China?s ambassador to France warned of ?serious consequences? for Chinese-French relations if the French president meets with the Dalai Lama next month.

China?s ambassador to France warned of ?serious consequences? for Chinese-French relations if the French president meets with the Dalai Lama next month.

U.N. secretary general Ban Ki-moon called on countries to act with ?a sense of purpose and mission? to address global hunger. Instead, leaders spoke of their unique economic challenges.

Food experts and representatives from poor countries wondered whether the divided forces at the conference could devise any solution to the global hunger problem.

Leaders from around the world spoke about economic issues in their own countries and political priorities at a U.N. conference on food shortages.

Officials called the $1.5 billion donation a significant boost to their efforts to address the global food crisis, but acknowledged that much more money is required.

Hundreds of potential investors gathered for a three-day Palestine Investment Conference in Bethlehem, where projects worth some $2 billion are to be presented.

Hundreds of potential investors gathered for a three-day Palestine Investment Conference in Bethlehem, where projects worth some $2 billion are to be presented.

A cardiology conference in Baghdad, the first since 2003, was a triumph, even as two-thirds of the medical specialists has fled the country and the health care systems is in shreds.