Demands for freedom and justice sweeping the Arab world, fuelled by the power of social media, have brought an unprecedented opportunity for an improvement in human rights, Amnesty International said on Friday.
People with diabetes are at higher risk for certain cancers than those without the blood sugar disease, including colon and pancreatic cancer for men and breast cancer for women, according to a
Facebook admitted on Thursday it had hired a public relations firm to highlight supposed flaws in Google Inc's privacy practices but denied it had intended a smear campaign against the search giant.
U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates said on Thursday the military has spent about $750 million so far on operations aimed at protecting Libyan civilians from the forces of Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi.
European and IMF inspectors scrutinising Greece's budget and economic reform progress are finding shortcomings in efforts to pull the euro zone member out of a deep debt crisis, officials said on Thursday.
President Barack Obama urged businesses to "step up" and hire workers, pressing banks and other corporations to do more to help an economy that he said would take "several years" to recover
Queen Elizabeth surpassed George III on Thursday to become the second-longest reigning British monarch in more than 1,000 years of history. Only Queen Victoria — whose relatives and descendants make up a
Euro zone industrial production fell unexpectedly in March suggesting the region's economy grew slower in the first quarter than economists anticipated. The European Union's statistics office Eurostat said industrial production in the
– A little prospect of a significant pick-up in Cyprus market in 2011 Recovery is underway in the majority of European housing markets, but uncertainty remains in the region, with considerable performance
While 90% of Internet surfers in the EU prefer to access websites in their own language, 55% at least occasionally use a language other than their own when online according to a
