Philippine emergency workers were struggling on Tuesday to reach coastal villages on the island hardest hit by a typhoon where thousands of homes have been wrecked, suggesting the Red Cross's estimated death toll of 27 may rise.
Forget dust-ups over reclining seats in economy class. There's a new and exclusive twist on inflight anger: Nut rage in first class.
New Delhi has decided to ban all unregistered Internet taxi firms after a female passenger said she was raped by a driver contracted to US online cab company Uber, an official said on Tuesday.
The number of people dying from malaria has been almost halved since 2000, although progress in West Africa risks being reversed by the Ebola outbreak, the World Health Organization said on Tuesday.
A South African judge delayed ruling on Tuesday on whether to allow an appeal against Oscar Pistorius' five-year prison sentence, saying she wanted more time to consider arguments.
US health regulators estimate that consumers will suffer up to $5.27 billion in "lost pleasure" over 20 years when calorie counts on restaurant menus discourage people from ordering french fries, brownies and other high-calorie favorites.
Light pours in when the retired postal worker opens the window to his bedroom. A withered old poster, an image of flowers, appears out of the shadows. "Love is enough," the poster says.
The Archbishop of Canterbury issued a report on Monday that urged Britain's government to do more to eliminate hunger among people who struggle to afford food.
It only took Turkish immigrant Hamdi Ulukaya's yogurt, Chobani, seven years to compete with some of the biggest brands in the United States such as Danone and Yoplait.
Women in headscarves and men in tatty clothes puff on a glass pipe as smoke swirls around their faces. The pictures published by Iranian media and blogs in recent months are a sign of a new drug epidemic: methamphetamine.
Syria accused Israel of bombing its main international airport on Sunday as the UN announced talks with rebel leaders on a cease-fire in Aleppo, Syria's largest city.
More than 30 humanitarian organizations launched an appeal on Monday for countries to take in about 180,000 refugees from the Syrian conflict.
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