US Veterans of Iraq and Afghanistan are keeping youngsters safe on their walk to and from school in Chicago. Their peacekeeping efforts cut violent crime on the gang-ridden routes by 20% in the first couple of years.
A 19-year-old Chicago teen is very passionate about cancer research and has already achieved success in a lab that might lead to a vaccine for colon cancer.
Four rare gorillas caught up in a five-year international tug-of-war are expected to finally be flown back to the wilds of Cameroon, their home, where they were snatched and destined for zoos in Malaysia.
The presidents of Nigeria and Cameroon signed an agreement settling a decades-old, sometimes violent, border dispute over the oil-rich Bakassi Peninsula following intensive mediation over the weekend by the United Nations Secretary-General.
Aung San Suu Kyi, the detained democracy leader who has been under house arrest in Burma since 2003, is set to be released this weekend.
A child in the township of North Okkalapa learns how to drink water that has just been made safe by dissolving a Procter and Gamble purifying packet and stirring.
Polished rosewood, guitar frets and strings are added to the shotguns and AK-47s reclaimed through Colombia's peace process "turning tools of death into symbols of hope".
Microsoft has agreed to donate more than $300,000 to open computer centers where former paramilitary fighters will receive free training for civilian jobs.
Colombia and that country's second largest rebel group are succeeding in cease fire talks urged on by famous novelist Gabriel Garcia Marquez .
Nearly 14,000 firearms will be melted down today in Colombia in a ceremonial action highlighting the danger of illegal arms proliferation and to mark International Gun Destruction Day. The molten metal will be used to make school chairs and build a monument in memory of the victims of violence and kidnapping in Colombia,
Colombia's citizens have shed their fear and have more confidence in the State, thanks to the consolidation of democracy and security following years of fear imposed by terrorists, the South American nation's President Álvaro Uribe Vélez said at the UN General Assembly. Over two-thirds of the 60,000 terrorists who had "ravaged the country at the start of the new administration" have turned their back on criminal activity and are taking part in a reintegration program.
Ten new species of amphibians -- including three kinds of poisonous frogs and three transparent-skinned glass frogs -- have been discovered in the mountains of Colombia, scientists announced Monday.