MOSCOW, March 25 (Xinhua) -- Russia dismissed reports on Tuesday that it was allegedly mobilizing troops to its border with Ukraine after the absorption of Crimea, a former Ukrainian republic. "Results of monitoring, which are recognized even by Ukraine, are obvious and the...
Air pollution killed an estimated seven million people worldwide in 2012, the UN health agency has said. Pollution over Amritsar in northern India New research by the World Health Organisation (WHO) found pollution, ranging from cooking fires to car fumes, was linked to one in eight deaths in 2012....
Air pollution kills about 7 million people worldwide every year, with more than half of the fatalities due to fumes from indoor stoves, according to a new report from the World Health Organization publishing Tuesday. The agency said air pollution is the cause of about one in eight deaths and has now...
KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia -- Attempts to recover physical evidence of Malaysia AirlinesFlight 370 in the southern Indian Ocean will have to wait another day: Australian officials postponed the search Tuesday because of rough weather. With forecasts calling for heavy rain, huge swells and gales of up...
The Pritzker Architecture Prize went to Japanese architect Shigeru Ban, it was announced on Monday. Ban won for his inventive ways of building temporary housing out of available materials in countries hit by a...
Five former aides to Bernard Madoff who spent decades working for his firm were found guilty Monday of helping run the biggest Ponzi scheme in U.S. history, a $17.5 billion fraud exposed by the 2008 financial crisis. The three men and two women, hired by Madoff with little financial experience, were...
(Source: Government of the Republic of Rwanda) Rwanda celebrates World Water Day calling for sustainable use of water resources Kigali - 24 March 2014 Rwanda joined the world to celebrate this year's world water day last Friday, calling for the protection of water to sustain energy production. The...
Members of the Russian political elite have had their European and US assets frozen, and travel bans have been put in place to restrict their movements as part of heightened tensions over Ukraine. But do the sanctions have any bite, or are they just symbolic? The UK insists the sanctions are "a...
In France, researchers testing samples from GuineaEbola victims say they have identified the strain of the virus as the “Zaire strain.” That is extremely bad news, as the Zaire strain is considered the deadliest of the five known Ebola strains. “Detection of Zaire Ebola virus...
