, England, manufacturing facility, allowing the company to immediately begin flu vaccine production and ending much of the uncertainty about the 2005-06 influenza season. The decision by the United Kingdom's Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency means that the United States will likely avoid a repeat of the flu vaccine shortage that occurred last year. First announced in October, the suspension immediately cut the U.S. supply in half, leaving public health officials scrambling to find more vaccine, just before the start of the 2004 flu season. Investors immediately welcomed the news,...

The Chiron Corporation said yesterday that it had received a warning letter from the Food and Drug Administration demanding more information about the company's plans to fix widespread sanitary problems at its flu vaccine factory in Liverpool, England. The letter comes after an inspection of the plant by the F.D.A. in October, during which the agency found many problems, including bacterial contamination and lax quality-control procedures. Citing similar findings, British regulators suspended Chiron's manufacturing license for three months in early October, eliminating half of the United States' expected supply of flu shots for this winter. This week, the British regulators...

American regulators knew five years ago that cotamination at the now infamous vaccine plant i Liverpool, England, was both pervasive and persistent, documents show. In fact, evidence was so overwhelming that regulators should have shut down the plant or sought alternative flu vccine sources long ago,say some vaccine experts and pharmac. experts who have reviewed the documents. * continued at kcstar.com

Wyeth Pharmaceuticals doesn't make flu shots anymore, and it doesn't miss them one bit. For two decades, Wyeth made injectable influenza vaccine at a plant in Marietta, Pa. For the winter of 2002-03, it made 21 million doses in a labor-intensive, time-crunched process and shipped them to clinics and doctors' offices early in the fall. But it turned out a lot fewer people wanted it. Flu vaccine can't be saved from year to year. So, sometime the next spring Wyeth threw away 7 million unsold doses, for a loss of $30 million. It then quit making flu shots. It eventually...

This article was reported by Denise Grady, Lizette Alvarez, Gardiner Harris and Andrew Pollack and was written by Ms. Grady. Scene by disheartening scene, the spectacle of a severe shortage of flu vaccine is unfolding around the country. Last week, elderly and chronically ill people waited in line for hours to get flu shots; some were turned away. One died, after hitting her head when she passed out or fell while waiting. Price gougers demanded $800 for $60 vials of vaccine. States threatened to fine or jail doctors and nurses who gave shots to anyone not in the high-risk groups....

The Justice Department has started an investigation of the Chiron Corporation, whose British factory where flu vaccine was being manufactured was shut down last week, depriving the United States of nearly half the flu shots it was expecting for this winter. Chiron, a California biotechnology company, said yesterday that it had received a grand jury subpoena from the United States attorney's office in Manhattan requesting documents related to its flu vaccine and to the suspension of manufacturing at its Liverpool factory by British regulators. The company, which said it would cooperate with the investigation, provided no further information and the...

The British government delivered a major blow to the U.S. health prospects this winter when it shuttered Chiron's (CHIR) flu vaccine shipments, leaving a significant shortage that sent U.S. health officials scrambling. The only other major supplier, Aventis (AVE), a unit of Sanofi-Aventis (SNY), appears able cover only another 10% from its inventory, and there are doubts about that. Medimmune (MEDI) can produce only 2 million flu vaccine doses out of about 100 million needed. Flu season begins in November. Flu shots are usually given in October. It takes six months to bring a production cycle up to par. Some...

Orinda police are investigating the vandalism of the East Bay home of Chiron Corp.'s top attorney on Sunday, in which a group of people broke windows and tried to flood his home with water during a noisy protest. Neighbors said the people were animal-rights protesters wearing black clothing and masks, and carrying signs. The demonstrators converged on the home of Chiron's general counsel William Green on Sunnyside Court in Orinda about 10:15 a.m. while he was away on vacation, neighbors said. The protesters broke about a dozen windows and turned on his garden hose in his backyard deck, and left...

<p>SAN FRANCISCO (AP) &#8212; A growing militant movement opposed to genetic engineering in agriculture and medicine is turning to sabotage &#8212; from the bombing of a biotech company to the destruction of genetically modified crops.</p> <p>As a result, targeted companies are taking extra security precautions and also often altering business strategies. The violence, which the FBI says suddenly became more serious this year, stems in part from frustration that peaceful protests have failed to slow the pace of biotech's progress.</p>

<p>A militant animal rights group that claimed it bombed an Emeryville biotechnology firm in August is taking responsibility for Friday's explosion at Shaklee Inc.'s offices in Pleasanton -- warning that next time the bombs will be bigger and more damaging.</p>

Of the many questions asked in the aftermath of 9/11, one of the most prominent has been: ``Why didn't we see this coming?'' After all, the World Trade Center was targeted by al Qaeda as early as 1993, and attacks on U.S. embassies in Africa and on the USS Cole followed in the ensuing years. In retrospect, there was ample warning of trouble ahead. In contemplating how to prevent future terrorist attacks on the United States, we should bear in mind that the Islamic terrorism of Osama bin Laden isn't the only threat to life and property posed by extremist...

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - Three people, at least two of them from Oregon, are wanted for questioning by the FBI about last week's double bombings at the Emeryville, Calif., headquarters of biotechnology company Chiron Corp. No one was injured in the blasts early last Thursday, but a group called ``The Revolutionary Cells'' claimed responsibility in an anonymous e-mail and warned that the company's employees may be attacked at their homes. Animal rights activists have targeted Chiron because of its contracts with Huntingdon Life Sciences, an English company that uses animals to test drugs. The three people are Bjorn Einertsen, 25,...

<p>SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - Three Oregonians are wanted by the FBI for questioning about last week's double bombings at the Emeryville headquarters of biotechnology company Chiron Corp.</p> <p>Authorities are seeking Bjorn Einertsen, 25, of Portland, Sweet Mensoff, 28, of Eugene and Joani Ruppel, 22. Law enforcement officials said the three are not suspects and won't say what information they have that ties the three together.</p>

SAN FRANCISCO - The FBI said Friday it has opened a domestic terrorism investigation a day after two small bombs damaged the headquarters of biotechnology company Chiron Corp. The bombs were detonated between 2:55 a.m. and 4 a.m. Thursday at the company's Emeryville campus. No one was injured and damage was limited to a few broken windows. Chiron and its executives have been confronted in recent weeks by animal rights activists protesting the company's relationship with a New Jersey lab which tests drugs on animals. On Friday, an animal rights group calling itself variously the "Animal Liberation Brigade" and the...

<p>Emeryville -- UPDATE: An animal rights activist group called the Revolutionary Cells took responsibility today for planting a pair of pipe bombs that exploded early Thursday at the Emeryville biotechnology firm Chiron Corp., causing minor damage.</p> <p>In a statement posted on the Web site of Biteback Magazine, the previously unknown group said members had "descended on the animal-killing scum Chiron'' early Thursday. "We left them with a small surprise of two pipe bombs filled with an ammonium nitrate slurry with redundant timers,'' the statement said.</p>

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