Wrapped in a purple shawl, Mirjan wanders downcast among the ruins of the Islamabad slum where she lived, newly demolished. The authorities in Pakistan’s leafy, affluent capital have declared war on the slums, largely populated by Christians and Afghan…
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Coca-Cola was taken to task by the US Supreme Court on Monday, with justices questioning whether a drink sold as fruit juice was the real thing. The US soft drinks giant is being sued by Californian fruit juice maker Pom Wonderful, who accuse Coca-Cola…
Syria has announced it will hold a June 3 presidential election, expected to return Bashar al-Assad to office, as fresh claims emerged of his regime’s use of chemical weapons. Syria’s first presidential election — after constitutional amendments scrapped…
Three men were charged in New York in connection with a $33 million scam over two decades making and selling paintings purportedly by world-famous artists but which were in fact fakes. Among the bogus works were pieces supposedly by Mark Rothko and…
16 April 2014 – A United Nations human rights panel said today that Argentine authorities failed to ensure that a…
16 April 2014 – As the FIFA World Cup in Brazil draws closer, the United Nations agency leading the response…
Ekiti State Governor, Dr kayode Fayemi will be re-elected for a second term in the June 21 governorship election in…
In furtherance of the commitment of his administration to ensuring rapid development of all parts of Ekiti State, the State…
PIC 2651 Wife of Ekiti State Governor, Erelu Bisi Fayemi (right); Baale of Odo Iro, Alhaji Mohammed Sulaiman (left), when…
Mexico bid farewell Monday to its beloved adopted son, Colombian novelist Gabriel Garcia Marquez, in a national tribute filled with the late Nobel winner’s favorite roses and music. A coffee-colored urn containing his ashes was placed on a podium, surrounded…
A year after the collapse of the Rana Plaza garment factory building left more than 1,100 dead, Washington says it remains concerned about worker safety and rights in Bangladesh. In a briefing for journalists, a group of senior US officials said progress…
Nigerian soldiers and vigilantes are hunting “around the clock” for the Islamist fighters holding scores of schoolgirls hostage, an official said Monday, as locals claimed the number kidnapped was far higher than first reported. The mass abduction blamed…
Officials say that seven more school girls have escaped from Islamic militants after a mass kidnapping. More from CNN at http://www.cnn.com/ To license this and other CNN/HLN content, visit http://imagesource.cnn.com or e-mail cnn.imagesource@turner…
Just add water and stir. A US company says its new powdered alcohol product has been approved by US regulators and is poised to hit stores in the coming months. Palcohol is made by an Arizona company called Lipsmark and will come in six varieties of…
21 April 2014 – Opposition forces in South sudan killed “hundreds of South Sudanese and foreign civilians” after determining their…
21 April 2014 – The top United Nations envoy in Somalia today condemned the murder of parliamentarian Isaak Mohamed Rino…
18 April 2014 – The Security Council on Friday voiced its outrage at the recent attacks by armed groups in…
Saudi Arabia dismissed its health minister on Monday just days after he visited a hospital at the centre of growing concerns about the kingdom’s handling of the MERS virus. Abdullah al-Rabiah was named adviser to King Abdullah and replaced by Labour…
Rebel gunmen in South Sudan massacred “hundreds” of civilians in ethnic killings when they captured the oil town of Bentiu last week, the UN said Monday, one of the worst reported atrocities in the war-torn nation. In the main mosque alone, “more than…
China’s car market is just gearing up as the world’s largest, yet automakers are already eyeing the next big thing — the market for reselling them. Their eagerness to attract buyers in the world’s largest car market is on full display at the Beijing…