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 Pack your bags for Baghdad? Iraq looks to tourismSomeone had fun tinkering with the airline board at the old, disused terminal at Baghdad International Airport. It advertises a "special flight" on Japan Airlines from Basra to Sydney, Australia, while a flight from Baghdad to Mexico City is "delayed."
UN officials say Congo prisoners dying of hunger
At least 26 prisoners have died of hunger in a prison in Congo since the beginning of the year, U.N. officials said.
UN says 14 million in Africa's Horn need food aid
Dahir Abdi Salah used to feed his children three meals a day - pancakes for breakfast, spaghetti for lunch and beans for dinner.
An understanding of emotional eating is needed
I’m writing in response to the article about the high percentage of overweight adults in San Mateo County (“Fat fighters pushing preventative programs,” July 16). In our culture, there is a lack of understanding about the issue and the approach needed to solve the problem.
AU to seek delay in al-Bashir indictment
The African Union will ask the U.N. Security Council to suspend action for a year on a prosecutor's request for a warrant to arrest Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir for his alleged role in the atrocities in Darfur, Nigeria's foreign affairs minister said on Monday.
Summary of charge against Karadzic
Under an indictment last amended in May 2000, the U.N. war crimes tribunal charged former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic with 15 counts of genocide, war crimes, crimes against humanity and other atrocities committed between 1992 to 1996.
Excerpts of Radovan Karadzic indictment
Excerpts from the 1995 U.N. war crimes tribunal indictment charging former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic and his wartime military commander, Gen. Ratko Mladic, with genocide and crimes against humanity in Bosnia:
Radovan Karadzic arrested in Serbia
The office of Serbia's president says former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic, a top war crimes suspect, has been arrested in Serbia.  Myanmar cyclone damage estimated at $4 billionSurvivors of Myanmar's Cyclone Nargis face a "second emergency" unless relief efforts receive an influx of $1 billion in international aid over the next three years, according to the first full assessment of the disaster released Monday.
U.S. troops train Georgians amid tension
President Mikhail Saakashvili praised a joint military training program involving more than 1,000 U.S. Marines and soldiers at a former Soviet base Monday, amid heightened tensions with Moscow.
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