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WHO urges billions to fight neglected tropical diseases

The World Health Organization urges countries to invest billions of dollars to tackle 17 neglected tropical diseases - including dengue fever, leprosy and sleeping sickness - which kill 500,000 people globally each year

Feb 20, 2015

Best in Show Miss P conquers New York

Winning hearts wherever she goes, the 2015 Westminster Kennel Club's top dog, Miss P. Unruffled by the adulation, the four-year old beagle began her Best in Show media tour atop New York's Empire

Feb 20, 2015

Migrants scale fence at Spanish border

African migrants cling to a border fence separating Morocco from Spain. They won't back down. Nearly 100 people tried climbing the fence. Around 15 held fast, sitting on the fence for more than

Feb 19, 2015

Best in Show Miss P conquers New York

Winning hearts wherever she goes, the 2015 Westminster Kennel Club's top dog, Miss P. Unruffled by the adulation, the four-year old beagle began her Best in Show media tour atop New York's Empire

Feb 19, 2015

Disaster averted when planes clip in mid-air

A near catastrophe... witnessed by hundreds of spectators. It happened during the "Aero India" airshow. And while disaster was averted, it could have been much worse. The planes were forced to land,

Feb 19, 2015

Christians, Jews, Muslims hold peace pilgrimage in London

Christians, Jews and Muslims from all walks of British life made a pilgrimage through central London on Thursday, in a show of unity against the hatred that drove recent attacks in France and Denmark. Duration: 01:16

Feb 19, 2015

Fashion meets function with robotic zipper

STORY: Struggling with a zipper that wont budge - we've all been there. Forgetting to pull up your fly - most of us have been there to. Those frustrating and sometimes embarrassing moments may soon

Feb 19, 2015

Marchesa dreams up a dark, sensuous Fall 2015 collection

ROUGH CUT (NO REPORTER NARRATION) For a short ten minutes a portion of the second floor of the iconic St. Regis hotel in Manhattan was a sea of sensuous poppy flowers on Wednesday (February 18).

Feb 19, 2015

First journalist to report on death of Argentine prosecutor "threatened"

ROUGH CUT (NO REPORTER NARRATION) The first journalist to report on the death of an Argentine state prosecutor, who was investigating the deadly 1994 bombing of a Jewish community center in Buenos

Feb 19, 2015

Kerry: 'No one country' can stop violent extremism

ROUGH CUT (NO REPORTER NARRATION) U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry said on Thursday "no one country" can stop violent extremism. Delivering remarks at the White House summit on countering violent

Feb 19, 2015

Germany pours cold water on Greece deal

Not good enough - Germany's response to Greece's request for a six month loan extension. Athens offered up major concessions but ran into strong objections from the EU paymaster. The German finance

Feb 19, 2015

Australian former Guantanamo prisoner Hicks, demands expenses help

Former Guantanamo Bay detainee David Hicks, says it's pay-back time. With his conviction on terrorism charges overturned by a U.S. military appeals court, he wants the Australian government to pay

Feb 19, 2015

Five people arrested for allegedly leaking govt documents from petroleum ministry, interrogation on:

New Delhi, Feb 19 (ANI): Delhi Police Commissioner BS Bassi on Thursday said that police arrested five people for allegedly leaking government documents from the petroleum ministry. Bassi said that three people were caught with some classified papers and that two more were detained after interrogation. He said that the police in investigating the case and that interrogation with all the five people are on. Basi further said that these people used fake identities to enter the building and had duplicate keys which they used and thereafter used to steal documents, photo-copied them in order to pass them on to non-governmental people.

Feb 19, 2015

Soldiers killed in Debaltseve withdrawal, Ukraine calls for peacekeepers

==RESENDING WITH UPDATED INTRO== "It's over"... proclaims one Ukrainian soldier. He's one of thousands of troops now back in government-controlled territory after withdrawing from the strategically

Feb 19, 2015

Dharmendra Pradhan says investigation on over leakage of Classified info from Petroleum Ministry, as

New Delhi, Feb 19 (ANI): Minister of State for Petroleum and Natural Gas Ministry, Dharmendra Pradhan on Thursday said that investigation is on over the leakage of classified information from Petroleum Ministry. He said that the government will take strong action once the investigation is over. Two Petroleum Ministry employees are among five persons arrested for allegedly leaking confidential government documents to private companies, Delhi Police said. According to sources, said a clerical staff and a peon of the Petroleum Ministry were apprehended by the police. Pradhan, however, said that the new government has started keeping an eye over all the activities in the ministry and said that cameras are installed among other things to keep a check.

Feb 19, 2015