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Turning pickup trucks into ambulances and doors into stretchers, Haitians were frantically struggling to save those injured in this week’s...

Text of president Barack Obama speaking about Haiti on Wednesday, as provided by the White House: Good morning, everybody. This...

Haitians piled bodies along the devastated streets of their capital Wednesday after the strongest earthquake to hit the poor Caribbean...

The crescent moon of the railway track divides the slum, a metal slash in the tumble of rusted tin roofs,...

Western countries are rushing to upgrade airport security to meet new threats, but African countries don’t have the money to...

South Africa gained its third first lady Monday when President Jacob Zuma married Tobeka Madiba, his fifth marriage and third...

The U.N. food agency on Tuesday suspended the distribution of desperately needed aid in southern Somalia because of attacks on...

A 23-year-old Nigerian man was charged in a federal criminal complaint today with attempting to destroy a Northwest Airlines aircraft...

South African poet and former political prisoner Dennis Brutus, who fought apartheid in words and deeds and remained an activist...