L-R: President, Nigeria Wrestling Federation, Hon Baraladei Daniel Igali and Vice- President, NWF, Prince F. A. B Adenekan during the inauguration ceremony of the newly elected executives of the association on 17th, May 2013 at the V.I.P Lounge, Main bowl National Stadium, Abuja. (TRADE NEWSWIRE): The emergence of new members ... Read More

USS Freedom, the first of up to four American warships Singapore will host, docked at Changi Naval Base on Thursday 18 April, 2013. (photo by Dylan Loh, Channel NewsAsia) SINGAPORE: A US warship designed to fight in coastal areas arrived Thursday in Singapore for its Southeast Asian deployment, underlining President ... Read More

(TRADE NEWSWIRE): The Global Philanthropy Forum (GPF) announced today the formation of its most recent regional affiliate, the African Philanthropy Forum (APF), TRADE NEWSWIRE reports. In  a statement obtained BY TRADE NEWSWIRE from The Tony Elumelu Foundation on Friday in Lagos, the APF will take the form of a peer-learning network ... Read More

Handout images taken from a video released by the FBI and acquired by AFP shows the two suspects together (L) in the crowd before the blast at the Boston Marathon on April 15, 2013 and "suspect 2" (R) standing behind a lady in the crowd. (AFP/FBI) BOSTON, Massachusetts - Police ... Read More

The IMF forecast that France will fall into recession this year with PARIS: The IMF forecast on Tuesday that France, the eurozone's second-largest economy, will fall into recession this year with the economy contracting by 0.1 per cent. In its latest revisions, the International Monetary Fund dropped its previous forecast of ... Read More

US investigators zeroed in Wednesday on the suspected pressure cooker bombs that exploded at the Boston marathon, killing three people and injuring more than 180, as they hunted for perpetrators. BOSTON, Massachusetts - US investigators zeroed in Wednesday on the suspected pressure cooker bombs that exploded at the Boston marathon, killing ... Read More

  The FBI says there have so far been no claims of responsibility for the deadly Boston bombings and investigators are considering a wide range of suspects. The FBI says there have so far been no claims of responsibility for the deadly Boston bombings and investigators are considering a wide range ... Read More

Margaret Thatcher, the first woman to become British prime minister, has died at 87 after a stroke, a spokeswoman said Monday, April 8. Known as the "Iron Lady," Thatcher, as Conservative Party leader, was prime minister from 1979 to 1990. Here she visits British Prime Minister David Cameron at ... Read More

LAGOS - In the time it takes to read this article, Nigeria will have added 50 people to its population, or about 11,000 a day. While some see these new consumers feeding an engine of prosperity, others fear they will create a crisis of poverty and unrest. By 2050, the global ... Read More

The head of Saudi Arabia's Aids charity foundation says the country saw 1,233 new cases of the disease last year. In remarks published on Tuesday in the state-owned Okaz newspaper, Dr. Sanaa bin Mustafa Flimban said 96 per cent of Aids patients in Saudi Arabia contracted Aids through sexual intercourse. She added ... Read More