LONDON - G8 leaders will this week commit more than 12 billion dollars (8.6 billion euros) over three years for agricultural development in the developing world, the Financial Times said Monday....
RUTSHURU, Emmanuel Peuchot - With her bright yellow nightdress, it is impossible to miss Dafrose, 50, lying on a bed at the far end of a ward in the Rutshuru hospital in the east of the Democratic...
WASHINGTON, Jean-Louis Santini - Forty years ago on July 20, 1969, American astronaut Neil Armstrong realized the oldest dream of human civilizations when he became the first man to walk on the...
LONDON - Photographs and personal details about the next head of Britain's MI6 foreign intelligence service, John Sawers, were removed Sunday from social networking website Facebook after a British...
BEIJING, Marianne Barriaux - Three people were killed and more than 20 injured when violence broke out Sunday in the capital of China's mainly Muslim northwest region of Xinjiang, the official Xinhua...
LOS ANGELES - A total of 1.6 million people scrambled for tickets to Michael Jackson's memorial service, officials said Sunday as the probe into the singer's death zeroed in on the role of drugs....
TYRE, Jocelyne Zablit- Mustapha Shaalan yearns for the days when he would go out to sea and haul in 40 kilograms (88 pounds) of fish in the blink of an eye.
Nowadays, like most fishermen in this...
BANGKOK, Rachel O'Brien - UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon delivered a stern rebuke to Myanmar's junta Saturday after the country's military ruler refused to let him meet detained pro-democracy...
BAGHDAD, Arthur MacMillan - Iraq on Saturday told the United States to back off in its attempts to resolve rows between the strife-torn country's sects, saying such interference could cause problems...
SYDNEY - People who live on vegetarian diets have slightly weaker bones than their meat-eating counterparts, Australian researchers said Thursday.
A joint Australian-Vietnamese study of links...