More than 14m people in the Horn of Africa are in need of food aid because of drought and high prices.

Being an exhausted mother of 10 children by your early thirties is not unusual in rural Madagascar, but a movement is now underway to try and provide women with a contraceptive choice.

Amid the dismal performance numbers released this week by New York City Transit, there was a bright spot: the Franklin Avenue shuttle, arriving 99.7 percent on-time.

Many middle-class Americans with jobs and health insurance have trouble paying their medical bills, according to a new survey. For one couple in Florida, that means putting off dental work. And a woman in Ohio shelved her doctor's request for more medical tests.

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The "The Good, the Bad, the Weird" revives the genre of "Manchurian westerns," which were popular in South Korea in the 1960s and 1970s.

The World Bank and its partners need to do a far better job of considering the environmental effects of projects they finance in poor countries, its internal review group said.

ISLAMABAD (AFP) - Human rights group Amnesty International on Wednesday called on Pakistan to reveal the details of hundreds of so-called enforced disappearances during the US-led "war on terror".

Olympic organizers will allow a modicum of dissent at the Beijing games, setting up special protest zones in a shift supporters and detractors said today is meant to safely channel pent-up criticisms of China and avoid disrupting the games.