By Steve Herman New Delhi 08 November 2009 With a key global climate change conference just a month away, India's leader is making a blunt call for concessions from the industrialized nations. Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh attends opening ses...
By Lisa Schlein Geneva 08 November 2009 Sheila Sisulu (file photo) A senior Official at the World Food Program says a pilot project in 21 developing countries, including 15 in Sub-Saharan Africa, to alleviate hunger is showing promising results. In...
By Robert Berger Jerusalem 08 November 2009 Israel's leader is heading to the United States, but trouble is brewing back home with the Palestinians. Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu left for Washington amid a d...
By Peter Heinlein Addis Ababa 08 November 2009 Former Madagascan Pres. Marc Ravalomanana (L) walks into a meeting in Addis Ababa for talks with Madagascar's main political parties, 04 Nov 2009 Madagascar's former president Marc Ravalomanana, who was...
By Cathy Majtenyi Kenya 07 November 2009 The scourge of so-called flying toilets - where human waste is put into a plastic bag and tossed into the air, landing on roads or in gutters - has plagued the slums of Kenya's capital Nairobi for decades. Bu...
By Alan Boswell Nairobi 07 November 2009 Luis Moreno Ocampo, prosecutor of the ICC, speaks during a press conference at Safari Park Hotel in Nairobi, Kenya, 7 Nov 2009 The International Criminal Court's (ICC) chief prosecutor, Luis Moreno Ocampo, en...
By Sean Maroney Kabul 07 November 2009 A US Army Chinook helicopter lands on a hill in Kabul on November 7, 2009 The Afghan government says a NATO air strike has mistakenly killed seven members of the Afghan security forces in Badghis province. NATO...
By Sonja Pace Berlin 06 November 2009 Work at the Brandenburg Gate The German capital Berlin prepares for major commemorative celebrations on Monday, November 9 - to mark the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Wall that divided the city and the ent...
By Peter Fedynsky Moscow 06 November 2009 Berliners sing and dance on top of the Berlin Wall to celebrate the opening of East-West German borders, 10 Nov 1989 Since the collapse of the Berlin Wall 20 years ago, many former communist countries of Cen...
By Jennifer Glasse London 06 November 2009 Emma and Bryn Parry Emma and Bryn Parry have deep connections to the British military. Their son Tom is a second lieutenant, now serving in Afghanistan. Bryn Parry is a former soldier himself. So after the...
By Mariama Diallo Washington 06 November 2009 American filmmaker Bryan Single explores the rehabilitation process of former child soldiers in northern Ugandan in his new movie Children of War. The film premiered recently in Washington. Children of W...
By Anjana Pasricha New Delhi 06 November 2009 A worker displays gold bars at the National Indian Bullion Refinery (NIBR)'s gold and silver refinery in Mumbai, 06 Nov 2009 India has purchased 200 tons of gold from the International Monetary Fund to d...
By Selah Hennessy London 06 November 2009 Senior negotiators at a U.N. conference in Barcelona say a legally binding environment treaty will be delayed. In the final day of a weeklong conference, world leaders say a global climate treaty might be po...
By Kent Klein White House 06 November 2009 President Obama, speaking at the White House, 6 Nov 2009 U.S. President Barack Obama says new figures that show the nation's unemployment rate reached double digits in October are a reminder of the challeng...
By Elizabeth Lee Washington 06 November 2009 Patriarch Bartholomew Patriarch Bartholomew, the spiritual leader of close to 300 million Orthodox Christian around the world, recently visited Washington, D.C. to speak about environmental issues. The Pa...
