(AFP/Graphic/File) - Factfile on rare earth minerals. China has tightened its grip over the rare earths industry by setting tough emission limits on miners producing the lucrative metals, which are indispensable in making many high-tech products.(AFP... [Full Article]
(AFP/Graphic) - Factfiles on Pakistani cricketers Salman Butt (L), Mohammad Asif (C), and Mohammad Aamer. Former Pakistan captain Wasim Akram admitted that the lengthy bans handed out to Butt, Asif and Aamer for corruption on Saturday represented a n... [Full Article]
(AFP/Graphic) - Bosnia-Hercegovina factfile ahead of a general election. Bosnians voted for change with Bakir Izetbegovic, a moderate, winning the Muslim spot of the central presidency of the ethnically divided Balkan nation, partial results showed.(... [Full Article]
(AFP/Graphic) - Factfile on the Airbus A400M military transport plane. European aerospace giant EADS has reached a deal with seven governments over how to share cost overruns for the A400M military plane, Spanish Defence Minister Carme Chacon said.(A... [Full Article]
(AFP/File) - Factfile on Mauritania map. Journalists in Mauritania held a protest on Monday in Nouakchott to call for the release of the jailed editor of a leading opposition website.(AFP/File)... [Full Article]
(AFP/Graphic) - Factfile with illustration of the Airbus A400M military transport plane which carried out its first test flight in Spain on Friday.(AFP/Graphic)... [Full Article]
(AFP/Graphic) - Factfile on the European space probe's mission to link up with a comet. A billion-euro (1.5-billion-dollar) European spacecraft has made a final flyby of Earth, using the planet as a gravitational slingshot to speed to a rendezvou... [Full Article]
(AFP/Graphic) - Factfile on Moldova with maps of the eastern European country. The legislative elections will affect how Moldova -- a former Soviet republic of 4.3 million people wedged between Ukraine and Romania -- steers its foreign policy between... [Full Article]