Before, Zimbabwean families would take their ill relatives to rural clinics where medication was readily able and payment plans lenient. But now they are taking them there to die.

They are not leaving anything to chance in this far-flung southern Thai town that has earned a reputation as an oasis of peace and harmony in a region gripped by a bloody insurgency, now in its sixth year.

The Aug 30 elections in Japan will be the most important in a generation, signifying many voters’ dissatisfaction with the current political status quo under the ruling Liberal Democratic Party (LDP).

Israel's continued policy of Judaising East Jerusalem in order to establish facts on the ground before the future of that part of the city is decided, has left dozens of Palestinians homeless and sleeping on the streets.

The natural conditions in Romania and Bulgaria make these countries some of the best placed in Europe for producing wind energy. Interest in investing in wind power is high in both countries, but legislative ambiguity and the limited capacity of national electricity grids are delaying the building of new wind parks.

Leaders of Egypt's Coptic Christian Church have voiced support for Gamal Mubarak, son of President Hosni Mubarak, as preferred candidate for president. Concurrently, however, some Coptic activists are calling for demonstrations against what they see as official state bias against Christians.

Race relations here, unsteady even in the best of times, are worsening with the ruling Umno party ratcheting up racial and religious issues to maintain its influence over majority Malays, who make up some 60 percent of the population of 27 million.

The Omaruru River basin is one of the first in Namibia to establish a basin management committee. Its members have a difficult balancing act to perform with a water resource that’s already being utilised to its maximum.

A working-class neighbourhood on the outskirts of the capital, which stood united against the dictatorship of General Augusto Pinochet in the 1970s and 1980s and today is doing so against climate change, is launching the country's first 'ecobarrio' project.

Muslims marked the start of the fasting month of Ramadan Saturday, but the global H1N1 pandemic has put a damper on religious festivities throughout the Middle East.