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The WHO on Tuesday announced the end of the swine flu pandemic, more than a year after the disease began spreading around the world.
Scientists at the world’s biggest atom smasher near Geneva on Tuesday started colliding particles at record energy levels.
Switzerland confronted an international backlash on Monday over a shock vote to ban new minarets.
Diego Maradona was banned from all football for two months by Fifa on Sunday over his sexually-explicit rant last month.
The World Health Organisation (WHO) on Thursday warned that a new deadly infectious disease like Aids or Ebola is bound to appear in the 21st century, in a report urging more…
The United Nations Human Rights Council will open a three-week session on Monday with member states and top officials smarting from Sudan’s rebuffing a mission to assess the…
A motorist’s trip to the filling station is likely to be a complex business soon if the green marketing promises at the Geneva Motor Show, which opens on Thursday, are anything…
Television images beamed around the globe from the World Economic Forum in late January showed Davos covered by a blanket of snow that also shrouded growing concern in this and…
South African Nobel laureate Archbishop Desmond Tutu on Monday sharply criticised Israel’s failure to cooperate with a United Nations human rights fact-finding mission into the…
Africa will never climb out of poverty unless devastating health challenges such as a ”silent epidemic” of maternal and child death are tackled, the World Health Organisation…
Opec ministers headed into their Monday meeting in Vienna signalling that they would maintain the cartel’s official output ceiling against the backdrop of falling oil prices.…
Argentina took a huge step towards securing a berth in the second round of the World Cup finals by beating an unlucky Côte d’Ivoire 2-1, although the African Natons Cup…
United Nations and Red Cross agencies were meeting in Geneva on Monday to coordinate a mounting international relief effort for thousands of victims of Indonesia’s deadly…
A first taste of the tallest hills in Olympic history looms before ski jumpers at the Winter Games in the Italian Alps this weekend, unsettling even the most seasoned…
The World Trade Organisation (WTO) on Thursday decided to start membership talks with Iran after the United States lifted its long-standing opposition to Tehran’s bid, Iran’s…
United Nations Secretary General Kofi Annan sought to drum up support for his reforms of the world body on Thursday, by warning member states that human rights have entered a…
Rebellious old habits die hard in the northwestern Swiss valley of Val-de-Travers, where the alcoholic drink absinthe, nicknamed the ”green fairy”, is about to become legal…
