Reading Time: < 1 minuteThe University of Auckland compared 155 women who had late still-births with 310 who had healthy pregnancies.
Reading Time: < 1 minuteThe agency said as credit becomes more restricted there was a possibility of a downturn in the sector.
Reading Time: 2 minutesThe eruption, which began on 4 June, has caused levels of flight disruption not seen since an Icelandic volcano paralysed Europe in 2010.
Reading Time: 2 minutesNato dropped leaflets on Zlitan, just west of Misrata, urging government troops to abandon their posts.
Reading Time: 3 minutesUnder Soviet rule, several waves of deportations of Moldovas native population were carried out: the first one just months before the outbreak of...
Reading Time: 2 minutes“Today, Russia’s minimum objective in Moldova is to create a second Kaliningrad in the South to keep the Republic of Moldova and Ukraine...
Reading Time: 9 minutesWitness written testimony of Mr. Vlad Spanu, President of the Moldova Foundation in Washington, D.C. The United States Helsinki Commission’s briefing “Prospects for...
Reading Time: 3 minutesWith the cost of getting products onto the shelves rising higher and higher, some suppliers are reducing the size of their wares while...
Reading Time: 2 minutesReal wages meanwhile fell by more than a third, the UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) said.
Reading Time: 3 minutesSyrian government forces have advanced into the northern town of Jisr al-Shughour, state media say, as part of a widespread government crackdown.
Reading Time: < 1 minuteA teenager from a poor family in the rural Philippines has been declared the worlds shortest man as he turned 18.
Reading Time: < 1 minuteA 10-year old Wearside girl has had emergency surgery after becoming impaled on metal railings.
Reading Time: 2 minutesPeople in Turkey have voted in a general election, with Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan expected to win a third term in office.
Reading Time: < 1 minuteThe Palestinian Islamist movement Hamas has rejected its rival Fatahs nomination of Salam Fayyad as prime minister in a transitional government.
Reading Time: 2 minutesPolice in southern China say they have arrested 25 people after clashes between residents and security forces near the city of Guangzhou.
Reading Time: 2 minutesQantas has cancelled all its flights in and out of Melbourne, Australia, because of ash drifting over the Pacific Ocean from a volcano...
Reading Time: 2 minutesFazul Abdullah Mohammed, suspected of having played a key role in the 1998 US embassy bombings in East Africa, has been killed in...
Reading Time: < 1 minuteTwo mountain peaks in the Austrian Alps have been put up for sale for 121,000 euros (£107,000; $170,000).
Reading Time: < 1 minuteSomali Interior Minister Abdi Shakur Sheikh Hassan has been killed in a suicide attack at his home in the capital, Mogadishu.
Reading Time: 1 minuteColombia has passed a controversial law which aims to compensate an estimated four million victims of the countrys long-running armed conflict.