The world financial crisis not only hurt balance sheets but could sabotage poor countries' efforts to get more children into school, according to a report released Tuesday by the U.N. education agency. UNESCO urged more funding and attention for those shut out ...

Mexican President Felipe Calderon said Wednesday that jobs and reducing poverty will be his top two priorities in 2010, while the fight against drug cartels that dominated the first half of his presidency placed third. In a televised speech, the conservative president promised historic levels of investment in ...

Malawi's ex-president Bakili Muluzi, who ruled from 1994 to 2004, announced Wednesday his retirement from active politics, stepping down as chairman of his former governing party.
"I have seen it fit to retire from active politics and from the position of party chairman of the United Democratic Front," he told a news conference at his upmarket residence in Limbe ...