Donors: Microsoft billionaire Bill Gates and rock star Bono are among some of the Global Fund's high profile supporters. A multi billion dollar global health fund backed by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation is being probed for widespread fraud after it emerged grant money to developing countries had been ‘eaten up by corruption.’ The Global Fund to Fight Aids, Tuberculosis and Malaria... 

Soldiers in a central Nigerian city opened fire Saturday on university students protesting continuing violence between Christians and Muslims, witnesses said, with at least nine people killed in the ensuing violence. The shooting came as gas stations and farmers’ markets smoldered after late Friday violence that sparked when Christian students attacked Muslims trying to bury a corpse in Jos,... 

A clergyman lights candles at the site of the bomb blast at Domodedovo airport, near Moscow, Russia. Attacker who killed 35 is 20-year-old man from troubled Caucasus region. Russian investigators have said they now know the identity of the suicide bomber who claimed the lives of 35 people in an attack on Moscow’s busiest airport last Monday. The attacker is a 20-year-old man from the unsettled... 

According to Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life, the Muslim population in Spain will increase by around 82% by 2030. Currently, Muslims make up just over 1 million of the country’s population, which is expected to increase to about 1.9 million in the next two decades. Immigration is cited as the main reason behind the increase, as just this past year Muslims made up 13% of all newly arrived... 

An American missionary shot dead in Mexico may have been targeted for her expensive pickup truck, police say. Nancy and Sam Davis were attacked by gunmen Wednesday while driving their 2008 Chevrolet pickup on a highway near San Fernando, about 70 miles south of the Mexican border city of Reynosa, police said. A bullet struck Nancy Davis, 59, in the head. Her husband raced to get her to medical help,... 

Pointed: The Prime Minister said 'unsustainable levels of public spending and immigration' were among the problems inherited by the Coalition. David Cameron today identified immigration as being partly responsible for the economic crisis gripping the country. The Prime Minister said ‘unsustainable levels of public spending and immigration’ were among the problems inherited by the... 

Four people have been killed and three more wounded and hospitalised in the Dagestani city of Khasavyurt as a result of a car bomb explosion. An official of the Dagestani Interior Ministry told Itar-Tass on Thursday that the “incident took place on Wednesday at 22:10 MSK on the 739th kilometre of the Kavkaz federal highway at the exit from Khasavyurt.” According to the source, an unknown man parked... 

In this March 28, 1999 file photo, Yugoslav army experts check the wreckage of a downed American F-117 aircraft, in the village of Budjanovci, 30 miles northwest of Belgrade. Chinese officials recently unveiled a new, high-tech stealth fighter that could pose a significant threat to American air superiority — and some of its technology, it turns out, may well have come from the U.S. itself. Balkan... 

There are reports that North Korea has forced hundreds of people to witness the executions of two people caught reading South Korean propaganda. South Korea’s Chosun Ilbo newspaper is reporting that a North Korean woman was sentenced to die after being caught reading a propaganda leaflet from the South. A high ranking military officer was also charged with pocketing dollar bills sent with the... 

Moscow’s Domodedovo airport – the busiest in the Russian capital – has been rocked by an explosion that has reportedly killed 31 people. Suspicion has fallen on the “Caucasus Emirate”, an Islamist separatist movement in Chechnya. More than 100 more are thought to have been injured in the blast, which reports suggest may have been the work of a suicide bomber. Russia’s chief... 

In a recent statistical revelation, two-thirds of the UK’s freshly minted jobs found themselves in the hands of individuals born outside the country. This disclosure coincided with a bleak milestone, marking Britain’s unemployment at 2.5 million, including a staggering 951,000 individuals aged 16 to 24. Against the backdrop of rising unemployment fueled by public sector job cuts, an examination... 

The end of the year means a turnover of House control from Democratic to Republican and, with it, Congress’ approach to immigration. In a matter of weeks, Congress will go from trying to help young, illegal immigrants become legal to debating whether children born to parents who are in the country illegally should continue to enjoy automatic U.S. citizenship. Such a hardened approach – and... 

A group of immigrant day laborers stand near a street corner waiting for work in the Staten Island borough of New York August 3, 2010. Over the past two years, as U.S. unemployment remained near double-digit levels and the economy shed jobs in the wake of the financial crisis, over a million foreign-born arrivals to America found work, many illegally. Those are among the findings of a review of U.S.... 

It’s been four years since Mexican President Felipe Calderón began a concerted effort to curb drug-related violence across Mexico, deploying 50,000 federal troops charged with dismantling the country’s drug cartels and drug transportation networks. Much to the chagrin of Calderón, his government’s escalation was met head-on by the cartels, resulting in a 60 percent increase in... 

Defiant: Alya Al-Safar, arrived at court with her hair on show. She said Al-Hakim, phoned her to tell her she must die for the shame she had brought on her family. A man threatened to kill his cousin and harm her family after she decided to stop wearing the traditional Muslim headscarf, a court has heard. Mohamed Al-Hakim, 29, allegedly phoned Alya Al-Safar to tell her she must die because of the ‘shame’...