The general rise in food prices (in part because of American use of corn for ethanol) is leading to more micronutrient deficiencies.

The poorest of the poor – women and children – try to fill their bellies with mud-pies formerly used as an antacid and a source of calcium…

The global crisis has revived this and other wildcat mines in Brazil where hundreds of thousands of desperate workers toil in precarious conditions, damaging health and environment

…there is an equally cruel form of terrorism that gets almost no attention and thrives as a result: flinging acid on a woman’s face to leave her hideously deformed.

The business model of forced prostitution is similar from Pakistan to Vietnam to the United States.

The ordinary Afghan people don’t trust their own government. But there’s still hope for a change. A key role will be played by the new American president-elected: Barack Obama

We can use that desire also to shame and coax better behavior out of China’s leaders.

Sudan is capitalizing on high global food prices at a time when millions of people in its war-riddled region of Darfur barely have enough to eat.

Gold is gaining new interest nowadays. For those who became soiled over and over by digging for it gold hardly offers any bright prospects.

One of the most remarkable of this year’s new college graduates, Beatrice Biira, credits her success to something utterly improbable: a goat…

We have so much to gain by reaching an accord, and so much to loose by failing to close a deal.

As newspapers struggle, their reach, paradoxically, is greater than ever.