Kenya's government is announcing new emergency steps to address the country's growing food crisis. But critics say the government's actions are too li...
In Somalia, militant Islamists have begun enforcing new laws in the areas they control that are challenging the views of many traditionally moderate M...
The 2004 tsunami that ravaged Indonesia's Aceh province helped convince Acehnese separatists and the central government in Jakarta to work together to...
One day after the U.S. central bank signaled a possible end to America's longest recession since World War II, new data suggest continued weakness in ...
U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton says Liberian President Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf's government is making significant progress in the fight against...
U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates indicated Thursday he might be receptive if his new commander in Afghanistan asks for more troops, but he is still...
At least five Muslim preachers from Pakistan have been shot to death outside a mosque in Somalia's semi-autonomous region of Puntland. There are repor...
As Australia's federal parliament prepares to vote this week on a sweeping carbon trading program, scientists say that aboriginal fire management prac...
New satellite data reveal that groundwater in Northwest India is being depleted faster than it is being replenished by rainwater. Experts say the prob...
U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is in Nigeria where she will meet with President Umaru Yar'Adua Wednesday on the fifth stop of her Africa trip...
