Posted: 10:32 PM Cancer is emerging as a global concern in Africa. The continent has an acute shortage of experts such as oncologists. It also lacks infrastructure and data to combat the disease.
Posted: 9:22 PM Official ballot counts began in Mexico on Wednesday. The political parties will supervise, review and watch over the recount. Early results announced last Sunday, give the Presidential victory to PRI's Peña Nieto.
Posted: 9:17 PM "There is sufficient evidence" Yasser Arafat was killed, PLO official says. Use of polonium-210 as a poison "does seem a bit of a stretch," toxicologist says, and test results do not necessarily mean Arafat was poisoned.
Posted: 3:45 PM A human head found in a Montreal park this week belongs to Jun Lin, the Chinese university student killed and dismembered in May, police said Wednesday.
Posted: 1:41 PM Archaeologists are reveling in the discovery of an ancient synagogue in northern Israel, a "monumental" structure with a mosaic floor depicting the biblical figure of Samson and a Hebrew inscription.
Posted: 11:03 AM The French military handed over control of the Afghan province of Kapisa to local forces, a French military spokeswoman said Wednesday.
Posted: 11:01 AM Many people watching the Timothy Bradley-Manny Pacquiao fight believed the underdog stole the welterweight belt during the match, but the Nevada attorney general has said after a review that no crime occurred.
Posted: 10:16 AM Flooding described by India's prime minister as the worst in recent times, has left at least 95 people dead and almost 2 million others homeless in the country's remote Assam state.
Posted: 10:05 AM Scientific tests have found unusually high levels of the radioactive substance polonium-210 in some of the personal effects of the late Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat, one of the scientists involved in the study said Wednesday.
Posted: 10:32 PM The move comes amid an ongoing campaign finance investigation. Police raided the home and offices of former French President Nicolas Sarkozy, who lost his re-election bid to Socialist François Hollande in May.
Posted: 10:22 PM Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador also challenged the 2006 election results. Mexico's presumed president-elect, announced Sunday, says it is time for the country to leave behind political rancor.
Posted: 9:46 PM A video released by an Israeli human rights organization shows what the group describes as a 9-year-old Palestinian boy being assaulted by two border police officers in the West Bank city of Hebron.
Posted: 8:55 PM Park Jung-geun, a photographer by profession, re-tweeted some messages from North Korea's official twitter feed, such as reports on the late leader Kim Jong Il's travels across the country and negative tweets about South Korea. His attempt at humor could see him jailed for up to seven years in South Korea.
Posted: 7:20 PM A series of bomb blasts killed at least 37 people across Iraq on Tuesday, including 30 in an explosion at a vegetable market in Diwaniya, police officials said.
Posted: 6:27 PM On only his second day in office on Monday, Hong Kong's chief executive was chased out of a town hall meeting by protesters, in a continuation of the widespread backlash against his appointment, according to local media reports.
Posted: 5:45 PM Israel's prime minister on Tuesday moved to contain the first major crisis in his newly expanded coalition government after his most significant partner threatened to quit in a dispute over how to overhaul the country's military draft.
Posted: 5:42 PM The Obama administration said Tuesday that Pakistan was reopening its supply lines into Afghanistan, after the U.S. belatedly issued an apology for the November killing of 24 Pakistani troops in a NATO airstrike.
Posted: 5:34 PM At the start of a big week for the Higgs boson, the most sought-after particle in all of physics, scientists in Illinois said Monday that they had crept closer to proving that the particle exists but had been unable to reach a definitive conclusion.
Posted: 5:21 PM Police on Tuesday raided the Paris home and offices of Nicolas Sarkozy, his attorney said, amid an ongoing investigation into whether the former French president received illegal campaign contributions.
Posted: 3:18 PM On only his second day in office on Monday, Hong Kong's chief executive was chased out of a town hall meeting by protesters, in a continuation of the widespread backlash against his appointment, according to local media reports.
Posted: 3:15 PM "Basat al reeh." "Dulab." "Falaqa." They are Arabic names for torture techniques that send chills through the hearts of Syrians, particularly the untold thousands who are believed to have been detained during the uprising of the last 15 months.
Posted: 3:10 PM News that European intelligence agencies are searching for a so-called "clean-skin" al Qaeda operative with a European passport should not be surprising.
Posted: 3:07 PM Barclays CEO Bob Diamond and COO Jerry del Missier have resigned in the wake of the interest rate-fixing scandal that has rocked the bank.
Posted: 3:03 PM Pakistan has decided to reopen supply routes that the United States and its allies have used for their troops in Afghanistan, U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said Tuesday.
Posted: 11:04 AM Television icon Andy Griffith is dead at the age of 86, CBS News reports.
