African Gays Under Attack as HIV/AIDS Epidemic Turns 30 Thirty years into the HIV/AIDS epidemic, stigma and discrimination continue to slow efforts to prevent and treat the disease. And more and more, gay men are becoming the targets in sub-Saharan A...
Microbe Could Help Battle Malaria Researchers have discovered a bacterium in the gut of the Anopheles mosquito which may someday be used to destroy and, therefore, prevent the spread of the disease-causing parasite. The World Health Organization esti...
SIV Vaccine Holds Promise for AIDS Researchers are excited about a vaccine they have developed that protects rhesus monkeys from infection with a primate version of the AIDS virus. They hope to use what they've learned to develop an agent that preven...
American Cowboys Bring Beef Cows to Russia After the collapse of the Soviet Union, Russians ate most of their beef cows as the system of reproduction broke down. Now American ranchers are working to rebuild Russia's herd. Darrell Stevenson, an Americ...
Senegal Quranic School Puts Children First Quranic schools in Senegal gained much unwanted attention last year with a damning report by Human Rights Watch that said many schools were enslaving their students to beg for money. One Quranic school that...
Clinton Pledges Early Action On Free Trade Agreements Secretary of State Hillary Clinton says the Obama administration will soon send the U.S. Congress implementing legislation for free-trade agreements with Panama, Colombia and South Korea. Action o...
Mega-Fires Pose Threat to Environment, Economy Experts gathered this week in Sun City, South Africa, to discuss wildfires. But a new report also focused on a growing phenomenon called mega-fires. The report describes mega-fires as extraordinary confl...
Egyptian Islamist Calls for Tolerance of Coptic Christians Violence between Egypt's Coptic Christians and conservative Muslims has led to calls for tolerance from some unlikely sources. The allegiance of the men gathered outside a mosque in central A...
Indian Court Rejects Harsher Sentences for Bhopal Disaster India's top court has turned down a plea to reopen a case aimed at getting a stronger punishment for those found guilty for the 1984 gas leak in Bhopal, which killed thousands of people. The...
Senegalese Villages Turn to Solar Power In Senegal, growing electricity shortages are forcing more and more people to turn to one of the country's greatest renewable resources, solar energy. There are no power lines running through the village of Lan...
UN Security Council Urges Somalis to Resolve Political Crisis The U.N. Security Council expressed its grave concern Wednesday at the continued instability in Somalia, which it says has led to a multitude of problems, including terrorism, piracy and a...
Fish, Hunt, Win in Missouri Many American states tout themselves as fishing and hunting paradises, and with good reason. There's a lot of great outdoors across our vast nation. And although you may not think of fields and woods and streams as tourism...
More Democracy Means More Economic Aid for Guinea The road to democracy has been bumpy for Guinea, but the European Union is supporting new development projects. The reinstated funding comes after the country's first free and fair elections, and a ne...
American Youth Prep for Summer Camp Summertime is almost upon us in America, and even though millions of children will be home from school, they won't necessarily be under their parents' feet the whole time. A lot of them will be off to summer camp f...
Emergency Birth Training Curbs Infant Mortality Responding immediately when newborns fail to breathe in the critical moments after birth could dramatically cut the number of infant deaths worldwide. That's the focus of a new training program for mate...
