A combination of population growth, lack of pricing policy reforms, an increases in household incomes, droughts and in many cases the absence of adequate water treatment facilities has greatly reduced the availability of water suitable for consumption...

As is the case in many countries across Africa, homosexuality is illegal in Kenya. Yesterday five men were arrested before an alleged gay marriage could take place.

Toyota has announced that they will slow production in response to growing inventory and slowing sales. The plants in San Antonio Texas, Georgetown Kentucky and Huntsville Alabama will be affected.

A Burmese born U.S. citizen who was arrested in September 2009 as he arrived at the Rangoon airport in Myanmar has been sentenced to 3 years hard labor for what many are describing as politically motivated charges.

As extreme winter temperatures fell as low as -50c nearly 2 million head of livestock have died. Thousands of families in Mongolia could be facing a food and economic insecurity.

Relief workers traveling to Haiti should take precautions to avoid potentially serious illness and stress related disorders. According to the CDC relief workers who have traveled to Haiti to assist in the aftermath of the earthquake might be exposed to...

Photo by mst7022, Flickr creative commons For many in the village of Mondul 3 in Siem Reap Cambodia poverty is a way of life, for Sov Soparath this poverty ended in tragedy. Sov and friends caught and ate brown frogs after a heavy rain, 2 hours later...

On April 28, 2004, the first photographs depicting torture of detainees by U.S. military personnel in Iraq’s Abu Ghraib prison emerged, sparking international outrage. In today’s featured video - a clip from Errol Morris’ documentary...

On January 24, 2009 at 2am, mixed forces surrounded Dey Krahorm - the community with the longest, resistance to unlawful eviction. Just after 6am, more than 250 armed forces and 300 breakers attacked the villagers in a brutal show of force, despite...

Palestinian journalist and media activist Laila el Haddid was detained sixteen hours ago at Cairo International Airport en route to her native Gaza. Using Twitter and Cairo Airport’s free wirless internet, Mrs. Haddid has made her experience...