CULTURE AND SPORT

The air transport industry ended 2009 with the largest ever post-war decline, according to the International Air Transport Association.

French rescuers pulled a teenage girl, moments from death, from the rubble of a home on Wednesday, 15 days after an earthquake devastated the city.

Apple CEO Steve Jobs unveiled the company's much-anticipated iPad tablet computer Wednesday.

North Korea fired artillery and South Korea responded with warning shots along their disputed western sea border Wednesday.

John Travolta has landed his own jet in Haiti carrying relief supplies and a team including doctors and Scientology ministers.

A suicide car bomber killed at least 18 and injured dozens more in a strike against a police crime lab in central Baghdad.

International donors agreed on a 10-year rebuilding effort for earthquake-damaged Haiti, one that would create an even better capital city.

Polls have opened in Sri Lanka for the presidential election which comes after a bitter campaign.

He's no Wyclef Jean or George Clooney, but that hasn't stopped seven-year-old Charlie Simpson from raising more than £120,000 ($195,000) for the Haiti earthquake.

Some time last year, in all probability, the "billionth African" was born, a milestone that will only benefit the poorest continent if it can get its act together and unify its piecemeal markets.

Microsoft founder Bill Gates has told the BBC that a vaccine for malaria could be just three years away.

All 90 people aboard an Ethiopian Airlines plane were feared dead after it plunged into the Mediterranean.

An Ethiopian Airlines plane with 90 people on board crashed into the sea shortly after taking off from Beirut.

Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie are reportedly "fine" and not headed for splitsville, a US media report says.

Osama bin Laden endorsed the failed attempt to blow up a U.S. airliner on Christmas Day and threatened new attacks against the United States in an audio message released Sunday.

The couple have reportedly signed papers paving the way for a legal separation with joint custody of their children.

Haiti's government has declared the search and rescue phase for survivors of the earthquake over, the UN said Saturday.

After failed contract negotiations with MLS, Lee Nguyen has decided to return to the V-League and continue playing for Hoang Anh Gia Lai.

As Haitians begin rebuilding a crippled economy, the rapid surge in prices of crucial products is just one of the many challenges they face.