Businesses can unlock $12 trillion via key development goals - Davos study
Businesses have key role to play in ending poverty and protecting the planet, and pressure for them to become responsible social actors is likely to grow
Leadership change looms for armed group key to Myanmar's peace process
Strongest Myanmar armed group to hold first elections since 1992 but leadership reshuffle brings uncertainty
World's eight richest as wealthy as half humanity, Oxfam tells Davos
Just eight individuals, including Microsoft's Bill Gates and Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg, own as much wealth as the poorest half of the world's population
Trump says Merkel made 'catastrophic mistake' with refugee policy
"I think she made one very catastrophic mistake, and that was taking all of these illegals."
Congo govt says M23 rebel fighters cross over border from Uganda
The rebels had been in camps for demobilised fighters in Uganda following their defeat in 2013
Syria fighting derails plans to fix damaged Damascus water source
The water spring was knocked out of service in late December
Asylum requests in Austria more than halved in 2016
The Alpine country was the last stop before Germany for many fleeing war and poverty at the beginning of the refugee crisis
Bodies of five migrants found off Spain's southern coast
Bodies of four men and one woman were discovered on beaches and floating just off the coast of Tarifa
More rain and pain expected as Thai flood death toll rises to 40
Heavy rain has triggered floods across the south, cutting road and rail links, threatening crops and affecting about 1.6 million people
Scores of migrants feared dead, 13 bodies found in Mediterranean
Four people have been rescued but the survivors reported that more than a hundred were on board when the boat capsized