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BBC REPORTS – President Barack Obama has been re-elected to a second term, defeating Republican challenger Mitt Romney. America’s first black president ...
 At least four people were killed on Wednesday when Hurricane Jova made landfall in western Mexico, officials said. The storm has since weakened to a tropical ...
Eight people were killed on early Wednesday afternoon when a gunman stormed a beauty salon in southern California and opened fire, police said. A suspect has been ...
The United Nations World Food Program (WFP) on Wednesday warned that Yemen is facing a serious humanitarian situation because of rising food prices and political ...
Egypt’s military rulers on Wednesday denied allegations that its soldiers fired on protesters during the recent clashes with Coptic Christians, local media ...
The unemployment rate in the United Kingdom registered 8.1 percent with over 2.5 million people unemployed during the last three month period, the UK Office for ...
Former Ukrainian Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko was found guilty of abuse of office on Tuesday and sentenced to seven years in prison. The trial has been widely ...
The death toll as a result of the devastating dengue fever outbreak in Pakistan has surpassed 200, officials said on Tuesday. Thousands more have been sickened. The ...
Steve Jobs, the iconic entrepreneur who co-founded Apple in the 1970s, died of respiratory arrest caused by a pancreatic tumor, according to his death certificate ...
Afghan detention facilities, which also hold children, have allegedly been carrying out ‘systematic’ torture and mistreatment of detainees, according to ...
The European Union (EU) on Monday called for worldwide abolition of the death penalty, as October 10 marks the World and European Day against the Death Penalty. The ...
Three United Nations peacekeepers were killed on Monday evening when a group of gunmen attacked a UN patrol in the Sudanese state of North Darfur, the African ...
At least thirteen people were killed on Monday when two bomb blasts hit the Iraqi capital of Baghdad, officials said on early Tuesday morning. Nearly two dozen ...
U.S. President Barack Obama on Monday expressed his concern about renewed violence in Egypt which has claimed the lives of at least 26 people, the White House said. ...
Afghan government officials on Saturday said that a man charged with plotting to assassinate President Hamid Karzai was not a bodyguard and had no access to ...
 Italian protesters on Thursday continued to rally outside the country’s parliament in Rome to voice their opposition against a government attempt to curb the ...
Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf was among three women who were awarded the 2011 Nobel Peace Prize on Friday for their work to improve women’s rights. ...
The death toll in Syria has risen to more than 2,900 since pro-democracy protests began earlier this year, the United Nations human rights office reported on ...
At least seven people were killed on Thursday when a large fire broke out at a fireworks factory in central India, police said. The blaze gutted the factory as well ...
Aircraft manufacturer Airbus on Thursday announced that it has finalized a multi-billion contract with Australian airline Qantas for 110 A320 family aircraft. Many ...
Indonesia’s infant mortality rate remains high despite showing a downward trend during the past few years, United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) ...
Calling himself an “underdog,” President Obama today said the faltering economy is a drag on his presidency and seriously impairing his chances of ...
Researchers say they have discovered why men may be more likely than women to develop type 2 diabetes – they are biologically more susceptible. Men need to ...
Cancer experts are to carry out a major study to see if commonly used blood pressure drugs cut the risk of breast cancer spreading. Data from 800 patients has ...
A jury has heard that Michael Jackson’s doctor Conrad Murray failed to tell paramedics he had been giving the star propofol as they tried to revive him. Dr ...
Eight people who were previously convicted of serious crimes including rape were hung in northern and southern Iran on Sunday, state-run media reported on Monday. ...
Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe has again visited Singapore for medical treatment, a minister told the independent Standard newspaper on Sunday. Few details about ...
The piracy monitoring group Ecoterra on Sunday criticized the European Union Naval Force (EUNAVFOR) for destroying a small coastal transport boat off the coast of ...
A grandmother committed suicide in southern Russia on Saturday after two dogs mauled a one-year-old baby to death, local media reported on Monday. The tragedy ...
The government of the African nation of Zimbabwe is preparing a lawsuit against the European Union for imposing what it calls illegal sanctions, state-run media ...
The U.S. government issued a travel alert this weekend to alert Americans to the potential threat of retaliation attacks following the death of senior al-Qaeda ...
At least nine people have been found dead after heavy rainfall caused serious flooding in parts of northern Algeria during the weekend, the government said on late ...
A trial of a new cancer drug, which accurately targets tumours, has been so successful it has been stopped early. Doctors at London’s Royal Marsden Hospital ...
Polio has been found in China for the first time since 1999 after spreading from Pakistan, the World Health Organization (WHO) has confirmed. It said a strain of ...
Scientists have gained new knowledge into how viruses such as flu and HIV jump between species. The research, by Edinburgh and Cambridge universities, should help ...
Doctors at Moorfields Eye hospital in London have been given the go-ahead to carry out Europe’s first clinical trial using human embryonic stem cells. They ...
Scientists in the Netherlands are using robotic legs to try to improve the movement of stroke patients. The prototype device is called the Lower-extremity Powered ...
Nasa says its six-tonne UARS satellite plunged to Earth over the Pacific Ocean, off the US west coast. It appears likely the decommissioned craft came down between ...
Environmental and political activist Wangari Maathai, the first woman from Africa to be honored with the Nobel Peace Prize, died at a hospital in Kenya on Sunday, ...
British police charged six men on Sunday in connection with a suspected plot to carry out a series of suicide bombings in the United Kingdom, officials said. A ...
A human rights group on Sunday noted a ‘sharp decline’ in freedom of opinion and expression in Egypt following the ouster of President Hosni Mubarak ...
Pope Benedict XVI on Saturday said the Catholic Church cannot accept same-sex marriage and urged Christians to defend marriage between a man and a woman. The ...
Iran’s Judiciary on Wednesday approved the release on bail of two U.S. citizens who were sentenced last month for espionage and illegal entry, state-run media ...
Former Afghan President Burhanuddin Rabbani was assassinated on Tuesday during a suicide attack at his residence while meeting with members of the Taliban, officials ...
Facebook members will soon be able to pipe their profile directly to a connected Twitter account. The social networking giant said it was working on the feature in a ...
Blackberry manufacturer Research in Motion (RIM) has seen its second-quarter profits more than halve, hurt by low demand for its older models. The firm rolled out ...
Artificial blood vessels made on a 3D printer may soon be used for transplants of lab-created organs. Until now, the stumbling block in tissue engineering has been ...
US President Barack Obama has outlined plans to reduce the US deficit and to kick-start economic growth. At the White House, he proposed cuts to healthcare benefits ...
Tens of thousands of protesters on Monday rallied in central Tokyo to demand the shutdown of all Japanese nuclear plants and a society free of nuclear power, local ...
The death toll as a result from widespread flooding throughout Thailand in recent months has risen to at least 112 while two people remain missing, authorities said ...
The United Nations (UN) on Monday called on Asian and Pacific countries to further develop its economy with an environmental-friendly industry. According to the UN ...
Investigations have revealed that the pilot of the Russian aircraft which crashed last June, killing 47 people in the northwestern region of the country, was drunk, ...
At least 22 people were killed and scores were injured on Sunday when troops loyal to Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh opened fire on protesters in the capital ...
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Sunday said that the Palestinian bid to become a member state of the United Nations (UN) will fail. Netanyahu said ...
At least 21 people were killed on Thursday afternoon when a suicide bomber blew himself up during a funeral ceremony in northern Pakistan, police and local media ...
Swiss bank UBS on Thursday confirmed a loss of more than $2 billion due to unauthorized trading, causing the bank’s shares to briefly plunge more than eight ...
The United Nations says the use of synthetic illegal drugs such as ecstasy and methamphetamine has overtaken cocaine and heroin. A report by the UN Office on Drugs ...
It may be possible to extend the usefulness of cancer drugs by preventing drug resistance in tumours, say researchers. A study, published in Science Translational ...
The search for more effective cancer treatments may soon harness the healing power of the Autumn crocus. Researchers are poised to start clinical trials with a new ...
Men appear to be biologically wired to care for their babies, say researchers who have discovered levels of testosterone go down after fatherhood. This drop in the ...
Novak Djokovic says a more aggressive approach is key to his excellent form – but insists he is not invincible. The Serbian, 24, won a pulsating US Open final ...
A sophisticated new camera system can detect lies just by watching our faces as we talk, experts say. The computerised system uses a simple video camera, a ...
The number of Americans living in poverty rose to a record 46.2 million last year, official data has shown. This is the highest figure since the US Census Bureau ...
One person was killed on Monday afternoon as parts of the United Kingdom were battered by the remnants of Hurricane Katia, officials and forecasters said. Damage and ...
Bank of America Corp. on Monday announced that approximately 30,000 employees will be cut during the first phase of its management reorganization. The announcement ...
