Italian doctors have saved the life of a 16-month-old boy after they implanted the world's smallest artificial heart in him, Daily Mail reported Friday.

Police in southwest China have busted a gang involved in the illegal online sale of smuggled firearms, authorities said Friday.

Pakistan is plagued by a massive power crisis, with a shortfall of 7,500 MW, a media report said Friday.

Former Pakistani prime minister Benazir Bhutto was killed because the government of then president Parvez Musharraf did not provide her adequate security, her son Bilawal Bhutto Zardari has alleged.

Chinese police have arrested a gang suspected of being behind an online network that sold smuggled firearms to gun enthusiasts across the country, it was announced on Friday.

South Africans marked Africa Day on Friday, with events of the first global African Diaspora Summit (ADS), cultural activities and a parliament debate with the theme of "Celebrating African Cultural Renaissance through Dialogue".

With recession and sky-high unemployment, the Syrians officials, while confessing that the European Union (EU) and U.S. sanctions have hit the Syrian people hard, are still sending assurances that the country's economy is stable.

The mutiny by soldiers of the DR Congo Armed Forces (FARDC) at Katchanga area of North-Kivu province in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DR Congo) could have resulted into deaths of almost 100 people, a source from the North-Kivu civil society has said.

 suicide bomber attacked a police station in Anatolian Kayseri province in central Turkey on Friday, leaving at least two people killed and 10 others injured, local newspaper Hurriyet Daily News said on its website.

Pakistani lawyers have said they would appeal against the conviction for treason handed to Dr Shakeel Afridi, the physician recruited by the CIA to track down Osama Bin Laden.