The Philippines is seeking to turn around its economy from decades of subpar performance.
On Friday, the official campaign in DR Congo commenced.
By Monday, a mother will give birth to the seven billionth human living on Earth, experts predict.
An Israeli man who lives in Brooklyn pleaded guilty on Thursday to charges of brokering a kidney transplant as of a black market organ business. This is the first human organ trafficking conviction in the United States.
Rescuers pulled out a teenage boy alive from the debris of a collapsed building in Ercis in eastern Turkey Friday, five days after a 7.2-magnitude quake rocked the region.
The official death toll from the Van, Turkey earthquake last Sunday has risen to 500 people, but while rescue teams find more bodies and people whose homes were destroyed sleeping outside on snowy nights, the world has turned its attention to the relationship between Turkey and Israel.
With Moammar Gadhafi now dead and buried, Libya begins the rebuilding process and plans for the future.
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton didn't mince words Sunday when she called Iran a military dictatorship and issued a fiery warning that it stay out of Iraq after the United States completes its pullout of troops this year.
A delegation from the Arab League, tasked with helping end the violence in Syria, met Wednesday with Syrian President Bashar al-Assad to facilitate the ceasefire demanded by the Arab nations in a resolution last week.
As the global population is about to cross seven billion, experts are warning that skewed gender ratio could be a major concern.
According to a report by the United Nations, global population will reach seven billion, within the next five days.
Saif al-Islam Gaddafi, who once vowed to die fighting on Libyan soil, now wants to face international justice instead and avoid any chance of meeting the same grisly end as his father, Libyan officials said.
Both Gadhafi and the revolutionaries who expelled him have been called war criminals. So who is worse?
On Oct. 31, the world's population will reach seven billion. The seven billion milestone with projections of more growth, said Babatunde Ostimehin, executive director of the United Nations Population Fund, is a challenge, an opportunity and a call to action. Global population will reach seven billion on Oct. 31, with another billion people projected on Earth by the year 2025. The world's population is projected to reach 10 billion by the end of this century.
The Palestinians will seek a vote on their bid for full membership of UNESCO next week, Foreign Minister Riyal al-Malki said on Wednesday, despite what he called U.S. threats to pull funding from the U.N. cultural agency.
NATO has postponed until later this week a meeting that had been expected to formalise a decision to conclude the alliance's Libya mission at the end of the month after Libyan officials called for it to be kept going for longer.
President Robert Mugabe of Zimbabwe has been forced to cancel a trip to Geneva for a United Nations meeting this week after his wife and some of his aides were denied visas, state media said on Wednesday.
The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) has put off making a final decision on whether it will end its military presence in Libya as discussions continued Wednesday with the United Nations and the country's interim government over how and when it to wind down the operation, The Associated Press reported.
The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge plan to visit UNICEF's centre in Denmark for distributing food and medical supplies to East Africa coming Wednesday.
In a lengthy statement, the Vatican's Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace called for far-reaching reforms of the global economy to create a system that serves the common good of all nations and economic classes.
As Moammar Gadhafi's body is buried in the dessert under an unmarked grave, his son and one time heir Saif al-Islam Gadhafi is preparing to flee Libya, a member of the National Transitional Council has revealed.
Mauritania's current economic growth rate is not high enough to significantly dent poverty and the country will next year face the twin challenge of drought and uncertainty over mining revenues, the International Monetary Fund said.
