Source: Reuters By Jeff Franks NEW ORLEANS, Oct 3 (Reuters) - Desperate New Orleans-area officials touted Chinese-made homes and building supplies on Tuesday as a way to speed up the slow recovery of their storm- ...
Source: Reuters CAIRO, Oct 3 (Reuters) - African Union forces are not equal to task of securing Darfur and Sudan must allow them to be replaced by a bigger, better-funded U.N. peacekeeping mission, U.S. Secretary of ...
Source: Reuters (Adds more details and background) By Tom Ashby LAGOS, Oct 3 (Reuters) - Suspected militants invaded a residential compound for foreign oil workers in Nigeria on Tuesday, killing two guards and ...
Source: Reuters ISLAMABAD, Oct 4 (Reuters) - At least 1.8 million people living in makeshift shelters and tents are at risk from the Himalayan winter a year after an earthquake ravaged northern Pakistan, the ...
Source: Reuters VANCOUVER, British Columbia, Oct 3 (Reuters) - Two Canadian soldiers were killed and five wounded when they were attacked by insurgents in Afghanistan, the military said on Tuesday. The soldiers ...
Source: Reuters By Catherine Bremer MONTERREY, Mexico, Oct 3 (Reuters) - Britain told the world's worst polluting nations on Tuesday that acting now to cut emissions of heat-trapping greenhouse gases would be ...
Source: Reuters By Peter Szekely WASHINGTON, Oct 3 (Reuters) - A U.S. labor panel ruling on Tuesday expanded the number of employees who can be considered supervisors -- a decision opponents said would strip ...
Source: Reuters By Grant McCool HANOI, Oct 4 (Reuters) - Preventing disease in a developing and mostly rural country such as Vietnam can sometimes be as simple as frequently washing hands with soap. One of the ...
Source: Reuters By Sheikh Mushtaq TEETWAL, India, Oct 4 (Reuters) - When Begum Syeda recalls the horror of the devastating earthquake that shook the Himalayan region of Kashmir last October, her face turns ...
Source: Reuters Oct 4 (Reuters) - Fears that bird flu might turn into a pandemic have put the virus at the top of the Asian health agenda, but every year millions of people die in Asia from a gamut of diseases ...
Source: Reuters By Tan Ee Lyn HONG KONG, Oct 4 (Reuters) - While every human death from bird flu commands widespread attention, some experts are urging the world not to forget killer diseases such as ...
Source: Reuters By James Kilner GUDERMES, Russia, Oct 4 (Reuters) - He bounded into the marble-floored office, grinning like a TV game show host primed to crack his opening joke. But the short, stocky Chechen ...
Source: Reuters By Waheed Khan BALAKOT, Pakistan, Oct 4 (Reuters) - She cannot avoid thinking about what happened the day the earthquake struck, but 13-year-old Saadia has a mental routine for starting each school ...
Source: Reuters By Zoe Eisenstein LUANDA, Oct 4 (Reuters) - Most mornings, Pierre-Francois Pirlot takes a brisk walk down Luanda's waterfront promenade. But unlike the dozens of others there whose aim is ...
Source: Reuters By Daniel Flynn KINSHASA, Oct 4 (Reuters) - John Bofata was nine years old when his mother died and his uncles accused him of witchcraft. His father had abandoned him, leaving ...
Source: Reuters (Adds quotes, details, background) By Arshad Mohammed CAIRO, Oct 3 (Reuters) - Arab officials spoke vehemently of the need to address the Israeli-Palestinian conflict after meeting the U.S. ...
Source: Reuters By Kristin Roberts MANAGUA, Nicaragua, Oct 3 (Reuters) - U.S. Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, under fire from critics for his handling of Iraq, on Tuesday vigorously defended the U.S. war on ...
Source: Reuters WASHINGTON, Oct 3 (Reuters) - Repealing limits on Sunday sales of alcohol may lead to more alcohol-related traffic accidents and even deaths, U.S. researchers said on Tuesday. After New Mexico in ...
Source: IRIN Victims, witnesses and perpetrators of atrocities committed during Liberia's 14-year-civil war began recounting their experiences to a team from the country's Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) on Tuesday.
