VIDEO:"The new negotiation process [and] the participation of a U.S. diplomat look positive from the outset, but we hope that is reflected in the talks," Manouchehr Mottaki told a joint news conference with Turkish Foreign Minister Ali Babacan.

An extensive new reef - deep in the ocean and abundantly packed with unique marine life - has been located by scientists off the southern coast of Bahia state in Brazil.

I was asked recently what I thought the world would be like in 100 years. The question was meant to solicit if I am an optimist or a pessimist.

Cuba's former President Fidel Castro has called on the Colombian Farc rebel movement to release all of its remaining hostages.

Where terrorists take most hostages

The Prince of Wales was accused of "green washing" his finances after publishing accounts which showed he paid less tax last year while earning £1m more

Our Kenyan EDGE Fellow, Grace Ngaruiya, studies the Endangered golden-rumped elephant shrew (Rhynchocyon chrysopygus). She has carried out transect surveys in the Boni forest...Grace sent us this information about the Awer, or Boni, people who live there

Greenpeace activists Junichi Sato and Toru Suzuki are charged with stealing a box of whale meat which they presented as evidence of a whale meat smuggling operation. The activists requested a Japanese government investigation into the scandal.

Kosovo's new constitution is an important milestone on the path to full statehood, but a dispute over who has authority could destabilize the newborn country where ethnic Albanians and Serbs lead segregated lives, and plunge the Balkans into crisis.

JOHANNESBURG - An Atteridgeville mob stoned a Mozambican man to death before setting his body alight in Brazzaville informal settlement, west of Pretoria on Saturday, police said yesterday.