EU's second-highest court, Luxembourg-based European Court of First Instance, overruled a 2002 decision of the Council of the EU, Bulgaria's Sofia Echo Media reports.

For the past few years, Rio De Janeiro, Brazil has been at the center of a resurgence of the disease in South America.

With the commitment from French President Nicolas Sarkozy, American troops would be able to join the Canadian solders at Kandahar where the troops are fighting Taliban insurgents.

Hu, 34, is well-known for his campaigns against HIV/AIDS and has been a staunch critic of the Chinese crackdown in Tibet. Hu, the second dissident to be jailed in less than two weeks, was arrested for posting articles on the

The number of consumers defaulting on consumer loans increased in the fourth quarter, the survey report indicated on Thursday.

The ATV is so much more than a simple delivery truck, it is an intelligent and versatile spaceship which has just demonstrated its extraordinary skills," the ESA's Director for Human Spaceflight, Microgravity and Exploration Daniel Sacotte said. "It is the

The Pontiff has scheduled a brief stop at Park East Synagogue on April 18 to see Rabbi Arthur Schneier, a Holocaust survivor who later emigrated to the US, after his UN address in the morning. The audience with Rabbi Schneier

Ethiopia's moves against terrorism in the Horn of Africa contribute significantly for international peace, Ethiopian Institute for International Peace and Development (EIIPD) said.

Human rights groups yesterday said they were opposed to the Anti-terrorism Bill 2006.

The U.S. Treasury Department issued voluntary guidelines for U.S.-based charities to follow to avoid connections to terrorist individuals or organizations.

Clerics yesterday criticised Muslim MPs for remaining silent when Muslims were being harassed by security agents under the guise of fighting terror.

Jailed former army commander James Kazini is ready to serve his prison sentence and has scoffed at suggestions that he secures the intervention of President Yoweri Museveni for an early release.

THE Ijaw Monitoring Group has condemned attack on the residence of Chief Owazi Wills by men suspected to be members of the joint task force under the guise of looking for arms and ammunition.

The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) today called on Moroccan authorities to investigate an attack on Mohamed Daw Serraj, a journalist and general secretary of the Syndicat National de la Presse Marocaine (SNPM), who sustained head injuries after two men

Angry traders Thursday blocked the busy Nairobi-Mombasa highway as they protested at increased cases of robbery in Machakos Town and its environs.

A notorious gangster was Thursday flushed out of his hideout after going into hiding with bullets lodged in his body for four weeks.

CHAIRMAN of the Nigeria Union of Teachers (NUT) in Delta State, Comrade Jonathan Ojobu, has alerted the Governor over existence of ghost workers within the state's primary school system, even as the Chairman of the Academic Staff Union of Secondary

The Independent Corrupt Practices and Related Offences Commission (ICPC) has so far recovered the sum of N10million of the N35 million unspent money of the National Population Commission a Director and three officials attached to the Office of the Accountant

BARELY 48 hours after Mr Henry Idahagbon, the counsel representing, Mr. Ehi Egharevba, the Chairman of Egor Local Government Council of Edo State at the Local Government Election Petition Tribunal announced his withdrawal from the case over alleged threats to

Violence was relatively low in the run-up to local elections on 29 March in Nigeria's oil-rich Rivers State but with evidence emerging of massive voting irregularities in favour of the ruling party, human rights groups warn the worst may not