Unprecedented violence and riots, dubbed the 'football wars', followed last week's World Cup qualifier between Egypt and Algeria.

Hollywood celebrities and publicists are trooping to Wild Card Gym to either shake hands with the Filipino boxing icon Manny Pacquiao or to invite him for guesting in their TV programs and other live sporting events.

Despite readily available vaccines, death rate of sickle-cell anemia in African children remains to be a growing concern, researchers said Thursday.

A Russian journalist has fled the country after making suggestions that the Arctic Sea cargo ship was carrying illegal weapons. The cargo ship was apparently hi-jacked in July by men disguised as police men.

On the second weekend of the English Premier League season reigning champions Manchester United put a shock mid-week defeat behind them to score five without reply at Wigan and Arsenal swept to the top of the table with a 4-1 home victory over Portsmouth.

Secretary of State Hillary Clinton emphasized that her seven-country tour of Africa was intended to promote unity and democracy, fight corruption, and boost US investments in African trade and agriculture.

A cargo ship on which went through the English Channel disappeared shortly afterwards and international efforts are underway to find it, including the use of a Russian warship. Swedish authorities had already reported suspect activity on the ship.

In the newest HIV/AIDS study conducted by various researchers from Oxford University, the Population Council of Ghana and the Kenya Medical Research, they found how men who have sex with men have no safe access to relevant HIV/AIDS information.

China has warned Chinese companies in Algeria to be on guard after Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM) called for retaliation against China for its crackdown in the country’s Muslim western province of Xinjiang.

Oxfam International says the effects of climate change are becoming more devastating and changes in localized weather patterns are affecting global food production. Oxfam warns that increased hunger will result.