DAKAR (Reuters) - Unidentified attackers sliced the left ears off 17 people in Senegal's restive southern province of Casamance, a region long plagued by separatist rebel violence, police in the West African country said on Thursday.
From China's earthquake to cyclone-ravaged Myanmar, many Central Texans are trying to reach out and help. But the Better Business Bureau (BBB) is warning people not to get duped when donating to these relief efforts.
Aid agencies are frustrated by slow progress in getting relief supplies to victims of Cyclone Nargis, which struck Burma on 2-3 May.
The official death toll is almost 78,000, with tens of thousands of people missing. Many more have no clean water...
Witnesses in Burma have been contacting RFA Burmese service staff with heartbreaking accounts of devastation, death, and a major humanitarian crisis in the wake of Tropical Cyclone Nargis. Read their first-hand accounts of the storm and its aftermath.
The World Bank is refusing to loan money to cyclone-ravaged Myanmar, saying the country has been in arrears with the bank since 1998, bank officials said.
World Health Organization joins nations worldwide to assess state of global health and put policies forth to address crises worldwide. Sobering statistics on state of global health 2008, is focus.
Doctors for the Massachusetts Democrat say tests conducted after Kennedy suffered a seizure this weekend show a tumor in his left parietal lobe. Preliminary results from a biopsy of the brain identified the cause of the seizure as a malignant glioma...
Trash collection came to a near halt in December because there is no more room for the garbage at local dumps. As the summer draws closer and temperatures will increase, concerns mount that health risks will only increase if something is not done quickly.
Top Indian and Pakistani officials are holding talks in Islamabad to review the two countries' peace process.
The meeting is the first since a new civilian government took over in Pakistan.
