Madagascar

The World Health Organization (WHO) sent over a million doses of antibiotics to the African island nation of Madagascar after it was hit by an outbreak of pneumonic plague, the most virulent form of the deadly disease.

Istanbul-based Turkish Cargo, a division of national flag-carrier Turkish Airlines, will launch scheduled freighter flights to South Africa and Madagascar from Saturday, the company said on June 30.

In the 17th and 18th centuries, Ile Sainte-Marie (or St. Mary’s Island as it is known in English), a long, thin island off the eastern African coast, became a popular base for pirates. Up to 1,000 pirates reportedly called the rocky island home, including widely-feared brigands Adam Baldridge, William Kidd, Olivier Levasseur, Henry Every, Robert Culliford, Abraham Samuel and Thomas Tew.

The Gaziantep Zoo, Turkey's biggest and Europe's second biggest, has been welcoming new guests. Home to some 7,000 animals of 350 species, zoo staff have recently been excited about new-born babies. Among the new guests that were born in May are a horse, camel, lemur, gazelle, kangaroo and deer. The zoo officials are expecting to welcome new babies in the coming weeks. 

The Bucharest Appeal Court was set to issue a sentence on Friday in Romania's longest-ever corruption trial that has lasted nine years and counted over 100 hearings. But the court postponed the decision until May 31.

About 300 million years ago, Earth did not have seven continents (or eight if you count Zealandia), but one supercontinent called Pangea, which was surrounded by one ocean called Panthalassa. About 200 million years ago, the supercontinent began to break up and the world as we know it today started to take shape.

In its recent publication, the Geological Society of America (GSA) has said that although New Zealand is considered asAustralia's smaller neighbour, the country is sitting on a massive new continent, named "Zealandia".

BELGRADE - Serbian President Tomislav Nikolic received Madagascar's Parliament Speaker Jean-Max Rakotomamonjy in Belgrade on Wednesday.

Parliamentary cooperation is very important and it contributes to expanding overall bilateral relations, a statement from Nikolic's presidential press office quoted him as saying.

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BELGRADE - Serbian Deputy PM and Minister of Construction, Transport and Infrastructure Zorana Mihajlovic on Wednesday met with Madagascar's Parliament Speaker Jean-Max Rakotomamonjy to discuss possibilities for expanding bilateral cooperation.

7-February-2017 18:14 BELGRADE - Serbian First Deputy PM and FM Ivica Dacic on Tuesday received Madagascar's Parliament Speaker Jean-Max Rakotomamonjy to discuss the political and economic cooperation between the two countries.