Responding to charges that it has stifled free speech, Beijing plans to allow demonstrations at three parks, at a distance from main Olympic venues. But organizers will need permission.

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More than 14m in the Horn of Africa need 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".