Climate change boosts conflict risk, floods, hunger: UNSoaring carbon emissions will amplify the risk of conflict, hunger, floods and migration this century, the UN's expert panel said Monday in a landmark report on the impact of climate change.
31 March 2014
'Nairobbery' grapples with pre-Christmas crime waveSydney advertising executive Patrick Richer led the typical Nairobi expatriate lifestyle, living in a home in a leafy part of the city, protected by high walls and round-the-clock security.
29 November 2013
More than 10,000 feared dead in typhoon-ravaged PhilippinesSurvivors of a super typhoon that may have killed more than 10,000 people in the Philippines were growing increasingly desperate for aid Monday, as authorities struggled to cope with potentially the country's worst recorded natural disaster.
Halving world hunger by 2015 'within reach': UN Despite economic crises and dwindling aid, the UN said Monday huge progress had been made towards meeting the so-called Millennium Development Goals.
01 July 2013
Doctors urge access to Guantanamo hunger strikers More than 150 doctors from the United States and Britain have written to President Barack Obama urging him to grant independent medical care to hunger-striking Guantanamo detainees.
20 June 2013
Half of Guantanamo on hunger strike: US official More than half of the 166 detainees held at the US-run Guantanamo military prison have joined a rapidly growing hunger strike to protest their indefinite detention.
22 April 2013
Guantanamo hunger strike grows to 52: official More Guantanamo detainees have joined a growing hunger strike at the reviled US military prison, with nearly a third of the 166 war-on-terror suspects participating.
18 April 2013
Madagascar's hungry eat grasshoppers after deadly cyclone With small, silent steps, 10-year-old Borikely carefully picks her way through the tall grass of a Madagascar field in search of her dinner. She's hunting for grasshoppers, which she'll catch with a stick.
Hunger, homelessness on rise in US: study Hunger and homelessness are on the rise in the United States, and cash-strapped cities and social services are being forced to turn needy people away empty-handed.
21 December 2012
Tymoshenko ends hunger strike: doctors Jailed Ukrainian opposition leader Yulia Tymoshenko agreed to end her hunger strike, her doctors said, more than two weeks after she began her protest over alleged fraud in polls won by the country's ruling party.
US to continue 'feeding the future'Secretary Clinton made a statement on World Food Day. Food security is a foreign policy priority for the United States.