President Barack Obama appointed a close adviser and retired general to be his special envoy to Sudan as the administration ratchets up pressure against the government in Khartoum for expelling humanitarian relief organizations from the ravaged region of Darfur, administration officials said Wednesday. ...more

March 21, 2009

She was a beautiful, round-faced girl with large, coal-black eyes and an instant smile. Two years later, the 3-year-old is blind and scarred, her mother is dead and her father's new wife can't cope with caring for her. ...more

December 21, 2008

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti - The 5-year-old teetered on broomstick legs - he weighed less than 20 pounds even after days of drinking enriched milk. Nearby, a 4-year-old girl hung from a strap attached to a scale, her wide eyes lifeless, her emaciated arms dangling weakly. ...more

November 21, 2008

A cholera outbreak in a sprawling refugee camp has spread to eastern Congo's provincial capital of Goma, increasing fears of an epidemic amid a tense standoff between troops and rebels, officials said. ...more

November 11, 2008

A hillside school where roughly 500 students crowded into several floors collapsed during classes on Friday, killing at least 30 people and injuring many more. Rescuers used bare hands to pull bleeding students from the wreckage. ...more

November 8, 2008

Sister Emmanuelle, a nun who lived for years among scavengers in Cairo's slums and who has been compared to Mother Teresa for her fight to defend the rights of the poor, died Monday at age 99. ...more

October 21, 2008

South Florida Community College's Phi Theta Kappa (PTK) chapter will hold the PTK 2008 Honors Seminar Series, "The Paradox of Affluence: Choices, Challenges, and Consequences," during the fall 2008 term. This series of four lectures will be broadcast live via satellite to SFCC as well as college campuses across the nation. The lectures are open to students and the public, and there is no charge to attend. ...more

July 18, 2008

"Rules of Deception," by Christopher Reich (Doubleday, $24.95) ...more

July 6, 2008

President Bush announced Saturday that the United States was moving to broaden its sanctions against Zimbabwe, for the first time aiming at the government itself as well as a lengthening list of members of its governing elite, because of what he described as "a sham election." ...more

June 29, 2008

Emily Burton doesn't know where she might go in this world, but she knows what she wants to do once she gets there. ...more

May 19, 2008