Nelson Mandela and Graca Machel have been crowned the "Decade Child Rights Heroes" in a vote cast by children from all over the world.
Red Army tank commander Sgt. Mikhail Kalashnikov invented his first machine gun in 1942, during the Second World War, as he sat in a hospital bed recovering from a wound that he got in western Russia.
A $5 million prize to reward good leadership in Africa was dramatically awarded Monday to ... nobody.
The flight from Atlanta, Georgia, to Johannesburg was as easy a 15-hour flight as I've ever had.
CNN interviewed Emily Eavis three weeks before the Glastonbury festival opened its doors to the public. Here she tells CNN what she gets up to in the run up to the event. She also explains her late mother's influence on proceedings and how charities benefit from the Glastonbury festival.
Talks among regional African leaders failed Monday to resolve a long-standing power-sharing dispute between embattled Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe and opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai.
They came from around the world, braving bitterly cold temperatures, security perimeters and large crowds in the streets of the nation's capital to see one man make American history.
The number of cholera deaths in Zimbabwe has passed 1,000, the United Nations said Wednesday.
A sweeping new report by the World Health Organization challenges governments to improve world health through smart social policy
Police in Zimbabwe arrested more opposition lawmakers Wednesday as President Robert Mugabe announced he would include opposition members in his new Cabinet.
Nelson Mandela and Graca Machel have been crowned the "Decade Child Rights Heroes" in a vote cast by children from all over the world.
Red Army tank commander Sgt. Mikhail Kalashnikov invented his first machine gun in 1942, during the Second World War, as he sat in a hospital bed recovering from a wound that he got in western Russia.
A $5 million prize to reward good leadership in Africa was dramatically awarded Monday to ... nobody.
The flight from Atlanta, Georgia, to Johannesburg was as easy a 15-hour flight as I've ever had.
CNN interviewed Emily Eavis three weeks before the Glastonbury festival opened its doors to the public. Here she tells CNN what she gets up to in the run up to the event. She also explains her late mother's influence on proceedings and how charities benefit from the Glastonbury festival.
Talks among regional African leaders failed Monday to resolve a long-standing power-sharing dispute between embattled Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe and opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai.
They came from around the world, braving bitterly cold temperatures, security perimeters and large crowds in the streets of the nation's capital to see one man make American history.
The number of cholera deaths in Zimbabwe has passed 1,000, the United Nations said Wednesday.
A sweeping new report by the World Health Organization challenges governments to improve world health through smart social policy
Police in Zimbabwe arrested more opposition lawmakers Wednesday as President Robert Mugabe announced he would include opposition members in his new Cabinet.
Two teenage girls used DNA bar coding to determine that some sushi on New York dinner plates was mislabeled with cheaper fish being passed off as a more expensive species.
A U.N. agency rolled out a $214 million program Tuesday to help 16 needy places hit hard by high prices for food and oil, amid a crisis already making it hard for aid groups to provide enough food for the world's hungry
The rock trio will set out on tour in September – for a good cause
Organizers expect hundreds of thousands of people to converge on central Pretoria Tuesday as a part of the country's so-called Million Man March against crime.
A wave of violence against immigrants that left 56 people dead and forced 30,000 from their homes has subsided, South Africa's safety and security minister said Monday
South Africans protesting the violence against foreigners marched in the streets of Johannesburg on Saturday, carrying signs saying, "Stop the Senseless Killing," "Mr. Mbeke, Where are You?" and "Shame on Us."
The atmosphere was tense in Cape Town on Friday after xenophobic violence that has left more than 40 dead in Johannesburg spread to South Africa's largest city.
They fled poverty and violence. But now even the plight of their home country seems preferable to the anti-immigrant mobs
Angola's government has denied permission for a Chinese ship to unload weapons destined for Zimbabwe at its port, the latest country to do so, the nation's state-run ANGOP news agency reported.
A Chinese ship that was blocked from unloading its cargo in South Africa may return to China because of difficulties at African ports, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Jiang Yu said Tuesday.
Zimbabwe officials on Saturday began recounting ballots from the country's disputed election in a move that could overturn a claimed victory by opponents to President Robert Mugabe.
Unrest over food prices in countries like Haiti is proving again the role of hunger in fomenting revolution
Twenty-seven year old Thobile is raising five children on her own. The youngest is five months, the oldest eleven.
Sporadic gunfire and explosions were heard Tuesday on the Indian Ocean island of Anjouan after soldiers arrived to oust a renegade commander.
One of history's deadliest diseases has been making a comeback. Scientists want to know why
It's not easy to keep a group of 60 elementary school children seated, but when students from Canada and Burkina Faso gathered in a virtual classroom, they all sat, eyes eagerly glued to the computer screen as they listened to stories about the lives of their new peers.
The number of people around the world living with the virus that causes AIDS is actually nearly seven million fewer than previous estimates, according to the United Nations.
Jones built his first fortune in the early 1990s. A graduate of Indiana University, he was working as a research scientist at MIT's artificial intelligence lab when he met Greg Carr, a Harvard grad student. Carr believed that the 1984 breakup of Ma Bell would present some sort of opportunity, and the two 26-year-olds would just have to figure out what it might be. At a telecom conference in Atlanta, Jones saw the current state-of-the-art voicemail hardware: million-dollar refrigerator-sized machines invented in the early '80s. "I was coming out of MIT's AI lab, where everything was progressive, young, vibrant, energetic," says Jones with characteristic chutzpah. "These guys were toast."
Josh Macabuag is in Jozini, South Africa, where he will be working with the charity Engineers Without Borders (EWB).
Joshua Macabuag is a 23 year-old recent graduate of the University of Oxford's Pembroke College.
World Bank President Paul Wolfowitz Tuesday called Africa a "continent of opportunities" and said he would make it his priority in the coming years.
The janitors at a rural secondary school in the eastern South African town of Jeppe's Reef are letting their curiosity get the best of them.
Joana crawled toward me on her skeletal elbows and knees, each movement a painful reminder of the fact that she was dying.
Mariza has become one of Portugal's most successful international stars through her best-selling interpretations of fado, her country's most traditional musical form known as the "Portuguese blues."
I am from Harare, Zimbabwe. I saw an article in the newspaper about MineTech getting a contract to work in Mozambique. I applied and passed the selection course, and was trained in Harare. That was...
Walking into the highly restricted tuberculosis ward of the Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Malawi's second city of Blantyre is a lesson in humility.
Posted: 7:15 p.m. ET CNN's Sean Callebs in Houston, Texas
African health ministers have declared a tuberculosis emergency to muster greater political commitment to stop one of the continent's top killers, the United Nations' World Health Organization (WHO) said Friday.
Each morning before dawn, a secret print shop at the CIA's Langley, Virginia, compound produces a handful of copies of the nation's most closely guarded document, the President's daily brief.
Airdate: March 19th, 2005
The World Health Organization is investigating an outbreak of hemorrhagic fever in northwestern Angola, it said Friday.
Dave and Annie Hall have priorities: They want to build up their retirement accounts and other investments, live comfortably, and become millionaires over the next 15 years.
The three countries that are farthest behind the goal of getting AIDS drugs to those who need them are South Africa, India, and Nigeria, an official of the World Health Organization has said.
My name is Teresa Heinz Kerry.
President Bush praised the first group of countries selected to apply for aid Monday from the Millennium Challenge Account, a new aid fund that was launched in February.
Landmine detection may be easier in future, if trials of genetically-engineered plants by the University of Copenhagen prove successful.
Ludfine Anyango, a 34-year old woman from Kenya, was diagnosed HIV-positive eight years ago. She was married at the time. Her husband died from the disease. It was then she suspected that she too might be infected. She was.
Under American law, you are ineligible for public assistance if you have as little as $1,000 in financial assets. Although occasionally denounced as excessively hard-nosed, the requirement is all t...
We must weigh in again on South Africa, especially with respect to two large questions that keep getting answered wrong in the New York Times and Washington Post. Question No. 1 is whether sanction...
Historians will record, or better yet forget, that every one of the following happenings happened in 1986, during the tenure of an administration said to be quite conservative: The Attorney General...
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