The European Union is providing EC$17 million (US$6.29 million) in financial assistance to Dominica as part of a global crisis package....read more

Prime Minister Jean-Max Bellerive says Haiti has only received 10 per cent of the US$5.3 billion pledged by governments to assist his country rebuild following the massive earthquake ...read more

A typhoon was expected to make landfall on the Philippines late Tuesday, CNN meteorologists say....read more

Lawyers representing persons who have been detained under the state of emergency say they are concerned that their clients have not been provided with all the details surrounding their arrest....read more

The humanitarian needs of people affected by the January 12 earthquake in Haiti remain immense, United Nations agencies and their partners said in a report released here on Monday....read more

India successfully launched five satellites into orbit Monday, one of them a mini-spacecraft built by students, space officials said. ...read more

A new sealing cap could cover the well that's been leaking in the Gulf of Mexico since April 20 as early as Monday, the man in charge of the federal response team...read more

Three Britons recruited as suicide bombers in an al Qaeda-inspired 2006 plot to blow up airliners as they were flying across the Atlantic were sentenced Monday to life in prison, with a minimum of 20 years....read more

Israeli navy commando soldiers who boarded a Gaza-bound aid flotilla on May 31, resulting in violence between troops and activists that left nine Turks dead, "operated properly...read more

t will be an image burned forever into Spain's national consciousness: the sight of captain Iker Casillas in tears after La Roja banished decades of World Cup failure by winning ...read more