The U.S. population reached the historic milestone of 300 million on Tuesday morning, according to the U.S. Census Bureau's Population Clock.

The European Union (EU) on Tuesday announced the allocation of 28.3 million euros (35.5 billion U.S. dollars) for a new fund for research projects in the field of avian and pandemic influenza.

Zimbabwe is seeking cooperation with China in housing development to reduce the huge urban housing backlog which stands at over one million people, The Herald reported on Tuesday.

A Ugandan soldier deployed in a refugee camp in war-torn northern Uganda has shot dead seven people, including his wife, child and father in-law, a military spokesman said on Tuesday.

Fuel prices are likely to continue to rise in Zambia in the short to medium term unless an exchange rate standing based on the true reflection of the economy's foreign exchange earnings is made, local economist has said.

British troops of ISAF have pulled out of the insurgent Musa Qala district in the southern Helmand province, an ISAF spokesman told Xinhua on Tuesday.

Diarrhea has taken a serious turn at a village in northwestern Bangladesh where a man died and 90 people were attacked by the disease during the last 24 hours, local news agency UNB reported Tuesday.

The National Ballet of China will perform in Macao at the Cultural Center next month, local media reported Tuesday.

Beijing will improve its social security network over the next five years to provide basic medical insurance to students and pre-school children by 2010, said a news briefing Monday.

More than 50 female commercial sex workers(CSW) who work in local entertainment centers attended an AIDS prevention training course in Harbin recently, causing a social outcry.