Forced marriage law 'being used'
New powers to protect suspected forced marriage victims have been used six times since the law was introduced, BBC Asian Network finds.
Strong Costa Rica quake kills two girls
Two girls died in a landslide Thursday triggered by a 6.1-magnitude earthquake that struck near Costa Rica's capital of San Jose, the National Emergency Commission of Costa Rica said.
Chinese selling cheap cars in Mexico
China Photos/Employees on the assembly line produce cars in Mazda's 'Family' line of vehicles at China First Automobile Works (FAW) Group Haima Automobile Co., Ltd. FAW Group Corp., one of China's three largest domestic auto manufacturers, has begun
Bioengineering students use research talents to aid disabled Africans
Mona Aoufe wants whatever endeavors she pursues in her future career to be as fulfilling as her final major assignment to earn an undergraduate engineering degree at Arizona State .She joined about 20 students in the Harrington Department of
Tanzania on Ebola alert
Tanzania dispatched health officials to regions bordering the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) to contain a suspected Ebola outbreak, officials said. 'Experts have been deployed to five regions closer to the DRC, which are Mbeya, Kagera, Rukwa, Kigoma
Saving Zimbabwe
Over the Christmas and New Year break I have run into a number of people from Africa with friends or relatives in Zimbabwe. The stories are horrifying and it is clear that this country is very close to or in a state of genocide. Houses are being
S.Africa Manufacturing Output Decline Worsens In November
(RTTNews) - Thursday, the Statistics South Africa announced that the volume of manufacturing production declined 4.4% year-over-year in November, after falling 1.8% in October. On a monthly basis, the manufacturing production dropped 3% in November,
Chinese minister to visit Africa
Beijing: Chinese Foreign Minister Yang Jiechi will soon pay an official visit to Africa, the government said yesterday, in what has become a New Year ritual amid China?s courtship of the continent. ?At the beginning of every year China?s foreign
UNESCO: 160 mln Africans can't read and write
LAGOS, Jan. 8 (Xinhua) -- At least 160 million adults in Africa, two-thirds of them women, are illiterate, UNESCO Director-General Koichiro Matsuura said on Wednesday in Lagos. This has posed a lot of challenges to the United Nations Educational,
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