A year of record food prices has forced millions of parents in the developing world to cut back on food for their children, says aid agency Save the Children.
The world has made dramatic progress in reducing child deaths, down from 12 to 7.6 million, but this momentum will stall if we fail to tackle malnutrition," said Save the Children chief executive Justin Forsyth
After years of international pressure and the repeated failure of negotiations and offers of talks with Tehran, talk has grown in recent months of a pre-emptive strike against Iranian nuclear facilities
Price growth has been one of the biggest problems facing China over the past few years, not least because it imports most of the oil and commodities it consumes.
After decades of communist rule, the government has slowly loosened its restrictions on private enterprise - and the US has taken steps to ease its economic embargo
From Big Ben, to the Colosseum and the Eiffel tower, the museum has 450kg of chocolate artefacts, paintings and even replicas of stadiums that will host Euro 2012
New network Path has based its concept on Dunbar's theory which suggests that one person can only maintain around 150 stable friendships and acquaintances at any one time
A man has drowned after being attacked by a swan, which knocked him out of his kayak and stopped him swimming to shore. So how dangerous are these graceful white birds
