ROME — Brazil's former food security minister Jose Graziano da Silva was elected Sunday as the next head of UN's Food and Agricultural Organisation, the first South American ever to get the post.
WELLINGTON — A New Zealand minister has hit out at critics of his "dead possum" haircut, chastising bald-headed journalists for mocking his manicured mane.
TOKYO (AFP) – Japan's foreign minister says the country is open for business and travel as domestic firms are recovering at "surprising speed" from the aftermath of the March 11 earthquake and tsunami.
THE HAGUE — Former Kenyan government minister William Ruto arrived at the International Criminal Court in The Hague on Thursday for the first hearing in his trial for crimes against humanity.
HANOI — The son of a Vietnamese revolutionary leader was jailed for seven years on Monday for spreading anti-state propaganda, in one of the communist nation's most politically charged cases in years.
BENGHAZI, Libya (AFP) – The Libyan rebels insisted Monday that the whole Kadhafi family must leave before there can be any truce with regime forces amid reports that his sons are offering to oversee a transition.
