President Barack Obama arrived in the Norwegian capital on Thursday to accept his Nobel Peace Prize amid criticism he does not deserve the accolade because of his Afghan war build-up and few foreign policy successes.

Armed men are reported to have abducted dozens of students and teachers in the southern Philippines, reports say.

Growing numbers of girls in Senegal are being raped, with abuse often happening while they are at school. "I wanted to be a lawyer, that was my dream," says a young Senegalese girl, smiling.

Students are now graduating with a new degree in this type of sustainable lifestyle, focusing more on the MBA subject of environmentally-friendly businesses, rather on the Wall-Street oriented future.

Norway's recently announced 2010 whaling quota is their largest since choosing to defy the International Whaling Commission (IWC) moratorium - effectively a ban - on commercial whaling in 1993. But as Norway take hunting to new levels, so WSPA's defence

We know how to prevent genocide. But today, over 60 years after the Holocaust, the crisis in Darfur continues. One year ago this week, the Genocide Prevention Task Force issued clear recommendations for doing better, but the U.S has still fai

As an NBC news anchor and a correspondent covering many of the world's most severe humanitarian crises - from Iraq to Rwanda to Sri Lanka - Ann Curry has established herself as an enormously influential journalist. Since March 2006, Curry has devoted muc

The fall of 2009 was a truly special season for the Emsland Group: For the first time in the history of the largest German potato starch manufacturer, it processed Tilling potatoes, which exclusively contain amylopectin starch.

A year ago, Dispatches told the story of how children in Africa's Niger Delta were being denounced by Christian pastors as witches and wizards, and then killed, tortured or abandoned by their own families. Following the introduction of the Child Rights

One of the biggest problems with the years 2000-2009 is that there was no agreed-upon, easy-to-say decade name. No 'nineties' or 'twenties.' No, instead, some people argued for the 'aughts' or, occasionally, the 'zeroes' (lame)........