Japan plans to double annual foreign aid to Africa by 2012, the government said yesterday, to strengthen ties with the resource-rich continent and win support for its bid for a permanent seat on the United Nations Security Council.
Google Inc on Monday unveiled Google Health, a long-anticipated US health information service that combines the leading Web company's classic search services with a user's personal health records online.
Chronic conditions such as heart disease and stroke, often associated with a Western lifestyle, have become the chief causes of death globally, the World Health Organisation (WHO) said yesterday.
They were a sailor, a bookkeeper and a factory worker, men of humble roots and distant times whose kin would run for US president in 2008.
The US military is holding about 500 juveniles suspected of being "unlawful enemy combatants" in detention centers in Iraq and has about 10 detained at the US base at Bagram, Afghanistan, the United States has told the United Nations.
A Yemeni court has sent back to jail an al-Qaida suspect on the US list of most wanted militants after his release earlier this year prompted US complaints.
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