UNITED NATIONS - UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon on Tuesday announced the creation of a network of male role models to encourage men to stand up against violence against women. This "Network of...

LONDON - Most children living in orphanages throughout the developing world have at least one parent still alive, a report from a British-based charity said Tuesday. More than eight million...

MADRID, Virginie Grognou- Cash-strapped Spaniards are pulling their hair out over the economic crisis -- literally. Faced with the country's deep recession and soaring unemployment, many women are...

LAS PIEDRAS, Marina de Russe - A laptop is now finding its place alongside a notebook and pen in schoolbags in Uruguay, the first and only country to offer Internet-connected computers to all public...

KATHMANDU, Claire Cozens - Thousands of Hindu devotees have flocked to a village in Nepal ahead of the planned sacrifice of more than 300,000 animals in a ceremony condemned by animal rights...

BEIRUT- The school dropout rate among Palestinian refugees in Lebanon is alarmingly high with 50 percent of 17-year-olds and 40 percent of 16-year-olds receiving no education, UN officials warned on...

MANAGUA- Hurling homemade explosives, hundreds of Nicaraguan students attacked the country's legislature Tuesday over government plans to cut university funding, lawmakers said. The explosives...

LONDON- British actor Edward Woodward, famous for film and TV roles including "The Wicker Man," Australian feature "Breaker Morant" and US series "The Equalizer," died in hospital Monday aged 79, his...

SYDNEY, Madeleine Coorey - By the time she was seven, Caroline Carroll had known all kinds of abuse. The couple she thought were her parents had tried to drown her in the bath, had physically hurt...