Designs that up the ante of the everyday
The minister has to answer to the president after a picture was posted of her apparently breaking lockdown rules
With an average of more than 120 illegally trafficked tigers seized each year, Traffic warned there was little sign of respite for the species.
A large majority of countries voted in Geneva to prohibit the transfer of elephants caught in the wild to so-called captive facilities
She locked officials in a boardroom for five hours when some employees didn’t attend a meeting
High-stakes talks between Iran and global powers on reining in its nuclear programme will stretch into a third day in Geneva.
Treaty likely to be finalised soon.
North Korea and the US will hold new talks in Geneva to discuss ways to restart regional talks on disabling North Korea nuclear weapons programme.
The world’s biggest atom smasher has set a new world record for luminosity, a key measure of performance and power, Cern said on Friday.
Thousands of strange inventions are on display at the world’s biggest invention fair, including a kangaroo tail for chairless humans who need a rest.
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The ”Big Bang” experiment at Cern scored a world record on Monday by accelerating beams to the highest energy ever achieved in a particle collider.
About 150 nations met in Geneva on Monday to discuss how to plug gaps in climate information to help the world cope with global warming.
The WHO will on Thursday consult its emergency committee of flu experts, which could recommend the declaration of a swine flu pandemic.
The UN said on Friday that the number of deaths in Sri Lanka’s civil war in recent months was ”unacceptably high”, but declined to give figures.
Countries should be ready for more serious H1N1 flu infections and more deaths from the newly discovered virus, the WHO said on Friday.
Mexico’s swine flu death toll has risen by four as the virus continues to spread through Latin America and makes inroads in Asia.
Japan said on Sunday that 13 more students had tested positive for swine flu, as officials gathered in Geneva for talks on how to contain the virus.
Diplomats at the UN sought on Tuesday to advance an anti-racism declaration and brush off comments from Iran’s president that prompted a walkout.
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Beneath the rural tranquillity of the Geneva countryside, scientists are getting ready for a trip into the unknown.
Experts met in Geneva on Monday to consider ways of stopping scientific advances being converted into more lethal biological weapons.
Poorer countries are divided over plans for a new trade deal, with developing country importers pitted against exporters pushing for liberalisation.
Ministers from more than 30 countries, deeply divided and clinging to core interests, mount another bid on Monday to nail down a global trade accord.
Cross-border air freight traffic grew a meagre 1,3% year-on-year in May, according to airline industry figures released on Wednesday.
Turkey staged one of the greatest comebacks in a major tournament, scoring three times in the last 15 minutes to beat Czech Republic 3-2 on Sunday.
Turkey and Czech Republic take centre stage on Sunday while Switzerland and Portugal meet in a match with little at stake except pride.
World Cup winners Italy and runners-up France were in danger of tumbling out of Euro 2008 at the group stage after the Italians were held 1-1.
The United Nations independent expert on racism urged South Africa on Friday to bring to justice those responsible for recent xenophobic violence that claimed more than 50 lives this month. ”I condemn these acts in the strongest terms,” special rapporteur Doudou Diene said as he called on South African authorities to bring the perpetrators to justice.
The United Nations’s top human rights official on Wednesday issued a strong condemnation of the killing of opposition political activists in Zimbabwe. ”It is hard to get a very precise picture of the full range of the violence, or the exact number of politically motivated extra-judicial killings,” said Louise Arbour, the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights.
A World Trade Organisation (WTO) mediator issued new proposals on Monday for opening up services such as telecoms and banking as part of a global trade deal. But the new text, replacing a previous document issued in February, did not set dates for revised offers or final commitments in the services negotiations.
The World Health Organisation’s 193 member states on Saturday overcame their deep divisions over intellectual property rules and endorsed a strategy to help improve developing-country access to drugs and medical tests.
Archbishop Desmond Tutu on Tuesday appealed to governments to do more to save Africa from disease. ”We cannot lose Africa,” Tutu told the 193-nation World Health Assembly. ”The cradle of humankind” is threatened by ”disease, conflict and destruction”.
Insufficient food, climate change and pandemic flu are global crises that could unravel progress in public health, the World Health Organisation’s (WHO) director general said on Monday. "These three critical events, these clear threats to international security, have the potential to undo much hard-won progress in public health," WHO director general Margaret Chan said.