Residents' control is best answer to threat of deforestation - researchers
Expanding agriculture accounts for 73 percent of the world's forest loss
Greenpeace faces shutdown after India freezes funds in charity crackdown
Officials accused charity of misreporting funds and using unaccounted foreign aid to stall development projects
Cambodia urged to be tougher on child sex crimes after US abuser lived freely
An American man charged with grooming girls as young as three lived freely for three years before facing trial
Syrian barrel bomb attacks are "crimes against humanity" - Amnesty
Rights group says barrel bombs killed some 3,000 civilians in the northern Aleppo governorate last year, and have killed more than 11,000 in Syria since 2012
After Nepal quake, time is ripe to push for safer buildings, experts say
Nepal's death toll would have been worse but for efforts made to keep people safe, experts say
Pregnant 10-year-old rape victim denied abortion in Paraguay
Rights group says decision to force the child to go through with her pregnancy is "tantamount to torture"
Uganda's capital blazes a trail in cutting child deaths, charity says
Child deaths in Kampala fell faster than in any other African city between 2006 and 2011 - despite a large influx of refugees from war-torn neighbouring states
Washington is the world's most dangerous rich city for babies - charity
Charity Save the Children said in a new study that 6.6 babies die per 1,000 live births in the U.S. capital
Quake-hit Nepalis need information, not just food and water
"People are hungry for information and need to be able to have information which can help them," says BBC Media Action producer
Pakistan pushes to put stalled climate policy into action
Three years after establishing a national climate change policy, the country is now moving to implement it