UNITED NATIONS

Malaria deaths have fallen dramatically in the past decade thanks to increased aid allowing more people access to nets and medicines, but the economic slowdown threatens to curb future progress, the World Health Organisation said on Tuesday.

Millions of people in West Africa could be protected from a serious food crisis if preparations are scaled up across the region according to Oxfam.

The world is forecast to grow hotter, sea levels to rise, intense weather to wreak even more destruction and the new deal struck by governments in Durban to cut greenhouse gas emissions will do little to lessen that damage.

Associates of Yasser Arafat offer personal recollections in a documentary screened in Dubai this week on his search for an Israeli-Palestinian peace deal that descended into violence and failed to lead to a Palestinian state.

Linden, who hailed from KwaZulu-Natal, reportedly asserted her innocence and claimed the drugs were planted in her suitcase.

The world is forecast to grow hotter, sea levels to rise, intense weather to wreak even more destruction and the new deal struck by governments in Durban to cut greenhouse gas emissions will do little to lessen that damage.

Local elections were held in Syria on Monday, but will a vote do anything to change the ongoing protests and unrest in the country?

An agreement reached by European countries for deeper economic integration was a step in the right direction but not a complete solution for the euro zone's debt crisis, International Monetary Fund chief economist Olivier Blanchard said on Sunday.

A Saudi Arabian man has been sentenced to 2,080 lashes and 13 years in prison for continually raping his daughter over the course of seven years.

United Nations Climate Change Conference participants agreed on a pact Sunday that for the first time would force all the biggest polluters to take action to slow the pace of global changing.

Republican presidential candidate Newt Gingrich thrust himself into controversy on Friday by declaring that the Palestinians are an invented people who want to destroy Israel.

Hungary's government would like an aid package of between 10 billion euros and 15 billion euros from the European Union and International Monetary Fund to stabilize its economy, preferably on favorable terms, but it would be willing to accept a stricter deal, bank analysts said.

Hungary's government is aiming for a 10-15 billion euro package from the International Monetary Fund and the European Union to stabilize its economy, preferably with lighter terms, but would be also willing to accept a stricter deal, bank analysts said.

Victims of Bosnia's 1992-95 war had most of their anxieties over a film by Hollywood star Angelina Jolie put to rest at a private screening this week.

Ban Ki-moon's surprise visit to Mogadishu on Friday marked the first time since 1993 that a United Nations secretary-general had visited Somalia's capital city.

As people continue to migrate away from rural areas and into cities, cities that are growing to devour the land around it, the numbers of people living in slums, shanty towns and informal settlements are skyrocketing.

Governments worldwide must boost internet accessibility in order to nurture democracy and economic development, entrepreneur Loic Le Meur said at the prestigious LeWeb technology conference in Paris which he founded.

On Dec. 9, 1947, members of the Dutch armed forces murdered at least 431 men in the village of Rawagede.

South Sudan became the world’s newest republic this past July, following decades of civil war that killed some 1.5 million people, after seceding from Sudan.

Six months after a hotel maid accused former International Monetary Fund chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn of rape attempt, surveillance camera footages have emerged which the maid's lawyers call further proof against him.

Police are spread out across Kinshasa while 20,000 soldiers are on stand-by at military bases.