One day closer to an ever-approaching deadline to achieve the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon announced a Joint Action Plan to improve reproductive, maternal and newborn health on Wednesday, flanked by international leaders and development experts.

Fighting between 'Enyélé' insurgents and regular armed forces in the northwestern Democratic Republic of Congo at the beginning of April left 18 people dead, including nine rebels, and triggered mass displacements from the region's principal city, Mbandaka.

The rising number of civilian casualties in the military operations against the Taliban in Pakistan’s northern provinces has become an early difficulty for a new government project for the disabled.

The colour green has long been associated with Islam, but if some recent Muslim visitors here could have their way, it’s a link that could intensify some more in the future.

Adapt at navigating through politically sensitive anniversaries, the Chinese government has one more socially volatile date marked in its calendar: this year’s 30th anniversary of its one-child policy.

Sudan's National Electoral Commission says problems are limited to a few constituencies. But election monitors have observed irregularities across the country.

Polling will be postponed in some constituencies in Sudan where technical irregularities marred the voting process, the country’s electoral commission says.

The black, curvy London cab is so much more than a just taxi. It is an icon without which the picture of London can never be complete.

Invoking the principle of universal jurisdiction for crimes against humanity, the relatives of two Spanish mayors who were executed during that country's 1936-1939 civil war filed genocide charges in Argentina Wednesday.

The past two weeks have been marked by major foreign policy accomplishments for U.S. President Barack Obama, including the Nuclear Posture Review (NPR), the signing of a new Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty, and what appear to be improvements in the increasingly tense Washington-Beijing relationship.