A feared mass extinction of wildlife also endangers billions of humans who depend on them for food and livelihood, the Rio+20 conference has heard.
Syrian troops have pounded and raided several rebel bastions across the country and clashes erupted in Homs, as two pipelines were attacked.
Ukraine’s jailed former prime minister Yulia Tymoshenko’s problems mounted after a prosecutor said he was planning to charge her for a 1996 murder.
Interpol says its biggest operation against ivory traffickers has led to more than 200 arrests and yielded nearly two tonnes of illegal ivory.
Manchester City are to begin the defence of their English Premier League title at home to newly promoted Southampton on August 18.
Malawi President Joyce Banda will shun an AU summit next month, which was moved to Ethiopia from her country, as she refused to host Omar al-Bashir.
UN decides to end its mission to Syria, as regime troops continue to kill people across the country including "rebels", civilians, woman and children.
Saudi crown prince Nayef bin Abdul Aziz, who was the twenty-third son of King Abdulaziz, and described as a hardline conservative, has passed away.
New Zealand snatched a 22-19 victory over Ireland with a desperate goal by Dan Carter in Christchurch on Saturday.
Polls opened Saturday in the second round of a divisive election to choose a successor for ousted president Hosni Mubarak.
Gambian lawyer Fatou Bensouda, who has reached the pinnacle of international justice, has a reputation as a dogged investigator.
Polish media has praised their side’s performance against foes Russia, expressing hopes that the tournament co-hosts could make the knock-out stages.
Yellow jersey contender Andy Schleck has pulled out of this year’s Tour de France due to injuries suffered in last week’s Criterium du Dauphine race.
Israel’s state watchdog is expected to deliver harsh criticism of the government’s handling of a 2010 raid on a Turkish-led flotilla.
With a single tweet, France’s first lady has managed to take a swipe at her husband’s ex and throw a spanner in the works of his Socialist party.
Yemen’s army has seized the al-Qaeda strongholds of Jaar and Zinjibar, more than a year after the jihadists captured most of Abyan province.
Sudanese rebels in the Blue Nile state repulsed an attack by government forces, which lost men and weapons in the battle, a claim the army denies.
Six men who headed up a site which taught its users to defraud people of millions of pounds have been handed jail sentences in Britain.
Six men who headed up a site which taught its users to defraud people of millions of pounds have been handed jail sentences in Britain.
Reigning US Open champ Rory McIlroy fired a five-under 65 to seize a one-stroke lead at the $5.6 million St. Jude Classic.
At least four French soldiers were killed and several wounded in a suicide attack against a convoy of Nato-led troops in eastern Afghanistan.
China will launch a spacecraft to conduct its first manned space docking the latest in a plan aimed at giving the country a permanent space station.
Chinese dissident Li Wangyang, jailed for 22 years after the 1989 Tiananmen protests, has died in strange circumstances in central China.
Maria Sharapova will meet Wimbledon champ Petra Kvitova in the French Open semis after both saw off their quarterfinal opponents with little bother.
Somalia has begun training fighters to fill the void created by having an army that comprised mostly a jumble of militia groups.
Four African migrants have been hospitalised after a deadly arson attempt on a Jerusalem building in which they were living.
President Bashar al-Assad has said that his government is faced with a foreign plot to destroy Syria.
President Bashar al-Assad has said that his government is faced with a foreign plot to destroy Syria.
Syria’s President Bashar al-Assad is to deliver a speech to the strife-torn country’s new parliament, state television reported.
The International Criminal Court has heard the worst post-poll violence in Cote d’Ivoire was committed by forces loyal to Laurent Gbagbo.
Hundreds of demonstrators have occupied Cairo’s Tahrir Square in protest against sentences handed down to Hosni Mubarak and his security chiefs.
Two MP’s from a neo-nazi party in Greece have been arrested in a second incident where the party’s leaders have been accused of attacks on foreigners.