Text message alerts prove life saver in flood-hit Nepal
"The water swept away food, clothes, kitchen utensils and everything I kept inside, apart from the beds"
China launches 8,000 water clean-up projects worth $100 bln in H1
Large amounts of China's water have been rendered unusable as a result of poorly regulated industrial expansion
White House to send memo to Pentagon soon on transgender ban
Five transgender members of the US military including Iraq and Afghanistan war veterans sued Trump earlier this month
Civilians under greater threat as Raqqa fight intensifies: Amnesty
"IS wouldn't let us leave. We had no food, no electricity"
Few nations see beyond hunger in fighting malnutrition - study
"If they have clean water... girls, when they grow up to be mothers are more likely to give birth to healthy children"
As climate change gathers pace, is livestock a problem or solution?
About 750 million people in low- and middle-income countries depend on livestock farming, which provides them with food, fuel, income and social security
Trafficked to China to marry, a Myanmar woman hopes to save others from same fate
"Using my experience as an example, I tell the girls not to blindly trust others"
Tackle Central American hunger to help cut migration, report says
Worry over having enough food is forcing people from drought-stricken Central America to migrate north to the United States
Air strikes near Houthi checkpoint kill at least 35 in Yemen
The United States and Britain provide arms and logisitical assistance to the alliance for its campaign
Canada frets over possible huge surge in asylum-seekers -sources
Critics accuse Prime Minister Trudeau of encouraging would-be refugees to come to Canada without thinking through the consequences