December 23, 2011  |   Former President Clinton and Moroccan education advocate Mhammed Abbad Andaloussi at the Clinton Global initiative. Photo courtesy Mhammed Abbad Andaloussi. Mhammed Abbad Andaloussi is one of those people with a knack for getting what he wants, at times without even...

December 21, 2011  |   On Wednesday's NewsHour, the global health unit reports on how Morocco is training imams to educate people in their communities about the HIV virus. One such imam, Mohamed Ziani, speaks about HIV prevention during prayer at his mosque and...

December 20, 2011  |   The NewsHour's Morocco series starts Wednesday with a report on government reforms brought on by the Arab Spring unrest. Learn more about this fascinating country, its culture and challenges in the slide show above. You can also read a...

December 16, 2011  |   When a series of revolts known as the Arab Spring swept through northern Africa this year, taking down government after government, Morocco was not immune to the unrest. Protesters filled the streets for weeks in February and March demanding...

December 9, 2011  |   A 3D plot shows the nighttime brightness of areas of Niger over the course of a year. Image courtesy Science/AAAS. The intensity of light shining from cities at night could help identify hot spots where outbreaks of infectious disease...

November 30, 2011  |   HIV testing. Photo by UNICEF. It's been a difficult year for the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria, the largest funding mechanism for programs providing prevention and treatment for the diseases around the world. Several big donors...

November 28, 2011  |   Photo by Adek Berry/AFP/Getty Images. A clinical trial testing a microbicide gel once hailed as a highly promising new approach to HIV prevention is being shut down early because of poor results. The National Institutes of Health announced Friday...

November 25, 2011  |   Each week the NewsHour's global health unit highlights what's new in the Twitterverse from the world of health and development. Follow us on Twitter at NewsHourGlobal. View the story "Twitter Round Up" on Storify]...

November 22, 2011  |   Isabella and her twin sister Ha were reunited this year. When the NewsHour's global health team first met 13-year-old Isabella Solimene, she shared a memorable story of being separated from her twin sister as a baby in Vietnam....

November 18, 2011  |   Each week the NewsHour's global health unit highlights what's new in the Twitterverse from the world of health and development. Follow us on Twitter at NewsHourGlobal. View the story "Twitter Round Up" on Storify]...

November 17, 2011  |   Somali boys fetch water from a puddle in the sprawling Dadaab refugee complex in Kenya. Photo by Tony Karumba/AFP/Getty Images. The heavy rains soaking the Dadaab refugee camp in Kenya -- the largest in the world -- would normally...

November 15, 2011  |   MANAGUA, Nicaragua - Marling del Socorro Valverdi balances a restless baby on her hip as she tries to attach yards of red and green crepe paper to a drab newsprint pinata shell. In the Valverdi family, pinata sales equal...

November 11, 2011  |   Eight-month-old Kesler is one of those infectiously happy babies who giggles at everything, even when his mother is scolding him for being too loud. Kesler lives with his mother, Delma Marina Sala, in a one-room, tin-roofed home outside of...

November 10, 2011  |   The number one killer of young children around the world isn't malaria, measles or HIV. It's pneumonia, and each year more children die from the lung infection than from those three, much higher-profile diseases combined. A global push to bring...

November 4, 2011  |   Each week the NewsHour's global health unit highlights what's new in the Twitterverse from the world of health and development. Follow us on Twitter at NewsHourGlobal. View the story "Twitter Round Up" on Storify]...

November 2, 2011  |   An auto-disable syringe is used to vaccinate a child in Kenya. Photo by UNICEF/Siegfried Modola. A nurse injects a patient with a syringe of antibiotics, reloads and moves on to the next patient in line. The syringe isn't sterilized, the...

October 31, 2011  |   Wormwood plants growing in China. Photo by Flickr user Novartis AG. A synthetic biology breakthrough, achieved at laboratories in northern California, could expand access to malaria treatment around the globe beginning in 2012. Scientists at the University of California, Berkeley,...

October 28, 2011  |   Each week the NewsHour's global health unit highlights what's new in the Twitterverse from the world of health and development. Follow us on Twitter at NewsHourGlobal. View the story "Twitter Round Up" on Storify]...

October 27, 2011  |   The NewsHour's global health unit is in Nicaragua this week reporting on the upcoming presidential election and efforts to provide a new life-saving vaccine to infants. Both of these stories are playing out against a back drop of intense poverty...

October 25, 2011  |   Mauricio Aguilar began using cocaine when he was 17 years old. The NewsHour's global health unit is in Nicaragua this week, reporting on upcoming elections and global health issues. Look for our broadcast reports and more online content in...

October 24, 2011  |   Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega leads in polls ahead of the Nov. 6 election. Photo by AFP. The NewsHour's global health unit is in Nicaragua this week, reporting on upcoming elections and the push to prevent deadly childhood diseases. Look...

October 18, 2011  |   Child with severe malaria in Tanzania. Photo by Talea Miller/NewsHour. For the first time, Phase III results of an experimental malaria vaccine showed significant protection against the deadly disease, raising hopes that a vaccine could be in use as...

October 17, 2011  |   Tens of thousands of Somalis have starved to death this year from drought and famine conditions, says the United Nations, bringing a new level of urgency to World Food Day activities held over the weekend. The World Food Program is...

October 13, 2011  |   Cooking roti in India. Photo by Flickr user Michael Foley. A woman rises at dawn to prepare food for her family, building a small fire inside the house and frying bread on a makeshift stove above it. Some variation of...

October 12, 2011  |   Food assistance headed to Libya. Photo by USAID. As annual budget decisions loom on Capitol Hill, international development advocates are pushing back against more proposed cuts to foreign aid. Aid programs took a hit earlier this year-- $8 billion was...

October 11, 2011  |   Tuberculosis patient in India. Photo by WHO/David Rochkind. For the first time on record, the number of people suffering from tuberculosis around the world is dropping, but a drug-resistant strain of the disease continues to spread at an alarming rate....

October 7, 2011  |   Each week the NewsHour's global health unit highlights what's new in the Twitterverse for our readers. Check out our Tweet picks from the world of global health this week, and be sure to send us your suggestions! Follow our global...

October 4, 2011  |   A study showing injected hormonal birth control could make women more vulnerable to HIV is raising big questions about medical guidance in regions with high HIV rates. Research conducted by the University of Washington in seven African countries found...

October 3, 2011  |   Somalia's capital, Mogadishu, is considered one of the most dangerous, lawless cities in the world. AK-47s and rocket-propelled grenades are sold openly at weapons markets, insurgent and government forces fight each other regularly in the streets. Years of civil...

September 30, 2011  |   Each week the NewsHour's global health unit highlights what's new in the Twitterverse for our readers. Check out our Tweet picks from the world of global health this week, and be sure to send us your suggestions! Follow our global...

September 29, 2011  |   A wounded protestor in Bahrain is taken to the hospital in February. Photo by Joseph Eid/AFP/Getty Images. Twenty doctors and nurses jailed during the spring revolt against Bahrain's ruling monarchy received sentences of up to 15 years in prison...

September 28, 2011  |   Mexico's government insurance program covers all services for young children. Photo by Mexico Ministry of Health. As the United States continues to debate the legality of President Obama's healthcare law, south of the border Mexico is preparing to celebrate...

September 27, 2011  |   A child receives a rotavirus vaccine. Photo by GAVI. An international alliance of private donors and governments has approved $1 billion for more than 30 developing countries to buy vaccines to protect against deadly childhood diseases. The money distributed by...

September 26, 2011  |   HIV clinic in Mozambique. Photo by Talea Miller. Every time an HIV clinic tells a patient to come back for more testing or for laboratory results there is a risk the patient will never return. This happens so frequently...

September 23, 2011  |   Scene from the movie "Contagion." Photo from Warner Bros. Ent. The box-office hit "Contagion," a movie about a lethal airborne virus that kills within days, is still a top dramatic draw going into the weekend. The film has drawn interest...

September 20, 2011  |   Emerging powers like Brazil, Russia, China and India will face mounting health threats diabetes and other diseases. Photo by Flickr user ML_Duong NEW YORK | They are the new generation of economic powers, the nations whose economic growth put...

September 20, 2011  |   The food and beverage industry held a meeting on the sidelines of a health conference at the U.N. Photo by Flickr user mhaithaca. NEW YORK | Food and beverage companies that make fatty, sugary products tend to not be viewed...

September 19, 2011  |   Testing blood pressure. Photo by Chris Hondros/Getty Images. The escalating epidemic of non-communicable diseases could could cost the world $47 trillion over the next two decades, according to a report published Monday as United Nations representatives open a two-day, high-level...

September 16, 2011  |   Photo by Flickr user Pete. Updated 6:00 pm. ET Before the United Nations launches into debate on the Palestinian territories and other contentious international political issues next week, it will take two days to discuss a growing health crisis...

September 16, 2011  |   Each week the NewsHour's global health unit highlights what's new in the Twitterverse for our readers. Check out our Tweet picks from the world of global health this week, and be sure to send us your suggestions! Follow our global...

September 15, 2011  |   Malaria is transmitted to humans through mosquitoes. Photo by the World Health Organization. The malaria parasite is one of the most widely studied disease-causing organisms, yet there is still no effective vaccine available to prevent the deadly illness. Two...

September 13, 2011  |   Former President George W. Bush. U.S. government photo. Whenever George W. Bush's presidential legacy is discussed, the ground-breaking global HIV initiative he created is mentioned as a high point. It made the United States a major force in the...

September 12, 2011  |   Women in Bangladesh. Photo by Flickr user Michael Foley. More than 350,000 women die each year around the globe from complications of childbirth, and 3 million children die in the first month of life. In the face of such...

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September 7, 2011  |   A doctor measures the blood sugar level of a patient with diabetes. Photo by Carsten Koall/Getty Images For only the second time in history, the U.N. general assembly will hold a high-level meeting on a health issue later this month....

September 2, 2011  |   Each week the NewsHour's global health unit highlights what's new in the Twitterverse from the world of health and development. Follow us on Twitter at NewsHourGlobal. View "Twitter Round Up" on Storify...

September 1, 2011  |   iPods charging. Photo by Flickr user Stephen Hackett. Cancer screening...is there an app for that? Not quite, but a newly developed device run by an iPod Touch, iPad or Android tablet could help diagnose cancers in poor or rural...

August 31, 2011  |   The number of global newborn deaths each year fell by 1.3 million over the last two decades, but the first month of life is still one of the most dangerous times for infants and children. Newborn deaths dropped from...

August 30, 2011  |   Photo by Flickr user Patrik Ragnarsson. The Aokigahara Forest is a vast, tranquil and densely wooded area at the base of Mt. Fuji known as the "sea of trees." But in the last two decades the woods have earned...

August 26, 2011  |   Each week the NewsHour's global health unit highlights what's new in the Twitterverse from the world of health and development. Follow us on Twitter at NewsHourGlobal. View "Weekly Twitter Round Up" on Storify...

August 25, 2011  |   There are an estimated 502 million obese adults worldwide. Photo by Flickr user Malingering. The world is getting fatter, and packing on the pounds is not just for wealthy nations anymore. Obesity is sweeping into low and middle-income countries,...

August 23, 2011  |   Photo by Flickr user Sharyn Morrow. Peek inside any American family's medicine cabinet and you're likely to find a drug that was tested in a foreign country. Pharmaceutical companies have been shifting research overseas for years and the number...

August 19, 2011  |   Each week the NewsHour's global health unit highlights what's new in the Twitterverse from the world of health and development. Follow us on Twitter at NewsHourGlobal. View "Weekly Twitter Round Up" on Storify...

August 18, 2011  |   Doctors treat a baby in Misrata, Libya. Photo by Chris Hondros/Getty Images. The World Health Organization is rushing to secure medical supplies for Libya now that millions in Gadhafi's government assets can be used for urgent health needs. The...

August 17, 2011  |   HIV testing in Haiti. Photo by UNICEF. There's been a slowdown in HIV/AIDS donations from rich countries to developing nations, according to a new report from the Kaiser Family Foundation and UNAIDS. An analysis released this week found that...

August 15, 2011  |   A malnourished refugee child in Dadaab, Kenya. Photo by Oli Scarff/Getty Images. Scenes of emaciated children and weary families crowded into refugee camps have been playing on televisions around the world for weeks now. But the famine hitting the...

August 12, 2011  |   Each week the NewsHour's global health unit highlights what's new in the Twitterverse from the world of health and development. Follow us on Twitter at NewsHourGlobal. View "Weekly Twitter Round Up" on Storify...

August 8, 2011  |   Photo by Flickr user Allan Foster. Most of the earth is covered by water, yet more than a third of the global population experiences periodic shortages of the kind used for drinking and agriculture. So why not convert seawater...

August 5, 2011  |   Each week the NewsHour's global health unit highlights what's new in the Twitterverse from the world of health and development. Follow us on Twitter at NewsHourGlobal. View "Weekly Twitter Round Up" on Storify...

August 3, 2011  |   Cholera patient in Haiti. Photo by American Red Cross. A tropical storm bearing down on Haiti threatens to make daily life more miserable for tens of thousands homeless still living in tent camps and could deepen the cholera epidemic...

August 1, 2011  |   Prenant woman in Mozambique. Photo by Talea Miller. Every two minutes, somewhere around the world a woman dies in childbirth. Often, a lack of access to care, technology or medications causes these fatal complications. In an effort to reduce...

July 29, 2011  |   Each week the NewsHour's global health unit highlights what's new in the Twitterverse from the world of health and development. [View the story "Weekly Twitter Round Up" on Storify]...

July 29, 2011  |   A woman prays by the Ravi river in August 2010, after the worst flooding in 80 years. Photo by Arif Ali/AFP/Getty Images. This week marks one year since historic flooding submerged a fifth of Pakistan and displaced more than...

July 27, 2011  |   More than 2 billion people around the world are infected with hepatitis, a staggering figure that equals nearly one-third of the globe's population. Injection drug users are particularly vulnerable to the disease and new data out in the Lancet Wednesday...

July 25, 2011  |   Updated on August 15, 2011. More than 11 million people are in need of aid in drought-stricken East Africa, and more than 800,000 children could die from starvation, the U.N. says. View a slide show of the harrowing conditions Somalis...

July 22, 2011  |   Each week the NewsHour's global health unit highlights what's new in the Twitterverse from the world of health and development. Be sure to send us your suggestions, and you can nominate organizations for our weekly "one way to help" feature!...

July 20, 2011  |   Condoms or a vasectomy? Those are the choices for sexually active men who want to control their own fertility -- at least for now. These two options are currently the only available contraceptive methods for men, and both have...

July 15, 2011  |   Each week the NewsHour's global health unit highlights what's new in the Twitterverse from the world of health and development. Be sure to send us your suggestions, and you can nominate organizations for our weekly "one way to help" feature!...

July 14, 2011  |   Updated with all the series reports on July 19. While Indonesia boasts the world's fourth-largest population, the biggest Muslim population, 6,000 islands and a top 20 economy, many Americans know very little of the Southeast Asian nation -- save that...

July 13, 2011  |   Patients wait at an HIV clinic in Mozambique. HIV-negative men and women who took a daily pill usually used to treat the disease reduced their risk of becoming infected with HIV by more than 60 percent, two new studies...

July 11, 2011  |   More than 10 million people are desperately in need of food assistance in Ethiopia, Somalia and Kenya, the World Food Program estimated this week, as the worst drought in 60 years continues to ravage eastern Africa. The situation in...

July 8, 2011  |   Each week the NewsHour's global health unit highlights what's new in the Twitterverse for our readers. Check out our Tweet picks from the world of global health this week, and be sure to send us your suggestions! Follow our global...

July 7, 2011  |   Infant surrounded by mosquito nets. Photo by World Bank. A drug commonly used to combat heart worms in pets in the United States is becoming a versatile parasite-fighting treatment in regions stricken by tropical disease. Ivermectin, developed decades ago...

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June 22, 2011  |   The O104:H4 E. coli strain. /Getty Images) The rare strain of E. coli that has killed 39 people and sickened thousands in Europe combines the abilities of two known E. coli pathogens...

June 21, 2011  |   More than 80 percent of the world's 15.4 million refugees are hosted in some of the world's poorest countries, according to new 2010 data released this week by the U.N. High Commission on Refugees. Driven from their homes by violence...

May 27, 2011  |   The NewsHour's global health unit is in Rome this week to report on a two-day conference being hosted by the Vatican on the global fight against AIDS. The meeting was prompted in part by confusion over the pope's recent comments...

May 20, 2011  |   Bahrain doctors treat protestors in February. AFP/Getty photo. Doctors Detained in Bahrain Report Abuse More than 100 medical workers have been targeted and detained by Bahrain's government in recent months for their role in aiding protestors, say human rights...

May 19, 2011  |   For the first time, a man completely paralyzed from the chest down regained the ability to take several steps with support and stand on his own thanks to electric stimulation to his spinal cord, new research published in the Lancet...

May 18, 2011  |   A wounded Bahraini demonstrator is taken to a hospital in Manama in February. Photo by Joseph Eid/ AFP Updated May 23 | More than 100 medical workers have been targeted and detained by Bahrain's government in recent months for...

May 16, 2011  |   HIV medication. Photo by AFP/Getty Get HIV-positive patients on antiretroviral treatment. Now. That's the message from the landmark new study from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases showing that early treatment of HIV can help stop spread...

May 13, 2011  |   HIV medications. Photo by AFP/Getty Early Use of HIV Drugs Could Prevent Transmission The key to slowing the spread of the HIV epidemic could lie in the medicines already being used to treat HIV positive patients, researchers at the...

May 11, 2011  |   It has been two months since a catastrophic earthquake rocked Japan, triggering a massive tsunami and critically damaging the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant. In the slide show below, learn more about the toll and costs of the triple-disaster, by...

May 5, 2011  |   Newsstand in Lahore on Tuesday. Photo by Arif Ali/AFP/Getty Images Bin Laden Hideout Raises Pakistan Aid Questions The revelation that Osama bin Laden was living in a Pakistani city not far from Islamabad prior to his death has some...

May 4, 2011  |   U.S. Navy SEAL team. Photo by U.S. Navy. The names of the elite Navy SEALs who took down the world's most-wanted terrorist remain a secret, but the historic mission is drawing plenty of attention to the military's special operations...

May 4, 2011  |   Smoker in Nanjing, China. Photo by Flickr user J. Unrau. When the NewsHour's global health team visited China last year for stories on tobacco, obesity and other health issues, they found a smoker's paradise and an anti-tobacco advocate's nightmare....

May 3, 2011  |   The body of Osama Bin Laden was released from the aircraft carrier USS Carl Vinson, pictured above. Photo by U.S. Navy Osama bin Laden's body now lies somewhere in the North Arabian Sea, a watery grave that some experts...

April 29, 2011  |   A malnourished North Korean boy. Photo by WFP/Gerald Bourke. Emergency Food Aid Operation in North Korea The U.N. World Food Programme will deliver more than $200 million in emergency food aid to North Korea over the next year, the agency...

April 27, 2011  |   In California, African-American women are dying of pregnancy related-causes at rates seen in some developing countries, and at four times the rate of white women and other ethnic groups in the state. A new report from the California Department of...

April 25, 2011  |   Anti-government protesters in Tahrir Square February 10, one day before President Mubarak resigned. Photo by Getty. Egyptians are still positive about the country's future but uncertain of the prospects for free and fair elections, according to a new poll...

April 22, 2011  |   Humanitarian Needs in Libya The Libyan army may be scaling back in the besieged city of Misrata, the Associated Press reported Monday, after a bloody weekend of intense fighting and worsening humanitarian conditions. Hundreds of people have been killed in...

April 20, 2011  |   Child with severe malaria in Tanzania. Photo by Talea Miller. Millions of dollars worth of malaria medication donated through the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria may have been lost to theft, according to internal documents obtained...

April 18, 2011  |   Doctors work on a baby who suffered cuts from shrapnel Photo by Chris Hondros/Getty Images As attacks by Moammar Gadhafi's forces intensify on the rebel-held city of Misrata, the city's port has become a lifeline for supplies coming in...

April 14, 2011  |   Sec. of State Hillary Clinton. Photo by Karen Bleier/AFP/Getty Images. Spending Plan Cuts Foreign Aid, Boosts Child Health The hotly-debated FY2011 spending plan agreed to by the White House and congressional leaders this week includes cuts to the State...

April 12, 2011  |   Cholera patients in Port-au-Prince. Photo by Hector Retamal/AFP/Getty Images. The months-long rainy season is just beginning in Haiti, boosting the number of cases of cholera just as critical sanitation services are in limbo. Cholera is waterborne and often spreads...

April 7, 2011  |   Family washing vegetable in Delhi. Photo by Flickr user Michael Foley. Superbug Found in New Delhi Water A drug-resistant superbug was found in about a quarter of samples taken from tap water and puddles in New Delhi, indicating the...

April 6, 2011  |   Tsunami survivors at an evacuation centre in Yamada, Iwate prefecture. Photo by Owaki Mutsuhiko / Japanese Red Cross Society The situation in Japan's evacuation centers is "dire" for the more than 170,000 people still displaced from their homes by the...

April 1, 2011  |   Radiation Rises at Japan Plant Japanese officials are debating expanding a 12-mile evacuation radius around the damaged Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear plant as radioactivity levels of seawater near the plant rose this week and highly radioactive water was found in pipes...

March 31, 2011  |   Fukushima nuclear power plant. Environmental and nuclear scientists in the U.S. are watching apparent leakage discovered at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear reactor site this week with a concerned eye, for both health effects and impact on the environment. Japanese...

March 24, 2011  |   Health officials are drawing attention to the 22 countries that contribute 80 percent of the global burden of tuberculosis on March 24, designated World TB Day. Tuberculosis is a deadly infectious disease that can be transmitted through the air, making...

March 22, 2011  |   Japanese Red Cross volunteers hand out emergency kits at evacuation centers. Photo by Japanese Red Cross Society. Patrick Fuller, Asia Pacific communications manager for the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies spoke with the NewsHour Tuesday...

March 21, 2011  |   Power losses on March 12 indicated in red. Image courtesy NOAA National Geophysical Data Center. The massive earthquake and tsunami that struck Japan on March 11 decimated villages along the northeastern coast and knocked out power to a vast...

March 18, 2011  |   Checking radiation levels in Koriyama city in Fukushima prefecture. Photo by Ken Shimizu/AFP/Getty Images Nuclear Health Fears in Japan Japan raised the nuclear alert level at the Fukushima Dai-ichi plant to five out of a seven level international scale...

March 18, 2011  |   With three reactors having at least partial meltdowns at the Fukushima Daiichi power plant in Japan, the country raised the alert level from four to five on a seven-point international scale for atomic incidents Friday. The International Atomic Energy Agency...

March 16, 2011  |   In the wake of the massive earthquake and tsunami that struck Japan last week, aid organizations are working to assist survivors and are calling for donations. We've compiled a list of a few of the organizations lending a hand. It's...

March 16, 2011  |   Bitterly cold, snowy weather made relief efforts in northeast Japan extremely difficult Wednesday, said Kirsten Mildren, Asia regional advocacy officer for the U.N. Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs. She spoke with the NewsHour from Tokyo, where a U.N....

March 14, 2011  |   Tens of thousands of rescue workers are descending on Japan's northeast coast following the devastating earthquake and tsunami Friday that killed at least 10,000, according to a recent Associated Press estimate. More than half a million people have been evacuated...

March 10, 2011  |   Calls for belt tightening and budget slashing abound on Capitol Hill as members of Congress debate not one but two contentious spending measures -- government spending for the remainder of financial year 2011 and the president's budget proposal for 2012....

March 7, 2011  |   The first installment of the NewsHour's two-part series on Guatemala airs tonight. Learn more about the country and the daily experiences of Guatemalans striving to making ends meet in a country hard hit by poverty and violence below. For...

March 4, 2011  |   The NewsHour will begin airing a two-part series on Monday, March 7, on the high levels of brutal violence against women in Guatemala and efforts to educate communities about family planning and maternal health. Watch a preview from Ray Suarez...

March 4, 2011  |   A man reaches for bread while waiting to cross from Libya into Tunisia. Photo by Spencer Platt/Getty Images Humanitarian Crisis at Libya-Tunisia Border People desperate to leave Libya and the violent clashes between rebel groups and Moammar Gadhafi's forces...

March 1, 2011  |   Stranded Egyptians who have fled Libya protest because of insufficient food, water and shelter, in a camp on March 1, 2010 in Ras Jdir, close to the border between Tunisia and Egypt. Tens of thousands of...

February 25, 2011  |   Libyan protesters flash the 'V for victory' sign in the eastern city of Tobruk on Feb. 24, 2011. Photo by Patrick Bazi/AFP/Getty Images. This dispatch from Tripoli comes from a Libyan man who goes by the name Niz. We...

February 25, 2011  |   Malaria patient in Cambodia. Photo by Talea Miller. Fungus Could Fight Malaria Researchers have genetically modified fungi capable of killing off malaria-causing parasites in mosquitoes, and preventing parasites from developing in the first place. Malaria is transmitted from person...

February 22, 2011  |   DetectFlashDecision_Blog; Senior correspondent Ray Suarez, just back from a reporting trip, describes Guatemala as a land of exquisite beauty, but also of exquisite agony. Violence against women is systemic and widespread - part of an overall pattern...

February 18, 2011  |   Obama Proposes Boost to Global Health Funding President Obama released his fiscal year 2012 budget proposal this week, advocating cuts in foreign aid to some countries, but an increased investment overall for the State Department and the administration's Global...

February 9, 2011  |   Photo by Talea Miller, PBS NewsHour. ANTIGUA, Guatemala-- For girls growing up in rural Guatemala, it is not unusual to leave school by the age of 12, marry by 15, and give birth for the first time while still...

February 7, 2011  |   Rosa Franco de Veliz holds a photo of her daughter, Maria-Isabel, in her home in Guatemala City. At the age of 15, Maria-Isabel Veliz was kidnapped, raped and murdered. She was working at a boutique in Guatemala City when...

February 4, 2011  |   Backers of Egyptian President Mubarak on the streets of Cairo. Mohammed Abed/AFP/Getty Images U.S. Aid to Egypt in Question Massive demonstrations against Egypt's President Mubarak and a deteriorating security situation in the streets of Cairo have thrown the future...

February 1, 2011  |   Tens of thousands of protesters are filling the streets in Cairo today, responding to the call for a one-million strong demonstration against President Hosni Mubarak. While the massive uprising over the last two weeks has occurred largely without strong, centralized...

January 28, 2011  |   Executive Director of the Global Fund Michel Kazatchkine marches with AIDS advocates at the 2010 International AIDS Conference. Global Fund Facing Corruption Backlash In the wake of press reports of flagrant corruption within some projects backed by the Global...

January 24, 2011  |   The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria said Monday it has "zero tolerance" for corruption, and downplayed a media report claiming flagrant misuse of funds within some projects backed by the organization. The Associated Press reported Sunday it...

January 21, 2011  |   Republicans Call for USAID Cuts A group of 165 Republican members of the House of Representatives are calling for drastic spending cuts in foreign aid, including $1.39 billion a year from USAID, which funds health and development programs around the...

January 20, 2011  |   The rapid pace of development over the past few decades that has made China the world's second largest economy has also caused another growth explosion--an unprecedented wave of urbanization. Learn more about China's 10 largest cities, according to United Nations...

January 17, 2011  |   As the House of Representatives gears up to vote this week on a proposed repeal of the health care reform bill, public support for the move is falling. Only 25 percent of people polled now support repealing the health care...

January 14, 2011  |   Malaria patient in Tanzania. Photo by Talea Miller. Promising New Malaria Vaccine An effective malaria vaccine may be on the horizon: a Phase II trial published in the Lancet this week showed an experimental vaccine cut the risk of...

January 13, 2011  |   Lebanon's prime minister, Saad Hariri was meeting with President Obama at the White House when the resignations came in. Lebanon's President Michel Suleiman announced Thursday he will launch formal talks next week to...

January 12, 2011  |   Wednesday marks one year since a magnitude-7 earthquake devastated Haiti on January 12, 2010, killing more than 230,000 people and injuring many more. Rick Loomis, a Pulitzer-Prize winning photographer for the Los Angeles Times, arrived in Haiti one day after...

January 10, 2011  |   New figures on reconstruction aid to Haiti reveal that while billions have been pledged, international donors were slow to deliver funds in 2010. Some key figures: International donors pledged $2.01 billion for Haiti reconstruction and recovery efforts in 2010,...

January 6, 2011  |   Corail tent camp outside Port-au-Prince. NewsHour photo. Rape in Haiti Camps The risk of rape and other sex crimes for women living in Haiti's tent camps has increased over the past year, according to an Amnesty International report released...

January 5, 2011  |   Christians and supporters held a mass protest in Cairo following the bombing. Photo by AFP/Getty As Egypt's Christian community prepares to celebrate Coptic Christmas eve on Thursday, many are still mourning the New Year's Day car bombing of a...

December 30, 2010  |   Flu Cases Spike in U.K. The number of flu cases in the United Kingdom jumped nearly 45 percent in the past week, and flu-related deaths for the season reached 39. The British Department of Health says the numbers are...

December 23, 2010  |   Vatican Clarifies Condom Statement The Vatican's Congregation of the Doctrine of the Faith issued a statement Tuesday reaffirming that the church does not condone the use of condoms to prevent pregnancy, in an effort to clarify controversial statements made...

December 17, 2010  |   The NewsHour is airing a three part series on Cuba next week, beginning on December 20. Ray Suarez and the global health team traveled to the island nation earlier this month to report on signs of possible economic change, the...

December 16, 2010  |   HIV Patient 'Cured' A patient with HIV and leukemia has been declared cured of both diseases through stem cell treatment, a team of Berlin doctors wrote this week in a peer-reviewed study in the journal Blood. The results suggest the...

December 13, 2010  |   Ray Suarez is back from Havana, Cuba, where he reported on the health system, medical diplomacy and the move towards economic reforms. Watch an online-exclusive on the struggles of everyday life in Cuba and Suarez's experience as an American reporter...

December 9, 2010  |   Photo by Valentin Ottone Just One Cigarette Can Harm Health The chemicals from even one puff of a cigarette can cause immediate damage to the lungs and DNA, according to a new report issued by U.S. Surgeon General Regina...

December 8, 2010  |   Protesters run by burning tires on the street on Dec. 8, 2010 in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. Protesters reportedly set fire to the headquarters of Haiti's ruling political party Wednesday, and thousands took to the streets, forcing the...

December 6, 2010  |   The rollout of a new meningitis vaccine developed specifically with poor countries in mind began Monday in western Africa. Health officials hope to vaccinate more than 12 million people in Burkina Faso by the end of the year and...

December 2, 2010  |   The White House decorated for World AIDS Day. Photo by M.V. Jantzen. World AIDS Day On December 1, the 23rd annual World AIDS Day, UNAIDS celebrated the global reduction of new HIV infections over the past decade, while the...

December 1, 2010  |   It has been a busy year for HIV/AIDS research and policy. Here are some of the most important developments of 2010: Global Funding for AIDS Declining -UNAIDS reported this summer that support from developed nations to low-income countries for HIV/AIDS...

November 26, 2010  |   New Hope for Preventing HIV Infections A study published in The New England Journal of Medicine this week found that regular doses of an antiretroviral combination called Truvada helped protect healthy gay men from contracting HIV. Overall, patients who...

November 25, 2010  |   One in every eight adults in Mozambique is infected with HIV, and many children in the country have lost a parent, or both parents, to the disease. An art program started by Save the Children in one rural village is...

November 25, 2010  |   President Barack Obama outlined a plan to disarm the notorious Ugandan rebel group known as the Lord's Resistance Army in a letter and policy documents sent to lawmakers Wednesday. The documents request additional funding from Congress to eliminate the threat...

November 23, 2010  |   More than 400,000 babies born to HIV-positive mothers are infected with the virus each year. Risk of transmission can be reduced to less than 2 percent through prevention programs, raising hope that this type of transmission can be nearly eliminated...

November 23, 2010  |   One out of every eight adults living in Mozambique is HIV positive, and most of them are on HIV medications called antiretrovirals. These pills are life-saving for people around the world infected with HIV, but the United States and other...

November 18, 2010  |   A Ministry of Health body-collection team picks up cholera victims in Haiti. Photo by Joe Raedle/Getty Images Cholera Spreads to DR, Miami Cases of cholera have been confirmed in two people in the Dominican Republic and in Miami. Both...

November 11, 2010  |   We are starting a new feature on the Rundown from our global health unit. Once a week, we'll be publishing a roundup of important health stories around the world you should know about. Here are our top five from...

November 9, 2010  |   Cholera has officially spread to Port-au-Prince, where more than a million people are living in crowded tent camps and slums, prime conditions for spreading the highly contagious disease. Testing confirmed a 3-year-old boy living in one of those tent camps...

November 8, 2010  |   A second Russian journalist was assaulted Monday near Moscow, two days after a brutal attack left a well-known political reporter in a coma. Both men have reported on a wide range of issues and no motive has been determined yet,...

November 2, 2010  |   House Minority Leader John Boehner. Photo by AFP/Getty Images Updated 10:45 a.m. ET As voters cast their ballots Tuesday, Republicans appear poised to take control of the House of Representatives, riding a wave of anti-incumbent sentiment and frustration over...

October 27, 2010  |   Deaths from Haiti's cholera outbreak are slowing, but health experts warn that the threat of further spread, fueled by chronically unsanitary conditions, is still very real. At least 284 Haitians have died of the highly-contagious waterborne illness in the...

October 19, 2010  |   Women wait with their babies in the HIV ward of the Primeiro de Maio Centro de Saude in Maputo, Mozambique, one of the largest health facilities in the city. Parents of HIV positive children waited for hours at the...

October 18, 2010  |   MAPUTO, MOZAMBIQUE | Maputo's streets were buzzing with commercial activity Monday and its beaches packed over the weekend with families having picnics and friends sharing beers. But just last month, there was a very different scene here: riots over...

October 11, 2010  |   The recent discovery that U.S. researchers intentionally infected Guatemalans with STDs in the 1940s spurred angry responses and an apology from President Obama to Guatemala's President Alvaro Colom. Now the directors of the CDC and the National Institutes of Health...

October 6, 2010  |   A red-tinged toxic sludge has been winding its way though villages in Hungary this week - the result of a metal plant reservoir that burst its banks in Ajka. The images have been both striking and shocking and local...

September 14, 2010  |   Pneumococcal disease is one of the leading causes of death for children around the world, killing more than 800,000 children younger than 5 every year, according to the World Health Organization. But the deadly illness, which can cause a...

September 14, 2010  |   When the NewsHour team first met George Exantus in Port-au-Prince we were immediately captivated by his story: a prize-winning competitive dancer, Exantus lost his right leg below the knee after he was pinned under rubble for two days in the...

September 4, 2010  |   Malaria causes about 1 million deaths around the world each year, but not all the medication donated to fight the disease is reaching its intended targets. The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria -- the largest international funder...

September 3, 2010  |   Nervous Afghanis are rushing to withdraw money from Afghanistan's largest bank following the resignation of two top executives and allegations of mismanagement and corruption. The New York Times reported this week Kabul Bank's losses could exceed $300 million, an amount...

August 27, 2010  |   NewsHour Special Correspondent Jeffrey Kaye is in Pakistan this week, reporting on the aftermath of devastating monsoon flooding that left at least 8 million people in need of aid. In the audio slide show below, Kaye narrates photos he took...

August 23, 2010  |   Plans to free 33 miners trapped in a copper and gold mine in Chile could take four months, according to the head of rescue operations, but the country's president has appealed to other nations to help speed the rescue...

August 19, 2010  |   An estimated 4 million people are now homeless and 20 million affected by the severe monsoon-season flooding in Pakistan. Access to clean water and medical services is limited, driving up the risk for disease outbreaks. UNICEF's senior emergency health adviser,...

August 16, 2010  |   It's been a summer of extreme weather: monsoon flooding is wreaking havoc in Pakistan and a persistent heat wave is fueling wildfires and creating health hazards in Russia. The United States has also not been immune, as sweltering high...

August 13, 2010  |   In another turn of the Iran nuclear story, Russia will begin loading fuel rods into Tehran's first nuclear power station at Bushehr next week, a Russian spokesperson said Friday. The U.S. has been critical of Russia's involvement in building the...

August 13, 2010  |   A growing body of research indicates puberty is starting earlier among girls in the United States and Europe, raising new questions about the roles of obesity and exposure to chemicals in accelerating development. More girls in the United States are...

August 12, 2010  |   A new gene mutation that can make bacteria into "superbugs" capable of resisting almost all antibiotics is spreading from India and Pakistan and popping up around the globe, according to British researchers. The Lancet medical journal published a paper Wednesday...

August 9, 2010  |   As wildfires and a record-setting heatwave continue to pummel Russia Monday, death rates in Moscow are also rising as residents navigate smoke-laden streets and record temperatures. Heat stroke and complications from air quality have nearly doubled death rates in...

August 6, 2010  |   Wheat prices retreated slightly but held near a two-year high Friday in reaction to a Russian announcement banning grain exports through the end of the year due to severe drought and wildfires. "We need to prevent a rise in...

August 4, 2010  |   Floodwaters spread Wednesday into Pakistan's populous Punjab province, heightening a humanitarian crisis that has killed more than 1,500 people and left 3.2 million needing food aid and assistance. Heavy monsoon rains set off the worst flooding the nation has seen...

July 29, 2010  |   The tent camps of Port-au-Prince have all the makings of disease breeding grounds; thousands of people living in temporary shelters, in very close contact, completely reliant on aid for clean water and sanitation services. But as the disaster response...

July 23, 2010  |   AIDS Conference in Vienna; Photo by Steve Forrest/International AIDS Society VIENNA, Austria | This year's International AIDS Conference, drawing to a close Friday, produced among other things a high-profile scientific breakthrough, endless policy discussions and plenty of new research...

July 22, 2010  |   VIENNA, Austria | Global AIDS leaders continue to call for sustaining and increasing HIV/AIDS funding in the face of the global economic crisis at the International AIDS Conference this week. "For the first time we are seeing funding going down,"...

July 21, 2010  |   VIENNA, Austria | Europe now has the fastest growing HIV epidemic in the world, due in large part to intravenous drug use, the World Health Organization told the International AIDS Conference in Vienna Wednesday. The epidemic is disproportionately affecting Eastern...

July 20, 2010  |   VIENNA, Austria | In a big step forward for the field of HIV prevention, a new study shows for the first time a microbicide gel provided significant protection for women from HIV infection. Use of a vaginal gel containing the...

July 15, 2010  |   It's nearly dusk in Port-au-Prince on a recent sweltering summer evening, and four women at the Health Center of Croix des Bouquets are in the early stages of labor. They are all expected to give birth by morning and...

July 14, 2010  |   With 1.5 million Haitians still living in tent camps, international organizations and the government are struggling to find legally available land for new settlements and ways to decongest the existing camps. The government is now advising people who can return...

July 14, 2010  |   All week the NewsHour is reporting on the state of recovery in Haiti, six months after a powerful earthquake devastated the impoverished island nation. As we've reported earlier, thousands of Haitians continue to live in tent camps after their homes...

July 9, 2010  |   PORT-AU-PRINCE | Renette Saintjuste stocks a dizzying mix of items for her tiny makeshift shop in the Centre Sportif Dadadou tent camp in Haiti's capital. Fresh eggs, dried pasta, soap, earrings and cookware are all for sale to her...

July 8, 2010  |   An estimated 1.5 million Haitians were displaced in January's earthquake. Six months later, the majority of that population is still living in tent settlements and the medical infrastructure is still fragile. A reporting team from the PBS NewsHour, including senior...

July 5, 2010  |   Initial results from weekend gubernatorial elections in Mexico indicate neither the ruling party nor the main opposition party achieved an overwhelming victory, despite predictions that anger over high levels of drug-violence could cause backlash against the president. Key political...

June 29, 2010  |   In an effort to keep its license to operate in China, Google will stop automatically rerouting mainland China users to an uncensored version of its search engine, the company announced late Monday. Under the previous configuration google.cn users were...

June 24, 2010  |   Fake drugs manufactured to resemble dozens of well-known pharmaceutical brands are making their way across international borders and threatening lives, the World Customs Organization said Thursday. "Countries across the globe, in particular those in Africa, suffer the scourge of being...

June 23, 2010  |   There are still unanswered questions about cell phone use and cancer risks, but a new study could alleviate parents of at least one fear. Children whose mothers lived near cell phone towers while they were pregnant do not have an...

June 18, 2010  |   The State Department and USAID announced eight focus countries that will get extra help from Obama's proposed six-year, $63 billion Global Health Initiative Friday. The new plan aims to better integrate health services and in particular improve mother and...

June 17, 2010  |   As Haiti continues to rebuild from January's earthquake, educating and training more Haitian doctors and nurses is essential to reviving and restructuring the country's hobbled health system, says the country's health minister. "The state of New York has more...

June 6, 2010  |   Updated 5:05pm ET BP increased estimates for the amount of oil being siphoned from a ruptured well in the Gulf of Mexico Sunday, reporting on its website that 10,500 barrels of oil were recovered by a containment system on Saturday....

June 3, 2010  |   The oil from the BP leak could reach far beyond the Gulf of Mexico, according to a new computer model released Thursday that shows currents could carry some of the slick up the Atlantic coast. The creators of the model,...

June 1, 2010  |   On Tuesday's NewsHour, Ray Suarez explores the growing rates of obesity in China, but Beijing is certainly not alone in dealing with this modern-day health crisis-- about 400 million adults are obese worldwide, and 1.6 billion are overweight, according...

May 24, 2010  |   Fewer children are dying around the world each year and the decline in child deaths is accelerating, according to a study published Monday in the Lancet. The research, done by the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation at the...

May 20, 2010  |   World health ministers agreed Thursday that alcohol advertising targeted to young people should be limited, and sponsorships regulated. The non-binding plan, approved by the World Health Organization's 193-member states, urges countries to take action to control alcohol marketing and prices,...

May 19, 2010  |   Leaders of Thailand's Red Shirt anti-government opposition surrendered to the police in front of followers Wednesday, after six days of violent clashes with security forces. Rioters set fires at the Stock Exchange, several banks and Central World, one of...

May 18, 2010  |   Secretary of State Hillary Clinton announced Tuesday that China, Russia and Western powers have agreed to a draft sanctions resolution against Iran for its nuclear program after months of negotiations. "We have reached agreement on a strong draft with...

May 14, 2010  |   Eight people are reported dead and more than 100 injured in clashes between Thai anti-government protesters and military soldiers that began Thursday and raged into the night Friday. "It's absolute chaos in the city of Bangkok now," said BBC...

May 13, 2010  |   <!-- _pap_embeddable; //--><!]]> Ongoing political unrest in Thailand took a new turn Thursday after an anti-government army general aiding the country's Red Shirt protesters was shot in the head as he spoke with foreign reporters in Bangkok. Khattiya Sawatdiphol...

May 12, 2010  |   On May 12, 2008, a 7.9-magnitude earthquake hit China's Sichuan province, leaving more than 70,000 people dead and 18,000 missing. In an effort to document what life is like in the region now, the American Red Cross distributed 200 disposable...

May 7, 2010  |   Modern humans and Neanderthals are more closely connected in the gene pool than expected, according to new research. The results, published in the journal Science on Friday, show that Neanderthals and humans are "incredibly similar" when comparing proteins encoded by...

April 30, 2010  |   Gonorrhea may soon become untreatable, due in large part to the misuse of the antibiotics currently used against the sexually transmitted disease, the World Health Organization warned Thursday. Not only are the cheaper, first-line medications for gonorrhea becoming less effective...

April 22, 2010  |   The city of Juárez, Mexico, across the border and a short drive from El Paso, has become known as Mexico's "murder capital," at the epicenter of drug violence that has plagued the country and escalated since 2008. Although official numbers...

April 14, 2010  |   The number of women dying from childbirth has dropped dramatically -- by about 35 percent -- around the world since 1980, according to a new study released Monday by the Lancet. Maternal deaths fell from more than 526,000 in...

April 12, 2010  |   Thailand's ruling party faced new calls for its dissolution Monday, following a bloody weekend that saw at least 21 people killed and 800 injured in heated clashes between protesters and riot police in Bangkok. Thailand's Election Commission ordered the...

April 8, 2010  |   The president of Kyrgyzstan vowed Thursday he would not resign his post, a day after deadly clashes in the country's capital forced him to flee office. With President Kurmanbek Bakiyev taking shelter at an undisclosed location in the south of...

April 1, 2010  |   Washington, D.C., resident Bob Hoff has been HIV positive for more than 25 years, but has no detectable viral load and has never had to take medication. Over the years he has seen many friends die of AIDS, but his...

March 31, 2010  |   During Oscar Ccencho Huamani's three-year battle with multi-drug resistant tuberculosis, he was forced to quit his job because he was too weak to work. Like so many other recovered TB patients living in Peru, he needed an income desperately to...

March 18, 2010  |   Ray Suarez recently traveled to Peru for a series of reports that will examine the country's health issues as well its economy -- including its evolution from a widely erratic marketplace with a devalued currency to a more stable economy...

March 11, 2010  |   Preliminary results in Iraq's first parliamentary elections since 2003 began to trickle in Thursday, with current Shiite Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki leading in two provinces in the south and a secular challenger ahead in two northern provinces. The prime...

March 9, 2010  |   Dozens of outfits donned by first lady Michelle Obama have been analyzed by fashion critics and the public -- her bold color choices, her support of up-and-coming designers and her penchant for mixing bargain pieces into her wardrobe. Now the...

March 8, 2010  |   Just back from a reporting trip to Peru, Ray Suarez sat down with Hari Sreenivasan to share his observations of the South American country, which is experiencing economic growth despite the global recession. He previews his upcoming series on Peru's...

February 26, 2010  |   LIMA, PERU -- Each afternoon, in the Santa Rosa slum built into the steep hillside surrounding Lima, a group of 15 women meet to knit. Surrounded by spools of alpaca yarn, they take up their needles and piece together...

February 17, 2010  |   Recovery from the January earthquake that is believed to have killed hundreds of thousands of Haitians and left even more homeless could cost up to $14 billion, according to Latin America's main development bank. The Inter-American Development Bank's preliminary estimate...

February 10, 2010  |   British Columbia is offering an interesting gift to athletes and spectators attending the Winter Olympics in Vancouver-- a free H1N1 shot. The campaign is part of Canada's attempt to prevent another wave of the flu virus and keep participants and...

February 2, 2010  |   Updated 6:30pm ET In the wake of the arrest of ten American missionaries in Haiti detained on charges of illegally trying to take 33 children out of the country -- the missionaries say they were going to set up an...

February 1, 2010  |   Long lines form outside the immigration and emigration office in Port-au-Prince each day as Haitians wait hours, or even days, to apply for new passports or to replace old ones destroyed or lost in the Jan. 12 earthquake. Many of...

January 25, 2010  |   Haiti's Prime Minister Jean-Max Bellerive sought international commitments to aid his country in recovery from this month's devastating earthquake, saying it would take at least 5 to 10 years of reconstruction efforts. "Haiti will need massive support in the medium...

January 19, 2010  |   <!-- _pap_embed_custom; //--><!]]> Freelance photographer Don Mirra, who often works with humanitarian organizations, has traveled to Haiti several times, most recently in 2007. His photographs depict the everyday life and struggles in Haiti and the Port-au-Prince area. In this photo...

January 17, 2010  |   President Barack Obama Sunday issued an executive order mobilizing selected military reserves, including medical staff to work from hospital ships and Coast Guard personnel, to bolster aid efforts in Haiti. He wrote it is "necessary to augment the active Armed...

January 14, 2010  |   Treating the injured is still the first priority in Port au Prince, but experts are raising the alarm about the urgent need to address other health issues before it's too late. Dr. Tammam Aloudat, of the International Federation of Red...

January 13, 2010  |   Pledges for financial aid and rescue workers for Haiti are pouring in from around the globe, as aid organizations on the ground start to assess the magnitude of the humanitarian crisis left in the wake of Tuesday's devastating quake. Country...

January 7, 2010  |   The Environmental Protection Agency proposed stricter new limits on smog Thursday that could have big health benefits, but could also cost up to $90 billion for corporations and the government to implement. The proposal would limit smog to a level...

December 30, 2009  |   Updated 3:48pm ET As many as eight Americans have been killed by a suicide bomber in eastern Afghanistan, the Associated Press and other media organizations reported Thursday, citing U.S. and NATO officials. None of the victims were soldiers, according a...

December 29, 2009  |   Getting paid to keep your family healthy? That's the idea behind Mexico's innovative conditional cash transfer program, Oportunidades, which gives cash payouts to parents who take steps to keep themselves and their children well. The program is an effort to...

December 28, 2009  |   Among the sidebars in the debate over health care reform is the trend of U.S. citizens without health insurance or comprehensive coverage making their way south of the border to Mexico, where major surgeries are often performed for a fraction...

December 24, 2009  |   Yemeni forces backed by U.S. intelligence attacked alleged al-Qaida hide-outs in eastern Yemen early Thursday, killing more than 30 militants, Yemeni security officials have told news organizations. Reports are surfacing that a Muslim cleric linked to the accused Fort Hood...

December 18, 2009  |   A truly environmentally friendly international climate summit would probably have to take place via the Internet, with all parties and observers comfortably parked in their favorite chairs at home. But that would mean no wheeling and dealing in the corridors,...

December 17, 2009  |   As climate negotiators prepare to work through the night in Copenhagen, the NewsHour asked several experts at the summit what they think can still be accomplished. Is there one thing that could still be accomplished at the summit that could...

December 17, 2009  |   FROM COPENHAGEN: As the clock on Copenhagen winds down, an urgent need for compromise is in the air -- but some nations are staying firm on certain conditions for a climate deal. For the U.S., China's willingness to allow international...

December 16, 2009  |   FROM COPENHAGEN: Among those looking for a productive end to the climate talks in Copenhagen Wednesday was the president of the Maldives, Mohamed Nasheed. Addressing the negotiators, Nasheed asked for some consensus leading into the final days of the summit....

December 16, 2009  |   FROM COPENHAGEN: The U.S. delegation of negotiators cancelled yet another press conference Wednesday, sparing themselves a head to head match-up with Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez who was scheduled for a simultaneous -- but separate -- appearance next door. Chavez, meanwhile,...

December 16, 2009  |   Updated at 11:07am ET FROM COPENHAGEN: Danish police cordoning off protesters outside the U.N. climate summit weren't the only ones doing damage control Wednesday. Danish Prime Minister Lars Løkke Rasmussen took over the presidency of the U.N. climate change summit...

December 15, 2009  |   Time is running out for climate summit negotiators in Copenhagen to hash out major remaining differences on a climate change agreement before the arrival of heads of state and the close of the summit Friday. The formal high-level phase of...

December 9, 2009  |   Tension between rich and poor countries hovered over climate negotiations in Copenhagen Wednesday, as developing nations fumed over the leak of a climate document drafted by Denmark. The 13-page document, known as the Danish text, was drawn up outside the...

December 4, 2009  |   President Barack Obama upped the ante on his appearance at the Copenhagen Climate Summit Friday, switching his travel plans to appear on the final day of the summit, Dec. 18, instead of Dec. 9 on his way to pick up...