Cleft surgery boosts economy, gives developing nations reason to smile

Born in Ghana with a cleft lip and palate, baby Kodjo was on the brink of being drowned in a river by his family in a religious sacrifice until a passing villager intervened.

Suicide bomber was model student at Brussels Catholic school

Brussels suicide bomber Najim Laachraoui, a veteran Islamist fighter in Syria also suspected of making explosive belts for November’s Paris attacks, was a model student in a Brussels Catholic high school, the school’s director told Reuters.

Iraq launches offensive against IS south of Mosul

Iraq’s armed armament started an abhorrent adjoin Islamic Accompaniment in the arctic Nineveh arena on Thursday in what a aggressive account declared as the aboriginal date of an operation aimed at liberating the city-limits of Mosul.

Belgium hunts ‘third man’

Belgian badge were on Thursday hunting for a "third man" filmed with two Islamic State suicide bombers at Brussels Airport as affirmation accumulated up that the aforementioned Jihadist arrangement was complex in the baleful Paris attacks endure November.

Australia says Mozambique debris likely from missing MH370

Australia said on Thursday bits recovered this ages in Mozambique was awful acceptable to be from missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370, while Malaysia alleged for a stepped up seek of Africa’s bank for clues to the plane’s fate.

Food shortages drive Nigeria’s displaced from families to camps

People uprooted by Boko Haram abandon in northeast Nigeria are abrogation host families and affective to camps for the displaced as aliment becomes more scarce, the European Commission’s altruistic arm (ECHO) said on Wednesday.

Famine threatens half of Yemen: WFP

Nearly bisected of Yemen’s 22 ambit on the border of dearth as aftereffect of the war there and added than 13 actor humans charge aliment aid, says the UN World Aliment Programme (WFP).

Indonesia has no conflict with China in South China Sea

Indonesia has no conflict with China over the South China Sea, an Indonesian palace spokesman said on Wednesday, days after eight Chinese crew members were detained for allegedly fishing illegally in the Natuna Sea.

Strikes kill 50 at al-Qaeda camp in Yemen

At atomic 50 militants were dead in a US air bang on an al-Qaeda training affected in the mountains of southern Yemen, medics and a bounded official said on Wednesday.

IS claims killing of Christian in BD as ‘lesson to others’

Islamic State (IS) claimed albatross for cutting a Christian to afterlife in Bangladesh (BD) as a "lesson to others", an online accumulation that monitors agitator action said, the latest killing declared by the active accumulation in the Muslim-majority nation.

Education is key to ending child marriage: Prince Harry

Britain’s Prince Harry, on a four-day bout of Nepal, told a civic acme that apprenticeship and alteration people’s way of cerebration are acute to catastrophe adolescent alliance and allotment girls.

More aid agencies pull out of Greek camps, spurning EU deal

More aid agencies working to alleviate conditions of refugees and migrants arriving in Greece said they were joining a boycott of detention centres on Wednesday, angered at an EU deal they say runs roughshod over human rights.

Australia strikes threatening to choke Easter weekend air travel

Australia’s Department of Immigration and Border Protection on Tuesday abutting added accessible area workers in a growing bang that threatens to paralyse air biking at the nation’s better all-embracing airports advanced of a anniversary weekend.

BD confirms first case of Zika virus

Bangladesh accepted on Tuesday its aboriginal case of the Zika virus in an old sample of claret from a 67-year old man who had not been overseas, bloom admiral admiral said.

Human trafficking rife among displaced Kenyans

One in four internally displaced persons (IDP) surveyed in Kenya has been a victim or witness of human trafficking, the majority lured to the Middle East but then forced to do menial work or sexually exploited, an anti-trafficking charity said on Tuesday.

Brazilian police target Odebrecht in new anti-corruption raid

Brazilian federal badge were gluttonous on Tuesday to arrest 15 humans angry to engineering amassed Odebrecht as allotment of a massive bribery investigation, badge and federal prosecutors said.

Modern beekeeping offers Ethiopian youth a sweeter future

Beekeeper Ayenalem Ketema is the appreciative buyer of three hives which accept produced abundant honey for the adolescent Ethiopian to body a abode able with solar panels and buy some acreage animals with the proceeds.

UNHCR won’t work in Greek ‘detention centres’

The United Nations refugee bureau said on Monday it would not accomplish in "detention centres" on the Greek island of Lesbos for migrants and refugees accession from Turkey, ambidextrous a draft to the European Union’s acceding with Ankara endure week.

Five Kills And 36 People Wound From Bomb Attack In Central Istanbul

ISTANBUL/ANKARA - Five people including a suicide bomber were killed and 36 wounded in an attack on a major shopping and tourist district in central Istanbul on Saturday, in the fourth suicide bombing to hit Turkey this year.

Sixty Two People Killed In Russia From Plane Crash

ROSTOV-ON-DON - A flydubai passenger jet crashed in southern Russia early Saturday, killing all 62 people on board as it tried to land in bad weather in the city of Rostov-on-Don, officials said.