British singer Robin Gibb, an iconic voice of the disco era of the 1970s, died Sunday in London after a long fight against cancer. He was 62 years old.   Gibb and his brothers Barry and Maurice formed their band, appropriately named the Bee Gees, for the Brothers...

When the government of Sudan decided to ramp up efforts to eradicate river blindness, they looked to the nation’s women. This month the country’s Ministry of Health announced the strategy appears to have worked in at least one region, Abu Hamad. The key innovation to eliminating the disease was...

MOGADISHU - Somalia's capital, Mogadishu, is experiencing something of a building boom.  After throwing off the shackles of al-Qaida-linked radicals, its citizens have begun carting away the rubble and repairing the damage of two decades as Africa's worst failed state.    ​​Eight months ago, Mogadishu's bombed out parliament...

JERUSALEM - There is growing concern in Israel about an influx of tens of thousands of migrants from Africa.  The flood of illegal African migrants entering Israel topped the agenda at the weekly Cabinet meeting in Jerusalem. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu warned the migrants are “threatening the fabric...