A Paris court on Monday ordered nearly 12,000 euros ($16,500) in compensation to be paid to a man who rented a “broom closet” for 15 years. The court in Paris’s 11th district said the owner of the tiny flat and its property manager had violated city…
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People who use electronic cigarettes do not report higher rates of quitting than regular cigarette smokers, according to a US study out Monday. The findings were based on survey answers from 949 smokers, reported in a research letter to the Journal…
A second straight sell-off of popular technology shares dragged US stocks lower Monday, as tensions with Russia over Ukraine kept investors on edge. At the closing bell the Dow Jones Industrial Average was down 25.88 points (0.16 percent) at 16,276.…
A Zambian minister on Monday sounded the alarm over the condition of the Kariba Dam as he appealed for hundreds of millions of dollars to pay for urgent repairs. The hydro-electric dam’s wall, which is 128 metres (420 feet) high, must to be repaired…
The Group of Seven top economic powers said Monday they are ready to step up sanctions against Russia if Moscow fails to de-escalate the crisis in Ukraine that has shaken relations. “We remain ready to intensify actions including coordinated sectoral…
A court sentenced 529 supporters of deposed Islamist president Mohamed Morsi to death on Monday after just two hearings, in the largest mass death sentencing in Egypt’s modern history. Legal experts said the shock verdict would likely be overturned…
Scores of rioters went on the rampage on Monday outside an abandoned building in Nigeria dubbed the “House of Horror” after decomposing human remains and skeletons were found there. At least 20 people were injured and 12 vehicles damaged when about…
24 March 2014 – The United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) warns today that despite notable recent economic progress,…
24 March 2014 – The United Nations refugee agency said today it was shocked and saddened by the deaths of…
24 March 2014 – The African Union-United Nations peacekeeping mission in Sudan’s Darfur region is providing protection to thousands of…
London shares ended slightly lower on Monday, with mining stocks weighing on the benchmark FTSE index after fresh data provided further evidence of a cooling Chinese economy. The FTSE closed 36.78 points — or 0.56 percent — down at 6,520.39 points…
MOGADISHU, Somalia, March 24, 2014/African Press Organization (APO)/ — The Special Representative of the Secretary-General (SRSG) for Somalia, Nicholas Kay,…
NEW YORK, March 24, 2014/African Press Organization (APO)/ — [AS DELIVERED] Your Excellency, Chairperson of the Peace and Security Council,…
JOHANNESBURG, South-Africa, March 24, 2014/African Press Organization (APO)/ — The Lake Turkana Wind Power Project (http://ltwp.co.ke) meant to add an…
MAPUTO, Mozambique, March 24, 2014/African Press Organization (APO)/ — Mozambique’s discovery of the 4th largest gas reserves in the world,…
Back in December, news got out about Google’s big push to enter the field of robotics: former Android boss Andy Rubin was promoted to head the robotics division, while the company scooped up bunches of robotics companies in the United States and Asia…
IBM’s Big Data analytics to help crack the code of the tuberculosis genome and uncover new diagnosis and treatment approaches IBM Corporation logo. (PRNewsFoto/IBM Corporation) DURBAN, South Africa, March 24, 2014 /PRNewswire/ — On World Tuberculosis…
Gunmen have killed 13 people in an attack on a farming community in central Nigeria in the latest deadly violence to rip through the region, police said on Monday. A further 10 people were injured in the shooting in the village of Gbajimba on Sunday…
Boko Haram has claimed responsibility for an attack on a key military barracks in the northeastern city of Maiduguri, in a new video obtained on Monday by AFP that warns of further bloodshed, including against civilians. “We carried out the attacks…
TUNIS, Tunisia, March 24, 2014/African Press Organization (APO)/ — Despite important economic progress and agricultural successes, Africa remains the world’s…