East African Community (EAC) leaders yesterday formally agreed to allow free trade, movement of people and right of residence in the region, with the signing of the protocol establishing a common market.
PESHAWAR, Pakistan - A security guard has been wounded in an explosion outside the office of a non-governmental organization in the main city in northwestern Pakistan.
The fate of eastern Europe was once decided in the Crimean resort town of Yalta. When Vladimir Putin, Russia's prime minister, and his Ukrainian counterpart, Yulia Tymoshenko, meet there today the ...
TWIN Krishna has woken from her medically induced coma and blown her guardian a long-awaited raspberry. Moira Kelly of the Children First Foundation said Krishna woke about 8pm (AEDT) last night.
PARIS, Nov. 19 (Xinhua) -- France would not accept any new demand from Iran over its nuclear program, the foreign ministry said on Thursday, a day after the Islamic republic rejected an international proposal to resolve the issue.
UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon on Friday called the 20-year-old Convention on the Rights of the Child as a beacon and guide to protect "the youngest and most vulnerable members of society".
China has voiced strong dissatisfaction over Italian Chamber of Deputies speaker Gianfranco Fini's meeting with the Tibetan spiritual leader Dalai Lama, a media report said on Friday.
BERLIN -- Mohamed ElBaradei, the departing chief of the United Nations' nuclear watchdog agency, said Iran's continued refusal to accept tighter scrutiny of its nuclear activities would likely force the ...
NOT in the mood for deck quoits? Then how about a stroll in the park or a high-diving display? Stephen McGinty ponders the options on the Oasis of the Seas, the world's biggest, most advanced cruise ship THERE was a time when to cruise meant days of ...
WASHINGTON - Senator Ben Nelson of Nebraska, one of three wavering Democrats, said Friday that he would vote to start debate on a giant health care bill as Democrats and Republicans squared off over the ...
During talks in Beijing, US President Barack Obama and Chinese President Hu Jintao endorsed a package of energy projects, including deals on clean coal and electric vehicles.
SYDNEY - 'CATASTROPHIC' alerts have been issued in Australia after record-breaking temperatures and wild lightning storms sparked more than 100 fires across the country, officials said on Saturday.
PESHAWAR, Pakistan - An explosion struck the office of an aid organization in northwestern Pakistan near the Afghan border on Saturday, wounding a security guard, police said.
In the months before the deadly shootings at Fort Hood, Army Maj. Nidal M. Hasan intensified his communications with a radical Yemeni American cleric and began to discuss surreptitious financial ...
Defense Secretary Robert Gates attends a conference but, with the Obama administration wrestling over its Afghan strategy, isn't in a position to push Canada to reconsider a troop withdrawal plan.
KABUL: Local security forces backed by NATO troops killed more than three dozen Taliban in a series of military operations across Afghanistan, Afghan authorities said on Wednesday.
India and the US are pushing to tie up vital details of a nuclear-energy cooperation agreement approved by their legislatures last year, ahead of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's visit to the White House Tuesday, said officials from both countries.
Nov. 20 (Bloomberg) -- A second Bangladeshi twin began waking up today and opened her eyes, three days after being separated from her conjoined sister by surgeons in Australia.
Frustration as Iran Stalls on Deal New York Times - .. - Nytimes PARIS - Senior officials from Western powers discussed the possibility on Friday of new sanctions on Iran for flouting the United Nations Security Council's demands and expressed disappointment that Iran had not yet accepted a draft ...
Teoh exhumation begins - Themalaysianinside KUALA LUMPUR, Nov 21 - The exhumation of Teoh Beng Hock's body for a second autopsy, ordered by the inquest into his recent death, has begun.
Oprah's departure presents problem for TV stations .. - Google CHICAGO - For more than two decades, Oprah Winfrey has been the inspirational, change-your-life champion who reigned over daytime television much like Johnny Carson once ruled late night.
Scientists at Cern hold their breath as LHC prepares .. - Guardian Cern scientists anxiously monitor their screens during the switch-on of the LHC in September last years. Photograph: AFP A giant scientific instrument that was designed to recreate the big bang but blew itself up in the process will be back in business ...
F News - Dailytech OS X 10.6.2 support for Atom processors has been restored by a Russian hacker who released a modified kernel which he dubs "Mach". ...
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High value for Honda's next CR-V - Ayrshirepost HONDA claims it will maintain its tradition of high value in the sport utility sector when the next CR-V model arrives in the showrooms in January.
Don't hide H1N1 deaths, China warns - Themalaysianinside BEIJING, Nov 21 - China said it will punish officials caught concealing deaths from the H1N1 flu, after a doctor - famous for exposing the extent of the 2003 Sars epidemic - said suspect cases may have been covered up by local governments.
Diplomats arrested for cigarette smuggling - Yahoo Reuters - Swedish police have arrested two North Korean diplomats on suspicion of smuggling 230,000 cigarettes into the Nordic country, the Swedish Customs Office said Friday.
