
A passenger train rammed into a freight train before dawn Tuesday in southern India, killing at least 15 people in the collision and fire, officials said. Publ.Date : 2012-05-22T06:00:14Z
LONDON (Reuters) - Low-quality and fake anti-malarial drugs flooding into markets in Asia and Africa are driving drug resistance and threatening gains made in the fight against the disease in the past decade, according to a study by global health experts. The study found around 36 percent of anti-malarial drugs analysed in southeast Asia were fake, while a third of samples in sub-Saharan Africa failed chemical testing because they contained either too much or not enough active ingredient. The researchers said the problem might be even bigger. ... Publ.Date : 2012-05-22T06:07:43Z
The head of the embattled Legion of Christ religious order has admitted to covering up news that a prominent priest had fathered a child and announced a review of all past allegations of sexual abuse against Legion priests amid a growing scandal at the order. Publ.Date : 2012-05-22T06:25:05Z
Educators including the U.S. secretary of education, teacher union leaders and school administrators will focus on ways to transform the teaching profession in a conference this week with such targets as better recruiting, preparation and career development, and evaluations based on effectiveness. Publ.Date : 2012-05-22T06:22:21Z
Authorities arrest 21-year-old man in case of missing Northern California teen Sierra LaMar. Publ.Date : 2012-05-22T05:38:58Z
A Yemeni soldier detonated a bomb hidden in his military uniform during a rehearsal for a military parade, killing 96 fellow soldiers and wounding at least 200 on Monday in one of the deadliest attacks in the capital in years. Publ.Date : 2012-05-22T05:45:09Z
One day, the small espresso shop near the site of the London Games was the "Olympic" cafe. The next day, it was the "Lympic." Publ.Date : 2012-05-22T06:18:20Z
Authorities arrested a man Monday evening in the abduction of a Northern California teenager who has been missing for more than two months. Publ.Date : 2012-05-22T06:20:59Z
Mexican artist Diego Rivera's "Girl in Blue and White" is set to headline Sotheby's Latin American art auction in New York. Publ.Date : 2012-05-22T06:26:40Z
BAMAKO (Reuters) - Mali's caretaker president Dioncounda Traore was beaten up and hospitalised after hundreds of protesters stormed his palace on Monday to demand his resignation, officials and protesters said. A spokesman for the soldiers behind a March 22 coup said Traore's close-protection officers had killed three people in the attack, in which protesters entered parts of the palace compound unopposed and tore up pictures of Traore. Mali is struggling to cope with the aftermath of the coup and a subsequent rebellion in its desert north. ... Publ.Date : 2012-05-22T06:09:34Z
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