(MENAFN - AFP) A ceiling collapsed at a shoe factory in Cambodia on Thursday killing at least two workers, police said, stoking concerns about industrial safety after last month's disaster in Bangladesh.

"Two workers -- a man and a woman -- were killed and six others were injured," Khem Pannara, district police chief for the area in the southern province of Kampong Speu ...

(MENAFN - AFP) Hope and human resilience are the guiding themes of the new permanent exhibit at Geneva's International Red Cross and Red Crescent Museum, which will finally re-open its doors this week after a nearly two-year makeover.

"It was important to have the museum be a museum of hope, to show that it is possible to rebuild a new life after living through something ...

(MENAFN - AFP) Tesla Motors said Wednesday that founder Elon Musk would invest $100 million in the surging electric car maker, and that it would repay a loan from the US Department of Energy ahead of schedule.

The California maker of high-priced electric vehicles said it would launch a new stock offering of some 2.7 million shares along with $450 million in convertible ...

(MENAFN - AFP) Japan said on Thursday that its economy grew again in the quarter to March, pointing to a recovery as Tokyo and its hand-picked central bank team set about stoking the world's third-largest economy.

The 0.9 percent on-quarter growth -- or 3.5 percent on an annualised basis if the data were stretched over a year -- confirmed Japan's exit from recession as ...

(MENAFN - AFP) President Francois Hollande's nagging headache to reboot the French economy has turned into a migraine as the economy slipped into its second recession in four years, fuelling speculation of an impending cabinet reshuffle.

Having just marked his first year as French president, Hollande's ambition to reverse the trend of soaring unemployment is now deemed ...

(MENAFN - AFP) The virus has already killed her mother, and Kelly Gu's father lies critically ill with H7N9 bird flu in a Shanghai hospital bed -- the only couple both infected in China's outbreak of the disease.

As her mother lay dying Gu was urgently summoned back to Shanghai from her doctoral studies in chemistry in France, but she was too late, missing the chance to ...

(MENAFN - AFP) Health care workers and institutions came under violent attack in 22 countries last year, including 150 killings, the Red Cross said, lamenting that such violence deprives millions of people in need of care.

In a follow-up on a report issued two years ago on violence against medical professionals in 16 countries, the International Committee of the Red Cross ...

(MENAFN - AFP) A Jackson Pollock drip painting sold at Christie's in New York for a record $58.4 million and a work by one-time graffiti artist Jean-Michel Basquiat set another record at $48.8 million.

"Number 19, 1948" features Pollock's iconic drip-paint style, creating a shimmering mixture of silver, black, white, red and green.

It had been expected to sell for ...

(MENAFN - AFP) Google Glass was a common sight as software savants shared visions of games, weather reports, news and more delivered to the Internet-linked eyewear.

Many of the 6,000 developers attending an annual Google I/O event in San Francisco on Wednesday sported Glass as part of an "explorer" program to tinker with creative applications for the eyewear, which cost ...

(MENAFN - AFP) Nicole Kidman and "Amelie" star Audrey Tautou kicked off 12-days of red carpet fashion at the opening of the Cannes Film Festival.

The prestigious Riviera movie meet provides both big fashion houses and up-and-coming designers with unparalleled opportunities to showcase their work before a global audience.

The race to dress the biggest names, who can ...