Royal Dutch Shell says it is losing the equivalent of 30,000 barrels of crude oil per day because of recent attacks against its installations in Nigeria.

Mother's Day seems as good a day as any to remind ourselves that being a mother for far too many women is still a death sentence.

The World > Africa The continent of Africa is the world's second largest continent after Asia, with a total surface area, including several surrounding islands of 30,313,000 square kilometres.

A file photo of workers on an oil rig in the Niger Delta region. Oil majors said they had shut down wells producing more than a third of Nigeria's oil exports as ethnic militants in the area threatened to ...

Authorities in Spain launched Sunday an investigation into the deaths of at least 18 people in a reported bacteria epidemic at one of Madrid's main hospitals.