Last week’s earthquake, which caused an estimated $15-billion in damage to Christchurch, has become New Zealand’s most expensive natural disaster.
Start-up SocialEyes on Monday introduced a service that lets people have one-on-one or group video chats with friends from Facebook.
International crime syndicates are increasingly using social networking sites such as Facebook to lure Filipinos into becoming drug mules.
Britain blocked a $60-million sale of helicopters, armoured cars and machine guns to Swaziland.
In the absence of a basic drug such as paracetamol in Zimbabwe’s debilitating health care system, desperate patients have turned to traditional herbs.
Confusion surrounded UN charges on Monday that Belarus had broken an arms embargo against Côte d’Ivoire by delivering helicopters to Laurent Gbagbo.
Hollywood siren shot to fame in Howard Hughes’s film <em>The Outlaw</em>.
The Hollywood siren, who shot to fame in Howard Hughes’s film <em>The Outlaw</em>, died at her home in California.
New Zealand will fall silent on Tuesday to mark the moment an earthquake killed at least 154 people and shattered the city of Christchurch a week ago.
Another dissident critic of President Robert Mugabe was arrested, while police defied a court order to give medical help to 12 others, lawyers say.