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UNHCR calls on governments to raise refugee funds
- Countries spending billions on financial rescue packages should spend a few extra "peanuts" to fund aid programs for those worst hit by the global financial crisis, the U.N. refugee chief said Friday.
UN: 100 migrants feared drowned off Yemen
- The U.N. refugee agency says 100 migrants are feared drowned after being forced overboard by smugglers in the Gulf of Aden.
WHO probing deaths from mystery disease in SAfrica
- The U.N. health agency says it is investigating a mystery disease that killed three people in the South African city of Johannesburg.
WHO warns of mental health gap in poor countries
- The U.N. health agency says at least three in four mental health patients in developing countries receive no treatment.
Cycling body clears Armstrong for comeback race
- Cycling's governing body is relaxing its own rules to allow Lance Armstrong to make his road race comeback in Australia in January. The International Cycling Union said the seven-time Tour de France champion can compete in the Jan. 20-25 Tour Down Under, his first race since coming out of retirement after three years.
- Cycling's governing body is relaxing its own rules to allow Lance Armstrong to make his road race comeback in Australia in January. The International Cycling Union said the seven-time Tour de France champion can compete in the Jan. 20-25 Tour Down Under, his first race since coming out of retirement after three years.
Libya again stops oil deliveries to Switzerland
- Libya's state-owned oil company said that it stopped crude deliveries to Switzerland on Wednesday, three months after the arrest of Moammar Gadhafi's son in Geneva sparked a diplomatic crisis.
US retains top spot in competitiveness poll
- The U.S. still has the world's most competitive economy, despite the recent turmoil that has seen some Wall Street giants tumble and others turn to the Federal Reserve for financial bailouts, according to a survey released Wednesday.
UN says at least 5,000 flee violence in Congo
- The U.N. refugee agency says at least 5,000 people have fled violence in northeastern Congo and sought shelter in neighboring Sudan over the last two weeks.
UN: Bandits keep attacking aid workers in Chad
- The U.N. humanitarian office says aid workers in eastern Chad have been attacked by bandits over 120 times this year, hampering efforts to bring food and other relief to tens of thousands of displaced people.
Bad connection caused atom smasher shutdown
- A bad electrical connection likely caused the malfunction that sidelined the world's largest atom smasher days after it was launched with great fanfare, a senior scientist said Monday.
1 bad connection caused atom smasher shutdown
- A bad electrical connection likely caused the malfunction that sidelined the world's largest atom smasher days after it was launched with great fanfare, a senior scientist said Monday.
UN: 80 dead, 100 wounded in Somalia fighting
- The United Nations says fighting has killed at least 80 civilians in Somalia's capital over the last two weeks. More than 100 people have been injured.
Salma Hayek helping fight tetanus in moms, babies
- Hollywood mom Salma Hayek is lending her star power to a UNICEF campaign to eradicate tetanus in mothers and babies around the world within four years.
- Hollywood mom Salma Hayek is lending her star power to a UNICEF campaign to eradicate tetanus in mothers and babies around the world within four years.
