Development

News Hour: The UK is stepping up humanitarian efforts in northern Iraq to put in place food, shelter and water ahead of a major Iraqi-led operation to retake Mosul city from Daesh forces, International Development Secretary...

News Hour: Almost 40 years after the first human test-tube baby was born, South African scientists have produced something bulkier: the first Cape buffalo brought into the world by in vitro fertilization (IVF). Pumelelo the buffalo...

News Hour: Camp management started a biometric population registration for internally displaced persons (IDPs) at the UN House Protection of Civilians (PoC) site in Juba, South Sudan, on 20 September. The registration, which will continue for...

News Hour: The Asian Development Bank (ADB) will help Sri Lanka prepare studies and designs for new road, railway, and port projects so the country’s transport system is well-placed to support economic growth in the medium...

News Hour: IOM, together with the Ministry of Employment of Madagascar, organized a two-day capacity building workshop on the development and formalization of Bilateral Labour Agreements (BLAs) in the capital city Antananarivo on 21-22 September. During...

News Hour: Typhoon Megi, the 17th of this year, is expected to make landfall in the coastal areas of Fujian and Guangdong provinces around Wednesday, according to the National Meteorological Center (NMC). As of 5 am...

News Hour: A powerful 6.3-magnitude earthquake struck off the southern Philippines early Saturday but there was no threat of a tsunami or any casualties reported, seismologists and disaster officials said. The offshore quake hit at 6:53...

News Hour: At least 133 bodies had been recovered by Friday from a boat carrying hundreds of migrants that capsized off Egypt two days earlier, Egyptian officials said. The boat sank off Burg Rashed, a coastal...

News Hour: A fire that erupted at a warehouse in Moscow on Thursday killed five firemen, local media reported. Over 160 people and about 50 pieces of equipment were involved in the blaze, which broke out...

News Hour: Rescuers have recovered 27 bodies and are searching for 22 missing persons after flash floods and landslides struck West Java province in western Indonesia on Wednesday and Tuesday, a spokesman for the national disaster...