Women in Central African Republic are 40 times more likely to die in pregnancy or childbirth than in the United States, the ...

I gave birth in the street,” she said. “There was no doctor, no midwife, and no one holding my hand.” Nearly two-thirds of ...

Mumbai, India, Manila, Philippines, and Dhaka, Bangladesh, are among the most densely populated cities in the world.

Africa's population has grown more than sixfold since 1950 and is projected to keep expanding through the end of the century ...

Cape Verde are the only African newcomers in this year's World Cup and with a population of around 600,000 are the third smallest nation to qualify in the tournament’s long history.

A South Carolina jury has begun deliberations after hearing closing arguments Monday in the trial of a store owner charged ...

Africa is the world's second-largest continent and is home to a remarkable mix of cultures, languages, landscapes, and ...

World Bank data reveals the African nations topping global birth charts-and the surprising outlier where having kids is ...

Slavery was neither central to America’s founding nor the primary source of the country’s subsequent prosperity. Yet both ...

Millions of people in central Africa rely on wild meat for their nutrition, especially in rural areas around the Congo rainforest, the second largest tropical rainforest in the world. Here, meat from ...

Ebola in Africa. Hantavirus on a cruise ship. A measles outbreak kills 560 children in Bangladesh, sickens 60,000. Major diseases are making the news. We ask ourselves, is this the next big one? Maybe ...