The new US prison for captured insurgents lies in the middle of a former Soviet minefield, on the northeastern side of the main American militry base in Afghanistan.

NFL, union contributing $50,000 to aid victims of tsunami that struck American Samoa. The NFL and the NFL Players Association are contributing $50,000 to help victims of the tsunami that struck American Samoa in September.

Red Cross closes warehouse, auctions off doll, Civil War-era flag to shrink its deficit. Rose Percy has a long history with the American Red Cross. Complete with an extensive wardrobe and her own Tiffany jewelry, this 23-inch wax doll was first sold for $1,200 back in 1864 to benefit the U.S. Sanitary Commission ? the precursor to one of best-known U.S. charities.

Buenos Aires marriage license is a first for same-sex couples in Latin America. Two men were granted a marriage license in Argentina's capital on Monday, breaking ground in a country and region where laws ban gay marriage.

Survey: Gov'ts consider climate change the biggest humanitarian challenge facing the world. A global network of aid agencies says world powers consider climate change the most significant challenge to humanitarian work.

Red Cross closes warehouse, auctions off doll, Civil War-era flag to shrink its deficit. Rose Percy has a long history with the American Red Cross. Complete with an extensive wardrobe and her own Tiffany jewelry, this 23-inch wax doll was first sold for $1,200 back in 1864 to benefit the U.S. Sanitary Commission ? the precursor to one of best-known U.S. charities.

Survey: Gov'ts consider climate change the biggest humanitarian challenge facing the world. A global network of aid agencies says world powers consider climate change the most significant challenge to humanitarian work.

Climate change is the leading cause of new challenges for the humanitarian community, a survey of G20 governments commissioned by the Red Cross revealed Tuesday.

The World Health Organisation announced on Tuesday that the largest ever round of yellow fever vaccinations, for about 12 million people, would be launched in three West African countries next week.

FACT CHECK: A look at moving Guantanamo detainees to US prisons, possibly in Ill., Mich.. As the Obama administration considers a plan to move Guantanamo Bay detainees to prisons on U.S. soil, including possible sites in Illinois and Michigan, proponents and critics are spinning the facts.

At least 50 people are feared drowned after a packed passenger ferry crashed into an oil barge in an area of Myanmar hit by a devastating cyclone last year, local officials said on Tuesday.

French Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner on Wednesday signed a two million euro (three million dollar) reconstruction project for a Gaza hospital heavily damaged during Israel's offensive.

OTTAWA (Reuters) - Senior Canadian military and government officials ignored evidence that Afghan authorities were torturing detainees handed over by Canada's troops and then tried to silence those who raised the alarm, a senior diplomat said on Wednesday.

Malian singer Salif Keita and the Red Cross on Thursday made a joint appeal for better protection of albinos in Africa's Great Lakes region, where dozens of them have been brutally murdered.

The only rule is to be perched on heels at least eight centimetres (three inches) high -- the prize is boxes and boxes of shoes.

Canadian government attacks diplomat who testified country turned blind eye to Afghan abuses. Canada's defense minister on Thursday attacked the credibility of a senior Canadian diplomat who alleged that government officials ignored evidence that prisoners handed over to Afghanistan's intelligence service a few years ago were tortured.

Cattle raiders shot dead 11 villagers in eastern Kenya Sunday, the latest in a string of violent incidents caused by drought, the local member of parliament said.

At least 51 people were killed and more than a quarter of a million displaced after tropical storm Ketsana dumped the heaviest rainfall on capital Manila in more than four decades, officials said Sunday.

At least 51 people were killed and more than 250,000 displaced after tropical storm Ketsana dumped the heaviest rainfall on the Philippine capital in more than four decades, officials said Sunday.

At least 52 people were killed and more than a quarter of a million displaced after the heaviest rain in more than four decades plunged the Philippine capital into turmoil, officials said Sunday.