We focus on the first of the UN Millennium Development Goals: to eradicate extreme hunger and poverty. We gather accounts of everyday life in Rwanda, Lebanon, India, Botswana, Democratic Republic of Congo, China, Ecuador and Bangladesh.
A regional government is taking the lead in France to protect part of the Ecuadorian Amazon from oil drilling, but the unique environmental project falls far short of its funding goal.
Is organic food the gold standard we are led to believe? We start in China, where scientists are making human milk from genetically modified cattle and insist it is as healthy to drink as that from ordinary cows. Back in France, we assess how organic farming stacks up against conventional methods while in Ecuador, several hundred farmers have taken arms against the multinationals who are using organic produce as a selling point.
The United States ordered the Ecuadorian ambassador out of the country Thursday. The move is seen as retaliation for the expulsion of the US's own ambassador Heather Hodges (pictured) from Ecuador over the leak of a diplomatic cable.
Ecuador stated Tuesday it would seek to expel the US ambassador Heather Hodges over revelations published by the whistleblower website WikiLeaks that she had accused the country's police chief of corruption.
The oil giant, Chevron, loses an epic case over pollution brought on behalf of 30,000 members of Ecuador's Amazonian communities.
The Church of Scientology comes under scrutiny by the New Yorker magazine that claims it's under investigation by the FBI.
And Brazil's famed striker, Ronaldo, is packing up his boots.
A large swathe of contaminated Ecuadorian rain forest is at the centre of not only a judicial tug-of-war, but a bitter public relations battle that has been raging for almost two decades. (Photo credit: Andrea Davoust)
A court in Ecuador Monday ordered US oil giant Chevron to pay an estimated $8 billion for polluting the Amazon region. While Chevron says the ruling is the "product of fraud", representatives of Amazonian communities say the sum is far too low.
At least 30 passengers were killed after a crowded bus tumbled off a road and plunged into a ravine in southwest Ecuador on Friday, according to police officials.
The world blogosphere rallies on the occasion of the Cancun climate change summit. Quito, the Ecuadorian capital declares war on chewing-gum, the web reacts. And a site allows patients to give their opinion on various drugs.
