With the eyes of the international community being focused on the war-torn northeast region of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), a human tragedy is unfolding in the south of the country, where thousands of children face death by starvation.

United Nations attack helicopters have fired rockets at Congolese rebels, killing seven of them. Rwandan rebels in the northwestern part of Congo tried to take over a military camp, after which the Congolese army requested assistance.

Despite readily available vaccines, death rate of sickle-cell anemia in African children remains to be a growing concern, researchers said Thursday.

Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s seven-country tour of Africa included stops in Nigeria and Angola, the continent’s top two oil producers and the Congo. Naturally the issue of US corporate interests in Africa’s natural resources come to mind.

Secretary of State Hillary Clinton emphasized that her seven-country tour of Africa was intended to promote unity and democracy, fight corruption, and boost US investments in African trade and agriculture.

Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's ill-tempered outburst to a question from a student in the audience leads to a scramble from aides to explain her embarrassing behavior.

In a very risky experiment in conducted in Radboud University in Nijmegen, the Netherlands. Scientist opted to used mosquitoes as "artificial injections," delivering live malaria parasites through their bites.

When I visited the World Refugee Day celebration that was held in Minneapolis on June 20, one of the people I met was Therese Gales, the Public Affairs Manager with the American Refugee Committee (ARC).

In the newest HIV/AIDS study conducted by various researchers from Oxford University, the Population Council of Ghana and the Kenya Medical Research, they found how men who have sex with men have no safe access to relevant HIV/AIDS information.

In surveys of the most desirable place to live on earth, Costa Rica scores high. People are also happy living there more than in the United States. What makes Costa Rica desirable and what can other places learn about this country’s desirability?