The heads of two U.S.-based charity organizations are this year's winners of the World Food Prize, the prestigious $250,000 award honoring accomplishments that have improved the global food supply. This year's World Food Prize went to David Beckmann,...
A sexually provocative singer and actress's campaign for political office in Indonesia has triggered debate over the growing role of celebrities in the young democracy. If Indonesian celebrity Julia Perez is famous for one thing, it is being sexy. He...
Researchers find no strong evidence that lifestyle changes - like diet, exercise and stimulating the brain - make a big difference in preventing cognitive decline in older people. A new study has failed to find any conclusive evidence that lifestyle...
The discovery of an AIDS-like virus in koalas is raising newfound fears the animal may soon face extinction. KIDS, or Koala Immune Deficiency Syndrome, decimates the koala's ability to fight off infection and disease. Dr. Jon Hanger, the researcher w...
A low-cost, easy-to-use drug could save tens of thousands of lives each year, according to a new study. The medicine promotes blood clotting and has been shown prevent many accident victims from bleeding to death. Tranexamic acid, or TXA, is not new....
Deforestation is one of the big culprits in climate change. And now a new study from the Amazon links deforestation with an increase in malaria. Despite eradication efforts, malaria remains a significant health problem in Brazil. There are around a h...
US president Barack Obama called for a new beginning between the United States and Muslims, in his landmark address to Muslim world from the Grand Hall of Cairo University, Cairo [file photo] A new international survey of 24,000 people in 22 countrie...
When rainfall is plentiful, rice grows into lush plants above the shallow water in which it's planted. Since Louisiana leads the United States in the production of rice, a lot of people wonder whether the oil that has spread into the state's marshes...
BP CEO Tony Hayward testifies before the House Oversight and Investigations subcommittee hearing on the role of BP in the Deepwater Horizon Explosion and oil spill on Capitol Hill in Washington, 17 Jun 2010 BP's chief executive officer Tony Hayward f...
Sheikh Ahmed bin Saeed Al Maktoum, Emirates Airline Chairman and CEO (l), German Chancellor Angela Merkel (center), and Airbus President and Chief Executive Tom Enders (r) pose with an A-380 model during the opening of the International Air Show ILA...
Storm clouds have been brewing over Europe and not even the biggest and most prudent economies are exempt from their threat. Europe's decade-old currency, the euro, is in crisis with some eurozone members mired in massive debt and others having to pr...
Presidential candidates Jaroslaw Kaczynski from the Law and Justice party and Bronislaw Komorowski, Parliament Speaker and acting president, stand together after a joint debate in the Polish TV, in Warsaw, Poland, 13 Jun 2010 Poland is preparing to e...
Uzbek refugees seen near the eastern Uzbek city of Andijon while waiting to cross the border into Uzbekistan, 14 Jun 2010 Kyrgyzstan and its neighbors have long been buffeted by ethnic tensions, but political and social factors also have played a rol...
Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan, right, and Massoud Barzani, president of the semi-autonomous Iraqi Kurdish region, during a meeting in Ankara, Turkey, 03 Jun 2010 Turkish military forces crossed into Northern Iraq this week in pursuit of...
Palestinians sit next to bags of food aid, distributed by the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA), in the West Bank village of Sanour near Jenin, 17 Jun 2010 U.S. President Barack Obama has pledged to move forward with $400 million in aid...
