Projections for global population growth could be cut by as much as 1 billion over the next 15 years due to the fact that the number of women using contraceptives in developing countries has soared to record levels in recent years.   With some poorer regions recording the fastest pace of...

Stepping up sanctions against the isolated state, South Korea has announced a crackdown on individuals and companies linked to Pyongyang's weapons program and China has barred a North Korean freighter from one of its ports and South Korea announced a crackdown on individuals and companies linked to...

The billionaire, media mogul and former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg announced that he has decided not to participate as an independent candidate for the US president office. He wrote about this in his column on the website BloombergView. Bloomberg explained his decision by saying he does...

After the terrorist attacks in Paris, The European Central Bank came to think if it's time to get rid of the €500-bills. Large banknotes has long been associated with the Mafia, they are used for bribes, carried in suitcases and stores are reluctant to accept them. Two years ago, customs officials...

Suspicion of forgery of more than £1million on eBay for the purpose of funding terrorism has resulted in the arrest of a man who had earlier claimed to be an al-Qaida insider. However, later that man had told security agencies that he had made it up.     The modus-operandi of the...

After being accused of fraudulently pocketing $2.8 billion and after a lengthy trial process, Iran's billionaire tycoon Babak Zanjani has been sentenced to death for corruption, a judicial official said Sunday.   Despite financial sanctions imposed on the Islamic republic's banks as...

Asking a judge to support Apple Inc in its encryption battle with the U.S. government, tech industry leaders including Alphabet Inc's Google, Facebook Inc, Microsoft Corp, AT&T and more than two dozen other Internet and technology companies filed legal briefs on Thursday.   The breadth...

The precedent of Britain came faster than many experts expected. Norway plans to significantly reduce payments to foreign workers from the EU, as London did. Formally, Norway is not an EU member, but in fact, the country is in the block’s sphere of influence. Just a couple of decades ago, Norway...

Urging other party members to learn from his example, a retired property developer who criticized President Xi Jinping’s state media clampdown is to be “seriously punished” by the Communist Party officials in Beijing.   The party committee in Beijing’s Xicheng district said in a statement...