Over a thousand Syrians have fled across the border into Turkey to escape violence in the last 24 hours and taken refuge in a tent camp there, a U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees spokesman said on Thursday. Syrian troops with tanks have deployed near the town of Jisr al-Shughour, prompting many of its 50,000 people

NATO, in the midst of extended air strikes in Libya, will trim the number of its major bases from 11 to seven to cut costs and duplication, the alliance said on Thursday. The move, which will include the closure of the joint force command in Lisbon — one of three such installations — and transforming

Everything is ready for the historic “Analogue Switch-off” scheduled for the 1st July 2011, according to officials participating at the 3rd Infocom.cy 2011 conference, that was held Wednesday in Nicosia. In his remarks to the meeting, Commissioner of Electronic Communications and Postal Services Polis Michaelides, of the Office of The Commissioner of Electronic Communications and

Virgin Atlantic and Cyprus Airways have signed a code sharing agreement on routes between the UK, the US and Cyprus for both carriers’ passengers. According to joint press release, issued here today, under the agreement travelers “will be able to purchase single itineraries to connect with ease between Cypriot gateway Larnaca and a variety of

Two-year-olds who are still using bottles are more likely to be obese by kindergarten, a U.S. study said, raising the possibility that weaning babies from the bottle at an earlier age may help prevent excessive weight gain. The study of nearly 7,000 U.S. children, published in the Journal of Pediatrics, found that toddlers who still

German carmaker BMW will invest 500 million pounds ($819 million) in Britain over the next three years, mostly on facilities to build next-generation Minis. "We have started preparing our UK plants for production of the next generation Mini and this investment underlines that the UK will remain the heart of Mini production," BMW said on

Millions of children's lives and billions of dollars could be saved if vaccines were more widely available in 72 of the world's poorest countries, according to research published on Thursday. In a series of studies in the Health Affairs journal, public health experts and scientists projected that if 90 percent of children in those countries

Fed up with having no driver to ferry her to hospital, Shaima Osama decided to take matters into her own hands and drive there herself, an act of defiance in a country where women are banned from sitting behind the wheel. Emboldened by the winds of change sweeping the Arab world, which has toppled leaders

Islamic trade finance has benefitted from shifting preferences towards Sharia-compliant banking and could serve as one of the key growth drivers to help the nearly $1 trillion Islamic finance industry double in size. The global Islamic finance industry, which has been growing between 15 to 20 percent a year, is widely expected to reach $2

Germany expects the death toll from the E.coli outbreak to rise although the number of new infections from the virulent strain of bacteria that has killed 24 people is likely to drop, the government said on Wednesday. "There will be new cases and unfortunately we have to expect more deaths, but the number of new