Speaking Friday at the World Economic Forum in Switzerland, the power couple, who head up the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, said the aim was to see 90% of children in developing countries immunized against dangerous diseases.

US President Barack Obama delivered his first State of the Union speech, in front of hundreds of legislators in the Capitol and millions of viewers nationwide, on January 27 at 9 p.m. Eastern.

Mahinda Rajapaksa is reported by the state television of Sri Lanka to have been re-elected as President of the South Asian island country.

The United Kingdom has exited the recession after posting a 0.1% economic growth during the last quarter of 2009.

An Ethiopian Airlines plane with 90 people on board crashed into the Mediterranean Sea Monday minutes after taking off from Beirut, Lebanon. At least nine bodies have already been recovered, but no survivors, and wreckage can be seen in the sea near the crash site.

The African nation of Angola has finally implemented a formal constitution after using an interim version for 35 years since the country’s independence in 1975. It will remove direct election of the President.

Jean Simmons, a British actress who became a star in 1950s and has appeared alongside Laurence Olivier in “Hamlet”, Richard Burton and Marlon Brando has died at her Santa Monica, California home on Friday, January 22. She was 80.

Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi has been told by prosecutors to have a medical exam of his facial injuries—prompting further speculation the assault on him last month was staged to create sympathy for the embattled leader.

A second powerful earthquake hit Haiti. According to the U.S. Geological Survey, the quake recorded a 6.1 magnitude temblor at 6:03 in the morning (1103 GMT) 35 miles (56 kilometers) northwest of Prot-au-Prince and 13.7 miles (22 kilometers) below the surface.

Another Caribbean nation was rocked by the earth Tuesday, January 19, as a 5.8 magnitude earthquake hit Cayman Islands, the US Geological Survey said.