Qat draws water and life from impoverished Yemen
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Lunchtime in Sanaa. Offices begin to close, the crowds disappear from the ancient souqs, restaurants hurry their last customers out: the qat is here.
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MADRI, India  - Whenever Lalibati, a poor farmer's  wife in western India, falls sick, she heads for only one  person: the local faith healer.
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GUANTANAMO BAY NAVAL BASE, Cuba - A Yemeni poet accused of crafting al-Qaida propaganda admitted he is a member of Osama bin Laden's terror network in a dramatic appearance Thursday before a U.S. military commission...
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SIDOARJO, Indonesia  - Village chief Haji Hasan is   looking for a miracle to save what is left of the Indonesian   hamlet of Kedungbendo from a torrent of mud flowing unchecked   from an exploratory oil well.
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A diplomat in Yemen says he believes 180 African migrants have drowned in recent days trying to get to Yemen.
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More than a week after floods devastated this impoverished Haitian city, aid workers were struggling to bring food and clean water to thousands of residents, some still perched on roofs.
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Al-Madinah Theater was supposed to show art films this summer. Instead it has become a home to scores of refugees, and a cultural oasis where their children can act, draw and watch movies.
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All around the periphery of the Indian Ocean last Sunday morning, people were going about their lives in the most prosaic and familiar of ways: shopping for vegetables, watching cricket on television, hauling in fishing nets, lounging at poolside.
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Yemeni and Western officials are concerned that Al Qaeda-linked radicals are among those making the journey.
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Ramallah - Ramallah, known to Palestinians as the &quot;pearl of the West Bank&quot;, is beloved for its mild climate, olive groves and white stone houses, and has now been chosen as the most fitting burial site for Yasser Arafat.
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CAIRO, Dec. 21 -- Night and day, the farmers of the island in the Nile keep watch at the lapping brown edge of the river for the return of the Egyptian army. When the island's mosques call the Muslims to prayer, Christian farmers take the watch.
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Exactly 20 years ago, when the world first woke up to television reports of Ethiopia's catastrophic drought, Girmay Assefa was staggering along hundreds of kilometres (miles) of road in the country's northern Tigray region searching for food with his mother, brother and two young sisters.
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Most  afternoons in Yemen, the men gather for social occasions and political discussions. They chew the fresh leaves of a plant called khat. The leaves are a mild stimulant and the men store them in their cheeks as they talk. Though they may be armed with machine guns,  Kalashnikov rifles and crescent-shaped swords, there is never any fighting at these events. The purpose is to bond, negotiate power relationships, share information, make policy decisions and explore solutions to particularly divisive issues. These are called "khat chews."
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DAULAT NAGAR, Pakistan -- Nusrat Riaz, a doctor for 17 years, has spent the past three directing a clinic that provides care to thousands of poor patients in this remote, wheat-farming village on the plains of Punjab.
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Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh left for visits to Germany and Italy, two of the impoverished country's key development donors, the official SABA news agency reported.
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A boat delivers food and water to a ship carrying migrants, anchored off the Mauritanian coast.
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Clean-up continues with waters still rising in some areas.