WASHINGTON: The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation has announced a $US335 million ($365 million) investment in teacher effectiveness in three large US school systems and ... more

LOS ANGELES: Only days after a US panel scaled back on breast cancer screening recommendations, the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists has done the ... more

No one knows why birth defects are increasing but doctors fear they are a result of war, writes Martin Chulov in Falluja.

CAIRO: One of the Arab world's biggest pop stars has provoked outrage after releasing a song that refers to black Egyptians as monkeys.

LONDON: British lawyers for a nine-year-old boy due to be removed from Britain were yesterday urgently trying to stop his deportation.

KABUL: In dwelling on the need to combat corruption, to talk to the Taliban and to transfer control of policing Afghanistan from foreign troops to ... more