Brazil Supreme Court backs indigenous land demarcation in long-running case
Litigation over demarcation of the land, including territory around the Xingu National Park, had been ongoing for more than twenty years
Australia's Hanson wears burqa to parliament in bid to ban them
Hanson has in recent years campaigned against Islamic clothing and the building of mosques
Uganda struggles to cope as 1 mln South Sudanese refugees pour in
The trickle of refugees into Uganda swelled into a river last year after a shaky Western-backed peace deal collapsed
Brazil farmers run out of space as bumper crops pile up
From Iowa to China, years of bumper crops and low prices have overwhelmed storage capacity for corn, wheat and other basic foodstuffs.
Kitchen gardens cultivate bond between refugees, Kenyan hosts
A project in northern Kenya aims to make refugees self-reliant through farming, while helping them integrate with the local community
EXCLUSIVE-Nigeria's Chibok girls say kidnap by Boko Haram was accidental
"We wrote it together. When one person got tired, she would give it to another person to continue"
Truck driver formally indicted for 10 immigrant deaths in Texas
Incident was one of the deadliest cases of immigrant smuggling in recent US history and brought renewed attention to the dangers of human trafficking
U.S. court rules Arkansas can block Planned Parenthood funding
Planned Parenthood does not perform surgical abortions in Arkansas but it provides other gynecological services as well as birth control and breast examinations
U.N. inquiry finds Congolese militia likely killed U.N. monitors
Michael Sharp, an American, and Zaida Catalan, a Swede, were killed in central Congo on March 12 while carrying out investigations for a report
Facing risk of disease, Sierra Leone buries mudslide dead
"The morgues are just overflowing with corpses and it is becoming a public health emergency"