Geneva - British sports car manufacturer Aston Martin unveiled the DBS Volante convertible, based on the DBS Coupe that celebrated its market debut in 2008 with a 517 hp power package, in Geneva.
The open-top version has a folding cloth top that opens and closes in just 14 seconds and can be operated at a speed of up to 48 kilometres an hour.
Geneva - A total of 7,610 aid workers have now been ordered to leave northern Sudan in response to the international arrest warrant issued against the country's president last week, the United Nations said on Tuesday.
Around 1.5 million people in war-torn Darfur depend on aid workers for health services which now face disruption, whilst 1.1 million people would no longer receive vital food aid and over 1.15 million people may lose access to safe drinking water.
Geneva - Diarrheal diseases, responsible for about 20 per cent of child deaths worldwide, are on the rise, the International Federation of Red Cross Societies warned Tuesday.
The organization's statistics showed that in the last two years, national Red Cross and Red Crescent societies have requested 35 per cent more emergency aid to help treat occurrences of acute diarrheal illnesses than in 2006. These illnesses were related to outbreaks of diseases such as cholera.
Geneva - The sub-prime mortgage crisis has exposed the crisis in governments' housing policies and could still hit the middle classes, the United Nations' expert on urban planning said on Monday.
Sub-prime mortgages, given by lenders to people who could not afford them, are widely blamed for triggering the meltdown in US banks and the global liquidity crisis and economic downturn.
Geneva - At least 4,011 people have died from cholera in Zimbabwe since an outbreak began last year, United Nations statistics showed Monday, with access to medical care still a major problem.
About 61 per cent of the dead were deemed community deaths, meaning the victims were unable to reach medical treatment.
A total of 89,018 cases have been reported, according to data from the World Health Organization, based in part on information from the Ministry of Health in Harare.
Geneva - The healthcare needs of women in areas stricken by conflict are being neglected and often ignored, the International Committee for the Red Cross' (ICRC) specialist on women in war has said, ahead of International Women's Day on Sunday March 8th.
"During conflict women are made more vulnerable," Nadine Puechguirbal, the ICRC's specialist on the women and war told Deutsche Presse-Agentur dpa. Women's health needs can be neglected while the burden they shoulder, particularly looking after a family, can become harder.
Geneva - British sports car manufacturer Aston Martin unveiled the DBS Volante convertible, based on the DBS Coupe that celebrated its market debut in 2008 with a 517 hp power package, in Geneva.
Geneva - A total of 7,610 aid workers have now been ordered to leave northern Sudan in response to the international arrest warrant issued against the country's president last week, the United Nations said on Tuesday.
Geneva - Diarrheal diseases, responsible for about 20 per cent of child deaths worldwide, are on the rise, the International Federation of Red Cross Societies warned Tuesday.
Geneva - The sub-prime mortgage crisis has exposed the crisis in governments' housing policies and could still hit the middle classes, the United Nations' expert on urban planning said on Monday.
Geneva - At least 4,011 people have died from cholera in Zimbabwe since an outbreak began last year, United Nations statistics showed Monday, with access to medical care still a major problem.
Geneva - The healthcare needs of women in areas stricken by conflict are being neglected and often ignored, the International Committee for the Red Cross' (ICRC) specialist on women in war has said, ahead of International Women's Day on Sunday March 8th.
