Heavy rains and flooding have killed at least 23 people in Tanzania and displaced more than 4,000 others, state-run media reported.
Forty-year-old Bayanmunkh has learnt the hard way about overgrazing. Riding slowly behind his herd of close to 2,000 animals across Mongolia's arid plains, the herder reminisces about how the land has changed.
For 38-year-old Bayanzul it was just one winter too far. After losing a third of his herd in the -45 degree temperatures that struck Mongolia last winter, the long-time herder has decided to give up on the nomadic life and try his luck in the city.
Yasuní is both a place and a metaphor.
Earth's Frontiers travels deep into the Yasuni Biosphere Reserve in the equatorial western Amazon to research endangered species.
Three women who worked for the Iraqi government were killed a bus accident in Jordan on Thursday, an official with Iraq's Ministry of Science and Technology announced Saturday.
A Swedish tourist tells CNN's Dan Rivers his incredible tale of survival as a tsunami struck Thailand five years ago.
Visitors shuttle in and out of a state-of-the-art hospital in an Indonesian town once devastated by towering tsunami waves five years ago, while in nearby Thailand backpackers dance to music in bars and tourists lodge in a hotel that had been demolished in the Boxing Day disaster.
Impact Your World highlights efforts to help survivors of the tsunami. Dan Rivers reports.
Yudi Rinaldi had his four-year-old son, Ryan, join him in a scene that simulated the real destruction he had narrowly escaped in Aceh, Indonesia.
Nigerian rebels call for a cease-fire after the government releases one of its leaders. CNN's Christian Purefoy reports.
Nigerian militants threatened to end their cease-fire not long after it began Wednesday because they claimed the government was threatening one of their camps.
A Nigerian militant group claimed Wednesday it sabotaged oil pipelines in the country's oil-rich southern Niger Delta, but the country's military denies the assertion.
Nigerian militants said Monday they had blown up an oil pipeline and captured six crew members of a chemical tanker.
Nigeria's state oil company rejected criticism from a leading human rights group Wednesday, calling an Amnesty International report "inaccurate."
Two U.N. agencies said Wednesday they are concerned that Iraq will not be able to meet its obligations under the global treaty to ban landmines.
A string of suicide bombings targeting government buildings and a United Nations compound in Somalia left at least 25 people dead Wednesday in attacks a U.S. official said bore hallmarks of the al Qaeda terror network.
Gunmen in Somalia have shot dead an agent for a World Food Program transport company, the U.N. agency said Tuesday.
A Web posting purportedly from al Qaeda has claimed responsibility for Monday's blast outside the Danish embassy in Pakistan, which killed at least six people.
Islamabad blast
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A bomb at the Danish Embassy in Islamabad, Pakistan, killed three people and injured seven.
Al Qaeda or one of its affiliates was probably behind an explosion outside the Danish embassy in Pakistan, Denmark's intelligence service said Tuesday.
It is said that nowhere else on earth will the impacts of climate change be felt more acutely than in the developing world.
International leaders Tuesday rushed to condemn deadly twin bombings in the Algerian capital, which appeared to target government and United Nations buildings. Here is some of the reaction.
Since forming an alliance with Osama bin Laden, Algeria's Islamist rebels have grown more sophisticated -- and lethal
Helping the world's poor adapt to more floods, droughts and other changes from a warming planet will cost the richest nations at least $86 billion a year by 2015, a panel warned
Newey is the head of Thailand's Youth Venture program, located in Bangkok.
At the only hospital in the capital of this tiny West African nation, a 3-year-old AIDS patient named Suleiman receives his daily dose of medication -- a murky brown concoction of seven herbs and spices served out of a bottle that once contained pancake syrup.
GREENHOUSE GASES The average American's use of transportation and electricity releases 10 tons of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere each year. The goods and services she consumes are responsible f...
The following are links to aid group Web sites who are assisting civilians in the Mideast crisis (some sites may respond slowly due to increased traffic):
In the wake of the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq in 2003, the country still struggles with high unemployment, inconsistent utility services and widespread poverty, a joint survey from the Iraqi government and United Nations indicates.
A new report warns more must be done to help Afghanistan emerge from poverty or it risks slipping back into chaos.
Voting has begun in Indonesia in an election seen as a crucial test of President Megawati Sukarnoputri's bid to continue leading the world's largest Muslim nation for the next five years.
United Nations health experts have issued stern warnings about bird flu as the human death toll in Asia rises to 18.
Washington has shipped $1 trillion of foreign aid (in current dollars) to needy nations around the world since World War II. Next year, Congress proposes to spend another $16 billion. No one seems ...
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