Democratic presidential candidate Senator Barack Obama issued a statement October 12 regarding the 10 years since Matthew Shepard was murdered.

This map generator allows you to choose a category (nuclear power production, ecological footprint, etc.) and it generates a map that makes countries bigger or smaller relative to their ranking in that category. Very cool tool, take a quick look.

In Haiti, they have a name for hunger. It's called Clorox hunger - meaning something that eats you from the inside. But, my friends tell me, now it's no longer called Clorox; it's now called Battery Acid. That's how bad the suffering is in Haiti.

The Jigawa Summit, if it achieves its objectives, will become the best platform for constructing a new approach to begin to eradicate poverty; its salient feature is that it disavows the top-to-bottom approach that has not significantly achieved much for

Death of 10-yr-old girl from FGM in the Rift Valley would've gone unnoticed if not for network of conscience created by dedicated Maasai activist. Family's attempted cover-up exposed. Had call come sooner, she could've been saved, taken to Safe House

TIJUANA, Mexico - Police have found nine more bodies dumped around the Mexican border city of Tijuana, where nearly 50 people have been killed in a week of violence related to the drug trade.

"The campaign to make poverty history-a central moral challenge of our age-cannot remain a task for the few, it must become a calling for the many. On this International Day for the Eradication of Poverty, I urge everyone to join this struggle. Together!"

When the US government decided to classify Ursus maritimus as an endangered species earlier in the year, Palin sued in attempt to overturn the ruling, fearing the label would deter oil and gas exploration in Alaska.

Thousands celebrating a Hindu festival at a Jodhpur temple were panicked by false rumors of a bomb. At least 168 people were killed Tuesday morning when thousands of pilgrims stampeded at a Hindu temple in the historic town of Jodhpur in western India.

MOSCOW (Reuters) - Former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev will join forces with Russian tycoon Alexander Lebedev to launch a new political party independent of the Kremlin, the billionaire businessman said on Tuesday.