Economists, anti-poverty advocates and journalists comment on the implications BRICS announcement creating the New Development Bank and currency reserve pool.
The countries will also have a reserve fund with $100 billion The leaders of the five BRICS countries have signed a deal to form a new $100 billion development bank and a reserve fund with equal money, according to BBC.
The WHO released numbers showing a continued increase in deaths and cases of the Ebola virus, and the numbers will only grow as locals shun treatment and block health workers from helping. In addition, the bodies have to be guarded from family who want to take them for burial, which would increase the risk of exposure and contracting the virus.
Number of overweight and obese people in Mexico has doubled since 1980 As Mexico has made its way toward becoming a developed country, its obesity rates are climbing alarmingly close to its northern neighbor.
Despite Mexico's promise to help the United States' illegal immigration problem by securing its Guatemalan border, plans have yet to be specified, and illegal immigration continues.
The metro workers were held after Tuesday's incident that resulted in hundreds of casualties A track supervisor and his assistant have been arrested in connection with a train accident Tuesday on Moscow's metro line that killed more than 20 people, BBC reported.
The leaders from Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa announced in a joint statement the creation of their own development bank. The announcement was made after a plenary meeting of the five BRICS heads of state in Fortaleza, Brazil. Its funding aim will be infrastructure projects in developing nations, and they will begin lending in 2016.
Pontiff steps in as U.S. immigration crisis approached boiling point. Speaking on Monday at a Vatican conference in Mexico City, Pope Francis said that thousands of unaccompanied child migrants should "be welcomed and protected" when they come to the U.
More than 150 others are taken to the hospital, with 50 in critical condition A Moscow subway train derailed during the Tuesday morning commute, killing at least 20 people and sending 150 others to the hospital, according to a Fox News report.
Malala Yousafzai, a Pakistani teen who survived a Taliban attack on her life, has taken a trip to Nigeria to urge the Muslim radical group Boko Haram to release 216 kidnapped schoolgirls.
Double amputee was allegedly pushed. Oscar Pistorius was involved in a verbal fight about his trial with a man at a nightclub in Johannesburg Saturday, his spokeswoman confirmed.
New York elected officials showed solidarity with Israel at City Hall while New Yorkers held a counter rally outside City Hall to show their solidarity with the Palestinian people in Gaza.
Nadine Gordimer, an intentionally renowned South African writer who helped expose the world to the evils of apartheid through her literature, died at the age of 90.
German Chancellor Angela Merkel commented on the U.S. surveillance on her country and how it could affect relations with Washington, D.C., while Secretary of State John Kerry indirectly commented on the countries' relationship.
