Epidemiologist Joel Selanikio has used the explosion in mobile phone technology and the World Wide Web to deliver more effective public health services throughout the developing world. Dr. Selanikio and his organization DataDyne.org are making a diff...
Next month, Vancouver and Whistler, Canada will host athletes from more than 80 nations at the 2010 Winter Olympics. Some of the countries sending athletes might surprise you. Not only will the Jamaican bobsledders be back, but so will skiers from co...
U.S. President Barack Obama says he will not stop fighting to create jobs, reform health care or clean up the financial industry. The president took his populist appeal to the recession-battered central state of Ohio Friday. President Obama's energet...
The commander of U.S. forces in the Middle East, General David Petraeus, says there are indications the domestic conflict in Yemen could become a proxy war between Iran and Saudi Arabia. Petraeus spoke in Washington Friday at the Institute for the St...
Soon after the earthquake struck, and the search for the living had begun in Haiti, there were bodies, thousands and thousands of dead bodies. Then the burials began, not ordinary burials with traditional rituals and grief, but burials in mass graves...
Representatives of major donor countries will gather in Montreal on January 25 to discuss reconstruction efforts in Haiti, following the massive earthquake that struck the Caribbean nation January 12. Many Haitians have been given a new lease on life...
Haiti's government and aid groups are struggling to respond to the housing needs of tens of thousands of people affected by last week's earthquake. Some people are trying to leave the damaged city behind. Buses stream out of the Haitian capital, pack...
A spokesman for the Somali Islamist militant group al-Shabab on Friday denied issuing a new threat against Kenya, saying that a recording posted online is a fake. Tensions in Kenya has increased. Kenya is reported to have detained as many as 2000 peo...
Britain's Prime Minister Gordon Brown will give evidence to the country's Iraq Inquiry before general elections expected later in the year. The announcement came Friday following mounting pressure from opposition politicians. The chairman of the Iraq...
Terrorism tied to Islamic fundamentalism seems to be on the rise in many parts of world -- from Yemen and Pakistan to southern Thailand and the Philippine island of Mindanao. But, in Indonesia -- a country that security experts worried might become a...
At least three lawmakers have been assassinated in Somalia's semi-autonomous region of Puntland in recent months, increasing fears that radical Islamist insurgents in the south may be expanding their effort to weaken the government in Puntland. One r...
When it comes to North Korea, the world has come up with a lot of labels, including the last bastion of Stalinist Communism. But the author of a new book says North Korea can best be understood through the lens of its racial views. VOA Seoul correspo...
Guinea Interim PM Says He is Not Bound by Transitional Government Deal The deal states that all members of the 101-member transitional government and the existing ruling military council are barred from running in elections planned for June. Scott St...
President Obama Praised for Sticking to American Values on Counter-Terrorism India has puts its airports on high alert following intelligence warnings of a possible hijacking attempt by Islamic militants. The security alert comes days before India ce...
The United Nations says the world economy is on the mend. In its annual economic report released Wednesday (January 20), the U.N. predicts a global growth rate of 2.4 percent in 2010 with East and South Asia taking the lead. But the organization warn...
