Pakistani President to visit flood-hit Sindh

Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari has flown to a flood-hit areas of the country for a first look at the crisis two weeks old, says his spokesman. The visit follows recent criticism of his trip abroad and the perceived slow response to the disaster,...

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Amazon forest fires 'on the rise'

The number of fire destroying the Amazon rainforests is increasing, studies have found.A team of scientists in the region said the fire may release similar amounts of carbon as a deliberate deforestation.Writing in Science, they said fire occurrence...

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Climate change made apes vanish in ancient Europe

Great apes were swept away in the old Europe, when their environment changed dramatically around nine million years ago, scientists say.A study of fossil teeth of grazing animals sheds light on what Europe was like during the late Miocene.Researchers...

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US missile 'used in Yemen raid'

American missiles were used in a raid against al-Qaida in Yemen, where women and children died in December, the rights group Amnesty International says.Amnesty has released images taken after the raid, which he says shows remnants of a US-made Tomahawk...

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Kouchner and Hague pressure Israel over Gaza

The EU could play a greater role in ensuring aid gets into Gaza and weapons are banned, the French Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner said.He urged Israel to an international investigation into the deaths of nine activists to accept a Turkish aid ship.He...

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Gene test hope for personalised cancer therapy

NHS patients are offered personalized cancer treatment under a pilot project to conduct genetic testing on individual tumors.Cancer Research UK hope the project will be up to 6,000 cancer patients per year for a series of genetic defects to be analyzed.The...

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Pakistan rules out offensive against Punjab militants

Pakistani Interior Minister Rehman Malik has stressed that no plans for military action against militants in Punjab province.His remarks came hours after he told a parliamentary committee that "Punjabi Taliban" were entrenched in the south of Punjab.Malik...

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India's bureaucracy is 'the most stifling in the world'

A new report has confirmed what many had long suspected Indians - their country's bureaucratic system is one of the most oppressive in the world.The Hong Kong-based group, political and economic risk consultancy, studied more than 100 business executives...

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Emotion high as Turkey buries its Gaza flotilla dead

Emotions are running high in Turkey over the funerals of nine activists of Turkish or of Turkish origin, was killed in Israel raid on Gaza to help the fleet.The bodies were flown from Israel to Istanbul, along with more than 450 activists, heroes...

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