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Dublin's Docklands showcase a new, hip quarter

Mar 1, 2010 8:48am

This photo taken Feb. 26, 2010 shows the Irish Famine statues in Dublin's Dockland's area....

Somali insurgents bar WFP

Feb 28, 2010 12:46pm

Somali insurgents on Sunday barred the World Food Programme from the famine and war-plagued Horn of Africa country, where the UN says four million people, half the population, needs emergency food aid....

Volunteers fill buckets for Haitians at Cumberland Valley Relief Center

Feb 28, 2010 6:36am

The earthquake that ravaged Haiti on Jan. 12 may have lasted only 35 seconds, but the devastation will continue much longer....

Shooting with a conscience

Feb 27, 2010 10:21pm

He is perhaps the only photographer who is planning to publish a book on pictures he didn't take....

Mom Avoids Murder Charge After Starving Girl to Death

Feb 27, 2010 7:32am

Prosecutors accepted Angela Gordon's defense of diminished responsibility over the death of Khyra Ishaq....

Nothing to Envy

Feb 26, 2010 4:42pm

Many Americans may remember peering at a famous satellite photograph of the two Koreas - " prosperous South Korea lit up by cities and commerce, juxtaposed with the eerie black void of North Korea....

Council awaits starvation review

Feb 26, 2010 7:13am

A local authority is awaiting the outcome of a serious case review into the unlawful killing of a seven-year-old girl who was starved to death by her mother and stepfather....

Khyra Ishaq: locked away without food and punished with a cane

Feb 25, 2010 7:12am

When neighbours saw the face of a seven-year-old girl at a bedroom window they thought little of it....

Desperate Somalis turn to prostitution in Yemen

Feb 24, 2010 8:46pm

Somali refugee Saada hates what she does but can see no other way to feed her six children - working as a prostitute in the southern Yemeni city of Aden....

Utah teens to fight hunger by going hungry

Feb 24, 2010 1:54pm

Desire Jensen has never been to Haiti or Ethiopia, but she knows a little about being hungry....

My beloved unhappy mother a murderer?

Feb 23, 2010 1:40pm

February 2010 Select month NOTA BENE! My beloved unhappy mother a murderer? By Tamara ORLOVA, Odesa ODESA - 'Tomochka, do you remember anything from your past, I mean that horrible famine [Holodomor] seven years ago?' my mother asked me back in 1940....

East Africa: Experts Voice Food Security Concerns

Feb 22, 2010 1:35pm

Bumper harvests being reported in several east African countries will do little to improve long-term food security in countries like Kenya, where almost six million of its 38 million inhabitants receive some form of food aid....

N Korea life expectancy falls - " census

Feb 22, 2010 9:13am

First survey for 15 years in North Korea shows population increase to 24m but a rise in infant mortality A census in North Korea reveals a fall in life expectancy as well as increases in infant and maternal mortality....

Where will the next food crisis strike and how to face it?

Feb 22, 2010 4:28am

The European Commission Joint Research Centre , the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations and the American Famine Early Warning Systems Network are working to innovate and reinforce their food security monitoring systems and to develop more efficient early warning tools....