By Sabina Castelfranco Rome 18 September 2009 Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi during a press conference in Rome, 19 Sep 2009 The killing of six Italian soldiers in Afghanistan has re-ignited the debate over whether troops should be withdraw...
By Alan Boswell Nairobi 18 September 2009 Black smoke rises from inside AMISOM base in Mogadishu after two powerful explosions rip through AU peacekeepers force commander building in Somalia, 17 Sep 2009 A day after a brazen suicide attack in the Af...
By Zulima Palacio Washington 17 September 2009 World population is growing - highest in underdeveloped countries A new report indicates that, in less than two years, global population will reach seven billion people, a number that imposes new challe...
By Paige Kollock New York 17 September 2009 Salva Dut Thirty-four-year-old Salva Dut lives in New York. He was one of Sudan's Lost Boys - one of the many thousands of children orphaned during the country's 20 year civil war. For more than a decade,...
By Cathy Majtenyi Nairobi 17 September 2009 Low-income Kenyans living with HIV/AIDS face a range of challenges. In the Catholic Diocese of Mombasa on Kenya's coast, people affected by AIDS have formed groups that enable members to increase their inc...
By Lisa Schlein Geneva 17 September 2009 The U.N. Conference on Trade and Development, or UNCTAD, reports that global foreign direct investment fell drastically last year and that it is expected to continue to slide this year, with significant recov...
By Heda Bayron Hong Kong 17 September 2009 Man walks past electronic board showing stock index at securities company in Chengdu, China's Sichuan province, 17 Nov 2008 Signs of an economic recovery in Asia come as leaders of the G20 leading industria...
By Ron Corben Bangkok 17 September 2009 Political violence has done considerable damage to tourism in Asia and the Pacific over the past few years. But industry experts say the damage is not necessarily permanent. Governments and industry leaders sa...
By Laurel Bowman Washington 17 September 2009 Most would argue that cell phones have changed our lives for the better. They have enhanced personal security, quickened emergency response and given us the ease of instant communication. But the radiati...
By Greg Flakus Houston 17 September 2009 Theodore Roosevelt In an age when green, as in environmentally friendly, is all the rage, one of the most prominent U.S. historians has written a book about a man who provided the foundation for much of the c...