Seven former senior employees of Union Carbide’s Indian subsidiary were convicted today of “death by negligence” for their roles in the Bhopal gas tragedy which killed an estimated 15,000 people more than a quarter of a century ago.

A new supermarket labelling scheme being piloted in the North and Scotland in a bid to curb binge drinking was welcomed tonight.

WHEN Devi, her husband and their five children woke up to a nightmare, they ran, as far and as fast as they could.

A US court could order chemical firm Union Carbide to clean up the site of a gas leak that killed thousands of people in central India nearly 20 years ago, now that the Indian government says it has no objection to the move.

An Indian court was to decide today whether to lessen charges against the former chairman of US-based Union Carbide for a 1984 gas leak that left thousands of people dead in one of the world’s worst industrial accidents.