Amnesty International believes 1-million North Koreans have died of starvation since the 1990s, while millions more remain malnourished.
As the U.N. General Assembly session in September approaches, Israel is flexing its muscles against a Palestinian bid for statehood, but such a move could only spell trouble for both sides.
Philippine President Benigno Aquino III Monday endorsed a reproductive-health bill designed to reduce the country's high birthrate and introduce mandatory sex education in schools, despite strong opposition from the Roman Catholic Church.
The effects of the drought that has pummeled the U.S. corn belt will be felt for a while, but the grain most affected by it isn't one the world's hungriest depend on to survive.
Kiir wears the ten-gallon Stetson so often in public that it has become his trademark.
Jesuit priest Paolo Dall'Oglio, who spent the last 30 years in Syria and was recently exiled, said the country still very much needs the U.N.'s help to find a peaceful solution, but the end of Bashar al-Assad's days as president is near.
Globalization -- basically, free markets and the transfer of jobs to lower-cost labor/production centers -- has lifted more than 1 billion people out of poverty. However, globalization, at least initially, also contains a contradiction that, in time, could undermine not only the uniting of markets, but trade and global GDP growth itself.
Honduras, which has the world’s highest homicide rate already -- estimated at 86.5 murders per 100,000 inhabitants according to the United Nations -- has witnessed a particularly gruesome spike in carnage in Colon, from two different fronts.
A whiff of change from the world's most mysterious regime?
Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei warned that the birth control program, in place for the past 20 years, has outlived its purpose.
While the world considers the broader regional implications of the Syria crisis, the status and position of religious minorities is becoming an increasingly important issue.
Health minister Marzieh Vahid Dastjerdi told Iranian reporters that the government will now spend 190 billion rials (about $15 billion) to encourage Iranians to have larger families.
Barhoum also alleged that the journey to Auschwitz overshadowed the ?true Palestinian tragedy".
Despite the recent passage of a new constitution, corruption in Somalia's interim government could derail progress even before it begins.
Crack addiction has become a grave public health and security concern in parts of Brazil, particularly the poverty-stricken shanty-towns that ring the large cities.
Images of the People's Liberation Army of China, from past to present.
Beijing may soon receive its first official visit from North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, if recent high-level visits are any indication.
Cocaine use is down in the United States and production is down in Colombia, but is America really winning the war on drugs?
"This is not only damaging us but the whole [Russian] judicial system. It's a disgrace," one of Pussy Riot's lawyers, Nikolai Polozov, commented at the start of the trial on Monday.
A UN team will visit North Korea from Tuesday to assess the damage from recent floods caused by a heavy downpour that has left 88 people dead and 63,000 displaced.
This stomach-churning conclusion may sound far-fetched, but it's actually the result of United Nations research into feeding the world in the coming decades.
A bit of good news, from one of the scariest places on the planet, to mark the anniversary of 59 years of non-peace.
