Pakistan fast bowler Sohail Tanvir has been ruled out of international cricket for at least four months due to a knee injury thus ending his chances of playing in the World T20 Championship in the Caribbean next...

The UN Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (Unesco) will set up a committee to help restore the Haitian cultural heritage damaged in a devastating earthquake in the Caribbean...

PORT-AU-PRINCE (Reuters) - Two foreign aid workers with Doctors Without Borders in quake-hit Haiti were kidnapped and held for nearly a week before being freed early on Thursday, the international...

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti — Kidnappers have freed two Swiss women snatched off the streets of Haiti's capital and held for five days, officials said...

Washington — The reconstruction of earthquake-stricken Haiti could take more than a decade and cost between $8 billion and $14 billion, but the United States pledges a lasting commitment to the...

Royal Caribbean International has extended its commitment to cruise year-round from Baltimore for an extra year, through April 2012. Port officials and Gov. Martin O’Malley said the planned...

Only weeks after the country was hit by an earthquake, Haiti is threatened by the next potential calamity. The upcoming rainy season could turn overcrowded refugee camps into hotbeds of disease. And...

Stars Man Phones In 'Hope For Haiti' Telethon Kidnappers have freed two Swiss women snatched off the streets of Haiti's capital and held for five days, officials said Thursday. It is the first...

Two European women aid workers were kidnapped in Haiti last week but freed on Thursday, their organization, Medecins Sans Frontieres (Doctors Without Borders) told AFP. "We are immensely...

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) - Kidnappers have freed two Swiss women snatched off the streets of Haiti's capital and held for five days, officials said Thursday. It is the first reported kidnapping...

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti — Kidnappers have freed two Swiss women snatched off the streets of Haiti's capital and held for five days, officials said Thursday. It is the first reported...

The Senate Finance Committee's chair, Max Baucus (D-Mont.), and top Republican, Charles Grassley (Iowa), are working with colleagues in the House on legislation that would lower tariffs in an effort...

NEW YORK, 11 March 2010 (IRIN) - Haiti's economy depends on the estimated US$1.5 billion a year in remittances sent home by its million-strong diaspora. Dilip Ratha, lead economist at the World Bank...

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti — Kidnappers have freed two Swiss women snatched off the streets of Haiti's capital and held for five days, officials said Thursday. It is the first reported kidnapping...

St Kitts and Nevis' Prime Minister Denzil Douglas has accused some members of the international community of excluding the Caribbean from reconstruction efforts in Haiti, following the January...

A Haitian man was discovered in the hockey bag in the back of the this SUV crossing into the U.S. near Kingston, Ont. (HO) TORONTO - Two Virginia sisters whose love knew no borders are in jail after...

Dr. Katherine Owens, a psychologist with the Regina Qu'Appelle Health Region's Mental Health Clinic, in Haiti, where she helped to counsel victims of the country's recent...

THE ASSOCIATED PRESS PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti -- Doctors Without Borders says kidnappers have released two European aid workers snatched off the streets of Port-au-Prince and held for five days. It...

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) - Doctors Without Borders says kidnappers have released two European aid workers snatched off the streets of Port-au-Prince and held for five days. It is the first reported...

The American Red Cross announced it is allocating an additional $24.4 million for Haiti earthquake relief and recovery, increasing its total commitment to date to $106.4 million. The Red Cross made...

HAITI'S President is asking for a $US14 billion ($15.3bn) aid package to turn the rubble of Port-au-Prince into a thriving modern city after January's...

‘Stars of Balakov’ won 12:5 against ‘the Lords of Football’, with Balakov scoring 1 and Bobic shooting in a quick hat-trick. Photo by...

The U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) has awarded International Relief and Development (IRD) more than $6 million to help with transitional shelter, sanitation, and infrastructure in...

OTTAWA — Canada will play a leading role at an international meeting to rally the Haitian diaspora to rebuild their earthquake-battered homeland, The Canadian Press has learned. The...

Santo Domingo.- President Leonel Fernandez and Canada Governor general Michaëlle Jean discussed to this Wednesday an attainable plan for Haiti’s reconstruction which involves Dominican civil...

Haitian girl separated from her parents when rescue workers found her nearly buried in rubble and airlifted her to a Miami hospital, is a step closer to being returned to her family. Jenny --...

Haitian President Rene Preval met privately in the Oval Office with President Barack Obama before delivering remarks to a crowd in the Rose Garden that included aid workers, members of Congress and...

WASHINGTON.- Sonia Pierre, the controversial Haitian immigrants’ rights activist in Dominican Republic, yesterday received the Woman of Courage Award, together with nine other women who stand out...

More than 470 soldiers from the 82nd Airborne Division have departed quake-struck Haiti leaving about 9 000 US troops behind. During their mission, the soldiers assisted non-governmental...

United States President Barack Obama today said conditions in quake-stricken Haiti remained dire and promised that the US would be a reliable partner in reconstruction efforts. Obama, speaking at...

Haiti . Classes will be canceled so students can attend a public memorial for Britney Gengel, 19, of Rutland, Mass.; Stephanie Crispinelli, 19, of Katonah, N.Y.; Courtney Hayes, 23, of Douglas,...

The United States will withdraw 11,000 troops from Haiti, according to news reaching here from Port an Prince Wednesday.As the quake relief efforts come to an end and reconstruction begins, the...

Kicking off a visit to Haiti today, the head of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) today reiterated the agency?s support to help the nation protect its...

WASHINGTON -- President Obama said yesterday conditions in quake-stricken Haiti remained dire and promised that the United States would be a reliable partner in reconstruction efforts. Obama,...

Reporting from Washington - President Obama pledged to stand by Haiti as it recovered from its devastating earthquake, assuring the stricken nation's president today that the U.S. would not turn its...

Weber Institute student Jose Miguel Dominguez Soto has his hair cut Wednesday by Marinello School of Beauty student Jeimi Fierros. Soto agreed to have his long hair publicly shorn if he was able to...

Haiti’s president has been to Washington seeking assurances that US aid will continue in the long term for his earthquake devastated country. Even though the images of the January disaster may...

UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon on Tuesday mourned 101 men and women who were killed during the devastating earthquake in Haiti on Jan 12, including four Chinese personnel of the UN peacekeeping...

As part of the UN Mission, 140 men from Assam Rifles will be leaving for Haiti next month to provide relief and aid in the quake-hit poor Carribean country. "The contingent will include ten officers...