Algeria wants to cut flu vaccines order | ALGIERS - Algeria wants to reduce its order of swine flu vaccines from 20 to five million doses, as cases of the virus have declined in the north African country, the health ministry told public rad... (photo: AP / Vadim Ghirda) Middle East Online
Algeria wants to get off US air travel watch list | Algeria says it is "unacceptable" for the North African nation to be on such lists. | Noureddine Yazid Zerhouni reiterated that Tuesday, saying, "if this is truly necessary, we should apply the rule... (photo: WN / noha) The Press Democrat
HRW raps Morocco on rights record | Rabat, January 28: Morocco is one of the most open countries in North Africa but its human rights record deteriorated last year, a leading rights watchdog said Wednesday as it presented its annual r... (photo: WN / marzena)The Siasat Daily ArabMoroccoNorth AfricaPhotosSahara
China's global hunt for food security    | President Nursultan Nazarbayev of Kazakhstan has an unmatched survival instinct. | This, after all, is a man who came to power in the dying days of the Soviet Un... (photo: ASSOCIATED PRESS PHOTO)Canada Dot Com AgricultureChinaFoodPhotosPopulation
Muslims around us | Last November, a referendum in Switzerland resulted in a ban on the building of Muslim minarets, the iconic towers on top of mosques with a crescent and star to symboli... (photo: WN / Janice Sabnal)Inquirer CountriesHeritageIslamPhotosReligion
Berlusconi: Bring Israel into the EU | JERUSALEM -- Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi said Monday he hopes to bring Israel into the European Union, at the start of a three-day visit to the Jewish stat... (photo: AP / Alessandro Di Meo, pool)The Miami Herald BerlusconiBusinessEUIsraelPhotos
Nine billion people by 2050? | The world's population is growing at a startling rate. These figures show the number of people in each country on the globe | • | How many people live in each country... (photo: WN / Yolanda Leyba)The Guardian CensusPeoplePhotosVisualisationWorld
