UNITED NATIONS - The United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, Navi Pillay, has welcomed US decision to appoint a special prosecutor to look into whether Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) officers and contractors broke US laws while conducting interrogations outside the US, including at ...

COLOMBO (AFP) - New Zealand will field a full-strength team in Wednesday's second cricket Test against Sri Lanka after the tourists were plagued by a stomach bug in the first match. New Zealand had 13 of their 15 players laid low by upset stomachs and viral fever during the first Test in Galle last ...

WASHINGTON - A young Afghan Guantanamo Bay prisoner has been released and returned to Afghanistan, the US Justice Department said Monday. Mohammed Jawad was 17 when he was arrested six years ago, US officials say, but his lawyer says he was 14 and family members say he was 12. Jawads conviction ...

ECO-thinkers have come up with an amazing new way to create drinking water - by putting plants in the bottom of a shower. Designers Jun Yasumoto, Vincent Vandenbrouk, Olivier Pigasse, and Alban Le Henry came up with the concept when looking for new ways to recycle precious H2O. After you have ...

OAK BLUFFS/WASHINGTON (AFP) - US President Barack Obama warned on Tuesday the US economy had a long way to go before it reached full recovery as he awarded Federal Reserve chairman Ben Bernanke a second term. Of course, as I have said before, we are a long way away from a completely healthy ...