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Coral reefs can take more than a decade to recover from catastrophic climatic events, with some species taking up to 13 years to recolonise their original habitats, scientists have discovered.

Marine conservationists from Plymouth University, and the Universidad Federal da Bahia in Brazil, have spent more than 17 years analysing the diversity and density of coral colonies off the coast...

As part of "Global Days of Action" to support Guantánamo hunger strikers, on Friday 17 May in Chicago, demonstrators marked the 100th day of another hunger strike at the Guantanamo Bay detention center, where inmates have been protesting their indefinite detention by the U.S. government on terrorism charges.

Protesters, dressed in orange overalls, went outside the Federal Plaza and...

Pakistani politican Imran Khan has sent a message to his supporters and the people of Pakistan from his hospital bed in Lahore, urging the Electoral Commission of Pakistan and Supreme Court to take the rigging complaints seriously because the future of the country as well as democracy directly depended upon free and fair elections.

The message, posted on Facebook, shows Khan in his...

A woman has been rescued from the rubble of a building in Dhaka in Bangladesh 17 days after it collapsed.

The woman, named Reshma, is reported to have no serious injuries. The fire service report that she was discovered in the remains of the second floor of the eight storey building, the Rana Plaza.

The army report that more than 1,000 people lost their lives in the tragedy...