Seriously injured people continue to provide deep challenges to the city's barely functioning hospitals, weeks after a massive earthquake overwhelmed medical staff.

As Haitians struggle to comprehend what has happened to their lives — and begin to try to put them back together — the United Nations is reaching out to 'a vast and influential network' of about 60,000 voodoo priests.

Lack of oversight of United States Agency for International Development (USAID) contractors in Afghanistan is not a new story.

The 2010 Winter Olympics opened with the largest protest convergence in the history of the Games.

A salty, crunchy salad herb known to gourmands as samphire could revolutionise agriculture in the Middle East by providing food, fodder and fuel without using a single drop of freshwater.

An Oscar nominee for best foreign-language film, Israel's 'Ajami', is a tragic, yet realistic, pointer to the multi-layered conflict of Jews and Arabs, Israelis and Palestinians.

Had Uttam Sanjel stayed on in the Indian city of Mumbai to pursue his dream of becoming a Bollywood director years ago, the Samata (‘equality) schools that he set up here in Nepal may not be around today.

Views within Iceland towards membership of the European Union (EU) are mixed. Though Iceland has officially decided to apply for EU membership this does not mean that it will join, even if invited to do so.

Whether they choose to light up their first cigarette on their own or are unwitting victims of passive smoking, young people are increasingly at risk from tobacco exposure.

Not long ago an editorial like the one that appeared in the independent Al- Dustour newspaper this week might never have made it into print.