Diplomats say seven key nations agreed on new United Nations (U.N.) sanctions against North Korea for conducting a second nuclear test, according to a report on Los Angles Times website.
What was supposed to be a pleasant surprise, turned into the shock of a lifetime. A woman in Tel Aviv, Israel, gave her elderly mother a new mattress as a surprise gift; throwing out the old tattered bed her mother had slept on for decades.
The Obama administration\'s focus on building coalitions may spur more global arms sales for the world\'s leading weapons exporter, a welcome prospect for U.S. defence contractors facing a shirking defence budget at home.
The World Health Organization (WHO) is on the verge of declaring the first influenza pandemic in more than 40 years, according to a report by Stephanie Nebehay on the Reuters website.
A judge in the US state of Maryland has sentenced a 47 year old man to more than 12 years in prison for conspiracy to import drugs from Barbados and Dominica.
US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has ordered a review of State Department security practices after a former employee and his wife were accused of spying for Cuba last week.
The Mayor of New Orleans Ray Nagin has been quarantined in a Shanghai hotel, after a passenger on his flight from the US fell ill with suspected swine flu.
A former State Department official and his wife have been arrested and charged with being spies for the Cuban government for the past 30 years, according to a release by the United States Department of Justice (U.S.D.O.J).
A Brazilian Air Force official is reporting that debris recovered from the Atlantic by Brazilian search teams did not come from the lost Air France jet.
The United Nations Children’s Fund, UNICEF, is warning that the upcoming rainy season is likely to worsen the cholera crisis which has already killed more than 4,000 Zimbabweans.
