U.S. President Barack Obama has again gone on the road to try to persuade Americans to support his economic agenda. The president is campaigning for his plan to encourage hiring. President Obama visited the Northeastern state of New Hampshire on Tues...
I can not escape being troubled by the fact that we have in place a policy that forces young men and women to lie about who they are in order to defend their fellow citizens -- Admiral Mike Mullen The top U.S. military officer has endorsed President...
It's late at night at Mehanata, a small Bohemian music and dance club on New York's Lower East Side, where many of the city's ethnic and alternative musicians are gathered to raise money for Haitian relief. It's one of many grassroots events communit...
Many families in Haiti are still homeless, living on the streets and not getting enough food. Haitians in the United States are trying to send money so they can buy food and water. One business in Washington, D.C. gets money quickly to people in Hait...
In the weeks following the massive earthquake in Haiti, thousands of aid workers from around the world rushed to provide food, medical and logistical assistance. The United Nations estimates the disaster killed some 200,000 people and left more than...
The men take everything, but the women -- nothing -- Camp resident Rosemonde Desmesier Residents of makeshift tent cities throughout Port-au-Prince say that conditions have improved since the earthquake three weeks ago, but shortages of food and reli...
The United Nations reports significant progress has been made in providing assistance to hundreds of thousands of quake victims in Haiti. A senior U.N. official says the relief operation is being scaled up on all levels, with shelter topping the list...
They're planning a strike that will paralyze the government to force President Yar'Adua to hand over power to the Vice President. Labor officials say it appears they are the last hope, according to VOA reporter Chinedu Offor, who is on travel in Imo...
The World Food Program reports more than four times as many people this year are going hungry in southern Sudan than in 2009. WFP says 4.3 million people this year compared to one million last year are in need of food assistance. Lisa Schlein | Genev...
The United Nations says the Lord's Resistance Army is continuing to attack civilians in the Democratic Republic of Congo, despite a recent international offensive against the Ugandan rebel group. The Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affair...
In Malaysia, the politically charged trial of opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim on charges of sodomy has begun. The former deputy prime minister maintains the case is a conspiracy to end his political career. Lawyers for Anwar Ibrahim's said they inten...
A new study shows that former Chadian President Hissene Habre knew about hundreds of deaths in prisons operated by his political police. Mr. Habre has been under house arrest in Senegal since 2000. He fled to Senegal after being deposed in 1990 and h...
We must declare war on unconstitutional change of government on African soil. - African Union Chairman Bingu wa Mutharika. The newly-elected African Union Chairman, Malawi's President Bingu wa Mutharika has pledged to make political stability a prior...
The new chairman of Japan Airlines (JAL) says management will decide soon which U.S. airline the company will partner with. Kazuo Inamori takes over two weeks after JAL, once one of Japan's premier companies, filed for bankruptcy. Akiko Fujita report...
The soybean has fed generations of Asians, fattened countless head of livestock and is now poised to take off as the next generation of jet fuel. Scientists have decoded the legume's genetic sequence. First domesticated by the Chinese more than 3000...
