The five-day war between Georgia and the Russian Federation has had serious and lasting consequences for the civilian population caught in the crossfire. Nearly 20,000 ethnic Georgians are unable to return to their homes in South Ossetia.

JERUSALEM: The Israeli navy arrested Palestinian fishermen and foreign activists off the coast of Gaza on Tuesday, the Israeli military and the International Solidarity Movement said.

After 8 long years of Bush - a fresh start. The world is seizing this historic and hopeful moment to send a flood of global messages to Obama. YES WE CAN! YES WE CAN! YES WE CAN! YES WE CAN!

Amazing pictures of Clouds , what a sight!

Every day, millions of refugee women and girls around the world risk being raped, beaten - even killed - as they search for the firewood they need to cook for their families. It's happening everywhere from Sudan to Sri Lanka, Ethiopia to Ecuador, and it m

Open to all nationalities.Stop The DRC,becoming another Rwanda.Nearly a quarter of a million people have been displaced, and many women raped, by brutal government troops, and opposing rebels.Urge Europe to intervene now.

Attackers in Afghanistan have sprayed acid in the faces of at least 15 girls near a school in Kandahar, police say.

He's also in the Guinness Book of Records as the most tattooed man on the planet. He only has one tattoo (his own words) but it covers his entire body (including the inside of his mouth and ears) and it has multiple layers.

Mary is a pretty five-year-old girl with big brown eyes and a father who kicked her out onto the streets in one of the most dangerous parts of the world. Her crime: the local priest had denounced her as a witch and blamed her "evil powers" for causing her

Despite his stated desire to close the American prison at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, President Bush has decided not to do so, and never considered proposals drafted in the State Department and the Pentagon that outlined options for transferring the detainees.