GENEVA (Reuters) - A United Nations scientific agency backed on Friday a proposal to ban international trade in Atlantic bluefin tuna, saying the species prized by sushi lovers needed to recover from commercial overfishing. Monaco had proposed protecting bluefin tuna, which can fetch up to $100,000 in Japan, by listing it under appendix I of the Convention on International Trade ...

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Kenyan-born American Bernard Lagat plans to seal his legacy with a record eighth victory in the Wanamaker Mile at Friday's 103rd Millrose Games at Madison Square Garden and then shift his focus to longer distances. Lagat is tied at seven wins with Irishman Eamonn Coghlan, who chalked up his victories between 1977 and 1987, at ...

Negotiations between the Sudanese government and Darfur rebel groups must be completed within two months, ahead of Sudan's presidential and legislative elections, a senior official has said. "Some groups are demanding more time. We have told mediators that time is running out and that negotiations must not exceed the third week of March," Sudan's Minister of Culture Amin ...

No date has yet been set for direct talks between the Sudanese government and rebels after a day of consultations between different delegations in Doha, a Qatari official said on Sunday. "The date to launch negotiations has not been fixed," Ahmed ben Abdallah al-Mahmud, Qatari minister of state for foreign affairs, told reporters. "We will only be able to fix ...