WALAWEYN, Somalia - The rough dirt roads snake through sand dunes and hidden shrubs in the wide-open and dangerous Somali countryside that African Union peacekeepers must drive through to reach newly...
Print15 October2012 On International Day of RuralWomen, Ban calls for more empowerment and end to discrimination Highlighting the role in women in producing much of the world’s food and...
LUXEMBOURG: European Union governments agreed on further sanctions against Iran's banking, shipping and industrial sectors on Monday, cranking up financial pressure on Tehran in the hope of drawing it...
Felix Baumgartner might not have broken Joe Kittinger's world record for the longest time spent in freefall, but he did smash a fourth milestone during his dive. In addition to records for the highest...
Belfast. Alfred Nobel was a visionary who believed in a demilitarized peaceful world. In his Will he left his Nobel peace prize to those who would work for ‘fraternity among nations’,’abolition or...
AFP - The self-proclaimed mastermind of the September 11 attacks and his four co-defendants are due back in Guantanamo court Monday for hearings to pave the way to their trial. It will mark the second...
A fire burns as demonstrators clash with riot police in Athens during a demonstration against the vist of the German ChancellorAngela Merkel. (AFP) Our Coverage A slew of data from across the...
Zeenews BureauRoswell: Diving at a speed faster than the sound, Austrian skydiver Felix Baumgartner has become the first man in history to make the highest jump ever – from a whopping altitude of...
JERUSALEM: In a deadly cycle of targeted assassinations and retaliatory rocket fire, five Palestinians were killed and more were injured in Gaza over the weekend, while militants...
The political decision to keep Greece in the eurozone for at least another year may have been made, but its creditors are doing their best to undermine it by increasing event risk and further hurting...
BRUCE Springsteen had said he planned to stay out of the 2012 election, but these are worrying times and the race is getting closer. So ''The Boss'' will be coming back to rally support for US...
NORWAY, which has rejected the European Union outright, appeared to embrace it on Friday and, surprisingly, handed it the Nobel Peace Prize. You would be forgiven for thinking Academy Awards members...
AP The United Arab Emirates (UAE) plans to send a specialised aircraft to serve as an ambulance for a 14-year-old Pakistani girl shot by the Taliban in case doctors decide to send her abroad for...
Russeifeh, Jordan: From the edge of a steep mountain overlooking a desert compound built into an old rock quarry, machine gunfire echoes just outside hangars where US special operations forces are...
Washington: A US Navy nuclear submarine on Sunday collided with a cruiser off the coast of northeastern Florida, but there were no injuries aboard the two vessels involved in the accident during an...
PARIS - UNESCO is in its "worst ever financial situation" after its biggest contributor the United States froze funding last year, the director general of the United Nations' cultural agency said on...
The month of September saw the last of the 33,000 surge troops leave Afghanistan, in accordance with President Obamaâs directive of 18 months ago. Some 68,000 U.S. troops remain. These soldiers are...