On Aug. 6, U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton met with Somali President Sheikh Sharif Ahmed in Kenya and pledged to provide more military aid and training to the Somali Transitional Federal Government (TFG).

Former U.S. President Bill Clinton’s trip to North Korea to secure the release of two U.S. journalists has called attention to the lack of engagement over the past five-months since Pyongyang quit the six-party talks. While Clinton’s trip is widely seen as a positive development and the first step in re-engaging Pyongyang in negotiating the future of their nuclear programme, more questions than answers remain about what was discussed during North Korean leader Kim Jong-Il and Clinton’s three hour meeting and how the meeting will impact the future of regional diplomacy in Northeast Asia.

While Africa is still far from having adequate capacity for scientific innovation, women are more and more present in the field of research for the continent's sustainable development.

The Ecosystems Map of the Northern and Central Andes could serve as a guide for environmental conservation of this South American area covering 1.5 million square kilometres and holding the world's highest concentration of biodiversity.

Ljubov Obradinovic only cried when her neighbours complimented her that she was hardworking. 'Vredna', they said. Except that in Ukraininan that word means 'wicked'.

Noma, an ulcerous disease whose name comes from a Greek word that means 'to devour' because it literally eats away at malnourished children's faces in just a few months, is found in the developing world, mainly in Africa.

Iran is unlikely to be able to produce enough highly enriched uranium (HEU) for a nuclear weapon until at least 2013, according to a U.S. government intelligence estimate made public Thursday.

Southern Kerala state is known for the lush expanses of cardamom, pepper, tea and rubber that grow on its misty hills, and the bountiful catches of fish on a coastline punctuated by lagoons and backwaters. But a cloud hovers over this picture of plenty - a free trade deal with the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) bloc.

The agreement announced Monday between Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki and a Shi’a resistance group called the 'League of the Righteous' (As’ib al Haq) formally ended the group’s armed opposition to the regime in return for the release of its leader and eight other Shi’a detainees. This deals a final blow to the U.S. military’s narrative of an Iranian 'proxy war' in Iraq.

In spite of the resilience shown by the Argentine economy during the current global recession, deep-rooted distrust has led to the flight of 44 billion dollars over the last two years, which have been deposited abroad, locked up in vaults or tucked under the mattress.