New vaccine offers chance for children in Africa, where 1 million die of malaria each year. A mother watched with dread as a nurse inserted a tube in her baby's head. Blood streamed into the anemic 4-month-old who already has malaria, the mosquito-borne disease that kills a million African children every year.
Exiled group says nuclear inspectors must heed warning on alleged Iranian site for detonators. An exiled Iranian opposition group called on the U.N. nuclear agency Tuesday to waste no time in examining a hidden site near Tehran that it claims is used to help build nuclear detonators.
British police release video on what missing girl Madeleine McCann could look like now. British police on Tuesday released a new video imagining what missing girl Madeleine McCann would look like now, at age six, and urged Internet users to spread the pictures as widely as they can.
MARRAKESH, Morocco (Reuters) - U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton offered aid on Tuesday to boost ties with the Muslim world and urged Israel, the Palestinians and Arab countries to move beyond recrimination in the search for peace.
20 years after its fall, remaining stretch of Berlin Wall gets facelift. Stroke by stroke, Gerhard Kriedner applied pink acrylic paint with a small brush on a 14-yard stretch of the Berlin Wall, recreating the mural he first painted months after the Berlin Wall came down on Nov. 9, 1989.
Police in China's far west launch crackdown, hunt riot suspects. Police in China's far west have stepped up a hunt for people who took part in deadly ethnic riots there four months ago and other so-called terrorists, the regional public security ministry said Tuesday.
Global wages falling this year despite indications of economic recovery, UN labor agency says. Real wages fell in the United States and some other wealthy nations in the second quarter of the year, raising questions about whether workers are sharing in any economic recovery, the U.N. labor agency said Tuesday.
Lizards, rodent and tree frog join over 17,000 others on 'Red List' of endangered species. A rare Panamanian tree frog, a rodent from Madagascar and two lizards found only in the Philippines are among over 17,000 species threatened with extinction, a leading environmental group said Tuesday.
NEW YORK (Reuters) - U.S. stock index futures fell on Tuesday as the deal by Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway to buy railroad company Burlington Northern was offset by poor results from Swiss lender UBS and a shake-up at two big British banks.
TEHRAN (Reuters) - Iranian police warned the opposition on Tuesday to avoid using the 30th anniversary of the U.S. embassy takeover in Tehran to revive protests against the clerical establishment, the official IRNA news agency reported.
LONDON (Reuters) - Group of 20 financial leaders will seek to firm up a plan to rebalance the world economy when they meet this week, looking to beat out how to set national policy goals and make sure everyone keeps to them, officials said on Monday.
Reports: Italy's Berlusconi seeks to postpone reopening of his fraud trial in Milan. Italian news reports say Premier Silvio Berlusconi is seeking to postpone the resumption of his fraud trial in Milan.
Actress Kate Winslet accepts damages from British newspaper over exercise story. Lawyers for Kate Winslet say the actress has accepted 25,000 pounds (more than $40,000) in damages after the Daily Mail falsely reported in January she lied about her exercise regime.
ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - A majority of Pakistanis support military action against Islamist militants although more people blame the United States for the violence than blame the Taliban, a poll released on Tuesday showed.
KIGALI (Reuters) - The United Nations genocide court in Tanzania is reneging on its promise to transfer Rwandan convicts to serve the remainder of their sentences in their homeland, Rwanda's justice minister said.
Into North Korean nuclear tangle steps France, with diplomatic mission that puzzles US. Nicolas Sarkozy is once again wading into international diplomacy. After trying a hand at Mideast peace, raising France's profile on Iran and reaching out to Cuba, he's homing in on another problem long seen as Washington's to solve: North Korea.
DAKAR (Reuters) - Equatorial Guinea has pardoned British mercenary Simon Mann for his role in a failed 2004 coup plot, allowing him to seek medical treatment after serving just over one year of a 34-year sentence.
Philippine troops kill 5 al-Qaida-linked militants in clash in country's restive south. Government troops attacked an Abu Sayyaf camp in the rebels' southern stronghold before dawn Tuesday, triggering a five-hour clash in which five of the al-Qaida-linked militants were killed and one government militiaman was wounded, the military said.
Report: Iraqi families returning home are struggling to find work, intact places to live. The International Organization for Migration says nearly 350,000 displaced Iraqis have returned to their homes but are now suffering from widespread unemployment and lack of resources.
Clinton emphasizes US commitment to Mideast peace, urges all parties to avoid recriminations. U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton on Tuesday urged Arabs and Israelis to set aside their historical differences, avoid inflammatory rhetoric and recommit to attaining a comprehensive peace in the Middle East.
State media say a 32-year-old Russian man has become the first foreigner to die from swine flu in mainland China.
Beijing says Dalai Lama trip to Indian state shows anti-China bias. China said it expressed grave concern to India about a visit by the Dalai Lama to a state in the country's northeast at the heart of a long-running border dispute, saying it showed an anti-China bias.
TEHRAN (Reuters) - Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said on Tuesday the Islamic state would not be deceived into reconciliation with its arch foe and the United States was a "really arrogant power," state radio reported.
At least 10 people, including infant, killed in train collision in Pakistan. A passenger train rammed into a cargo train outside of the southern city of Karachi on Tuesday after the driver apparently missed a signal to stop, killing 10 people including an infant, officials said.
BEIJING (Reuters) - China on Tuesday accused the Dalai Lama of seeking to undermine Beijing's relationship with Delhi through a visit to a disputed border region, insulating India's government from direct Chinese wrath over the dispute.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A magnitude 5.9 quake struck off Greece on Tuesday, the U.S. Geological Survey reported.
Panamanian government building 4 air, sea monitoring stations to fight drug trafficking. Panama's government is building four air and sea monitoring stations to fight trafficking of drugs, weapons and migrants.
`Grave fears' held for suspected asylum seekers whose boat sank in Indian Ocean. Planes and ships searching a remote patch of the Indian Ocean found no signs Tuesday of additional survivors from the sinking of a suspected asylum-seeker boat. Eleven people were believed missing, while 27 were rescued.
BEIJING (Reuters) - Chinese forces have launched a "strike hard" security campaign in the restless far western region of Xinjiang, vowing to wipe out lawlessness and "change the face" of the public security situation there.
Guinea coup leader says he "regrets" massacre. The man who led Guinea's most recent coup says he "bitterly regrets" the deaths of civilians who were gunned down by soldiers at a protest last month.
Gunman kills opposition politician in Venezuela, police investigating. Venezuelan authorities are investigating the shooting death of an opponent of President Hugo Chavez.
Evangelical march draws 1.5 million for day of worship, music in Brazil's second biggest city. About 1.5 million evangelical Christians joined Brazil's annual "March for Jesus" on Monday, an event sponsored by a church whose leaders recently returned after being imprisoned in the U.S. for money smuggling.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - An outbreak of food-borne illness, linked to dangerous bacteria in ground beef, sickened 28 people and may have caused two deaths in the U.S. Northeast, health officials said on Monday.
Venezuela says 2 National Guard soldiers shot to death near border with Colombia. Two soldiers in Venezuela's National Guard have been shot to death near the border with Colombia.
Lizards, rodent and newly-discovered tree frog added to 'Red List' of endangered species. A rare tree frog found only in central Panama could soon croak its last, as deforestation and infection push the species toward extinction, an environmental group said Tuesday.
London shares ended higher on Wednesday as the stock market posted strong gains on positive US data.
The most senior US official to visit Myanmar for nearly a decade and a half was due to meet the military-ruled nation's prime minister Wednesday as Washington seeks to improve ties with the ruling junta.
Pretend terrorists released fake radioactive poison here Tuesday in a mock attack staged to prepare authorities for the real thing during the 2010 Olympic Games.
Canada's Magna Tuesday bowed to a decision by US giant automaker General Motors to halt its purchase of GM's European division Opel, saying it would continue to support the two companies.
The head of Iraq's Independent High Electoral Commission warned that Thursday is the deadline for parliament to adopt an electoral law if January's general election is to be held on time.
US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, facing an Arab backlash over her praise for Israel's offer to ease settlement growth, arrived in Cairo on Tuesday for hastily convened talks with President Hosni Mubarak.
US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, facing an Arab backlash over her praise for Israel's offer to ease settlement growth, arrived in Cairo on Tuesday for hastily convened talks with President Hosni Mubarak.
The Republican opposition hoped to draw blood Tuesday in three off-year elections seen as testing US President Barack Obama's popularity 12 months after his Democratic party swept to power.
Czech President Vaclav Klaus gave Tuesday the long-awaited final seal of approval to the European Union's reforming Lisbon Treaty, clearing the way for the bloc to find a new president.
Survivors of the Darfur conflict will no longer be deported from Britain, the government said Tuesday, after concerns about a deterioration in conditions in the Sudanese capital.
The United States plays an "indispensable" role in Asia despite the rise of China and India and should be part of any new regional group, Singapore Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong said Tuesday.
Fiji's military leader Voreqe Bainimarama Tuesday expelled the Australian and New Zealand envoys over alleged interference in his country's judiciary.
Several of a group of 76 Sri Lankan asylum seekers picked up off the Canadian coast last month have ties to the Tamil Tiger rebels and could pose a security risk, officials said Tuesday.
Iran's supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei lashed out at the United States on Tuesday, saying Tehran will reject any talks backed by its arch-foe because Washington is not to be trusted.
Israel's prime minister on Tuesday hailed a joint anti-missile exercise with US forces, amid continuing high tensions with Iran, amid claims that Hamas now has rockets capable of hitting Tel Aviv.
