Libya’s leader admits his transitional government, fails to control militias who do not lay down arms and commit to central governments, as more than 100 people are reportedly killed in tribal clashes in past 10 days

Somalia should be enjoying an Arab Spring of its own but its al-Shabaab insurgents are fomenting jihad both at home and abroad, British Prime Minister David Cameron said yesterday.

Yemeni electoral officials hailed a high turnout in a landmark vote that ended President Ali Abdullah Saleh’s 33-year rule, despite boycott calls in the south where violence marred polling.

The leader of a Russian-backed Georgian breakaway region narrowly survived an assassination attempt yesterday that killed two of his bodyguards, local media reported.

Recently, Istanbul has become an important center for health tourism. According to officials, 350,000 tourists come to Turkey every year for medical reasons

Financial market traders and keen gamblers take note. Scientists have found that a chemical in the region of the brain involved in sensory and reward systems is crucial to whether people simply brush off the pain of financial losses.

Monkeys suffering from Parkinson’s disease show a marked improvement when human embryonic stem cells are implanted in their brains, in what a Japanese researcher said Wednesday was a world first.

During a police operation in the southeastern province of Adıyaman on Feb. 21, 150 historic artifacts from the Roman, Byzantine and Hellenistic periods were found in a car.

China’s Geely is set to make passenger cars in Egypt. The facility in the North African country will have an annual capacity of 300,000 cars. The news comes after Great Wall Motor’s decision to invest in Bulgaria

Bank of England policymakers voted 7-2 earlier this month to inject Britain’s faltering economy with an extra £50 billion ($79 billion), minutes of their meeting showed yesterday.