Twenty-five thousand people are expected to gather in Vienna July 18 to 23 for the World AIDS Conference. Global health experts will focus on a lethal line-up - HIV/AIDs and tuberculosis. TB is a leading cause of HIV-related deaths worldwide. The Wor...
People sit in the Corail-Cesselesse camp for earthquake displaced people on outskirts of Port-au-Prince, Haiti (file photo) Haiti is marking six months since the powerful earthquake that killed more than 220,000 people and left Port-au-Prince and sur...
A heat wave in Iran has prompted the government to call for cutbacks in the consumption of water and electricity. The move comes as Iran deals with intensified international sanctions and an ongoing strike by Tehran's bazaar owners. The Iranian econo...
Turkish ship Mavi Marmara taking part in the 'Freedom Flotilla' heading towards the Gaza Strip (file photo 28 May 2010) Israel has published its first internal investigation of the deadly raid on an aid flotilla heading to the Palestinian-ruled Gaza...
Worsening food shortages caused by irregular rainfall and poor harvests in 2009 threaten seven million people in Niger. Aid workers say the country's children are in particular danger. Niger is one of the poorest nations in the world and hunger rates...
Pakistan's Foreign Secretary Salman Bashir speaks to media as his Indian counterpart Nirupama Rao, left, looks on before the start of a delegation level meeting in New Delhi (file photo 25 Feb 2010) Terrorism is expected to top the agenda later this...
The United States said Monday that the twin bomb attacks in Uganda attributed to Somali al-Shabab militants have backfired, only strengthening Uganda's commitment to Somali peacekeeping. U.S. agents of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, or FBI, are...
Damaged chairs and tables amongst the debris strewn outside the restaurant Ethiopian village in Kampala, Uganda, 12 July 2010 after an explosion at the restaurant late Sunday Officials in Uganda say Somalia's al-Qaida-linked al-Shabab rebel group is...
In a foul-plagued World Cup final, Andres Iniesta was the big hero for Spain. The Barcelona midfielder collected a sliding pass from substitute Cesc Fabregas and shot the ball past Dutch goalkeeper Maarten Stekelenburg in the 116th minute of extra ti...
The Herskovits Library of African Studies at Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois has amassed one of the largest collections of Obama-related Africa artwork in the world Three years ago, the Herskovits Library of African Studies at Northwest...
A few commuters in a subway train making stop at Park Kultury subway station in Moscow, 29 Mar 2010 Moscow has one of the most extensive metro systems in the world, and arguably one of the best. But, a new stop dubbed, The Station of Suicides, has ma...
Octopus oracle Paul chooses a mussel from a glass tank marked with a Spanish flag, next to a box with a flag of Holland, in the SeaLife Aquarium in Oberhausen, Germany, 9 Jul 2010 Football fans in Spain were rejoicing Friday after an octopus called P...
As the 2010 football World Cup enters its final hours in South Africa, another football tournament is taking place in the impoverished township of Alexandra, in northeastern Johannesburg. Several hundred young people from disadvantaged communities in...
An annular solar eclipse is seen formed over the sky of Burma's ancient historic city of Bagan, 15 Jan 2010 Holly Gilbert, an astrophysicist at NASA, explains the science behind the spectacle of the sun's disappearance. So during a total solar eclips...
Three British citizens have been convicted of plotting suicide attacks on airliners flying between Britain and the United States. They were convicted days after London marked the fifth anniversary of the July 2005 bombings. Fifty-two people died when...
