Geneva---The UN's World Health Organization on Friday warned that too many women in developing and wealthy countries alike are resorting unnecessarily to Caesarean...
Geneva---The UN's World Health Organization on Friday warned that too many women in developing and wealthy countries alike are resorting unnecessarily to Caesarean...
Panama City---US President Barack Obama and his Cuban counterpart Raul Castro spoke by telephone earlier this week, a US official said Friday, ahead...
New Delhi---India said Friday its industrial production grew by five percent in February, its highest rate in nine months, indicating a boost in...
Harare---A magistrate's court in Harare on Friday sentenced two former senior executives of the national carrier Air Zimbabwe to 10 years in jail...
Lome---Togo officially began its presidential election campaign on Friday with President Faure Gnassingbe's challenger Jean-Pierre Fabre seeking to end nearly 50 years of...
Vilnius---Latvia, current holder of the EU presidency, said Friday it was surprised by Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras's criticism of European Union sanctions...
Paris---France's defence ministry on Friday dismissed claims by self-proclaimed Islamic State cyberjihadists that they had posted classified army documents online when they hacked...
Bamako---France has cancelled $68.7 million (64.8 million euros) in debt owed by Mali, a west African former colony where French forces have helped...
N'Djamena---Seventy-one Chadian soldiers have been killed and 416 injured in two-and-a-half months' fighting Boko Haram, the Chadian army said on Friday. Chad is...
Tripoli, Lebanon---Lebanese security forces killed two suspected Islamist militants and arrested an extremist cleric during a shootout in the north of the country,...
Prime Minister Najib Razak Kuala Lumpur---Malaysia's parliament Friday approved tougher penalties for sedition in a move criticised by the United Nations and described...
Vallon-Pont-d'Arc, France---French President Francois Hollande on Friday stepped 36,000 years back in time into a darkened, cool cave to admire the earliest known...
Baghdad---A car bomb went off near one of Baghdad's landmark hotels and suicide attacker blew himself up in a restaurant north of the...
Hokota---Rescuers were forced to abandon efforts to save around 150 melon-headed whales that stranded on a beach in Japan on Friday, after frantically...
Vienna---Austria on Friday finally decided to ban smoking in cafes and restaurants from 2018 after years of debate in a country famed for...
Moscow---Talks in Moscow between the Syrian government and members of the domestic opposition tolerated by President Bashar al-Assad broke up on Friday with...
Warsaw---Poles on Friday marked the fifth anniversary of the deadly plane crash in Russia that killed then president Lech Kaczynski and 95 officials,...
Bangkok---Thai police on Friday dropped a probe into allegations of human trafficking, abuse and modern-day slavery levelled by an Ethiopian maid at her...
