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UNDP Administrator Helen Clark (right) with President Michel Martelly of Haiti.

The Asian population of the United States grew faster than any other racial or ethnic group in the last decade, according to a report.

A British woman held hostage for six months inside Somalia has been freed after a ransom was paid to her captors. The British Foreign Office said Wednesday she was being taken to a safe place.

Nine thousand Nazi war criminals reportedly fled to South America after World War II, leaked secret documents have revealed.

Bonobo apes, which live in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) in central Africa and often have sex every few minutes, are now staring extinction in the face.

Belarus has executed two men convicted for a fatal 2011 metro bomb attack, despite protests from European human rights groups and calls for a re-trial.

Peap Tarr stands in front of a painting he has up for sale as part of Cambodia's first high-level auction, which took place on March 11, 2012.

A bus carrying Belgian tourists has crashed into the wall of a tunnel in the Valais region of Switzerland, leaving 28 people, including 22 children, dead, according to police.

Mexican authorities have found 167 human skeletons from about 50 years ago in a cave in the southeastern state of Chiapas, near the border with Guatemala, prosecutors said.

The Bangladesh Cricket Board (BCB) has dampened hopes of revival of international cricket in Pakistan, by objecting to the International Cricket Council (ICC) Chief Executives Committee's (CEC) decision to recommend non-neutral officials for a proposed series between the two countries.