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In Ica, Peru, zero unemployment doesn't solve the bustling city's problems

Posted: 28 Jun 2011 05:23 PM PDT

Wealth in the agricultural powerhouse doesn't trickle down far, and a jump in jobs has come with a rise in disease and decline in education.

Ica, in southern Peru, is known as a city of zero unemployment.

Potential treatment for sleeping sickness to be tested

Posted: 28 Jun 2011 03:46 PM PDT

Clinical trials are set for an inexpensive, oral drug to treat trypanosomiasis, a promising alternative to current remedies, which are typically not available in the African countries where the deadly disease is most common.

Researchers are gearing up for a clinical trial of what they hope will be the first inexpensive, oral drug to treat trypanosomiasis, commonly known as sleeping sickness.

Landmark Afghan hotel attacked

Posted: 28 Jun 2011 03:16 PM PDT

Gunmen and suicide bombers strike the tightly secured Intercontinental Hotel in Kabul, which has a large foreign clientele.

A team of gunmen and suicide bombers struck a landmark hotel in the Afghan capital Tuesday evening, police said, setting off an hours-long battle that killed at least six people and ended only after NATO helicopters swooped in to help.

Violence flares in Athens as Greek Parliament debates painful austerity measures

Posted: 28 Jun 2011 12:13 PM PDT

Youths and police clash amid a 48-hour nationwide strike in protest of proposed service cuts and tax hikes in Greece meant to assure European Union bailout funds and avoid a default that analysts say would trigger a global financial panic.

Wielding wooden batons, iron bars and firecrackers, scores of militant youths on Tuesday clashed with police in central Athens, targeting the Finance Ministry and other symbols of Greece's austerity efforts as Parliament debated hugely unpopular budget cuts.

Libya rebels seize Kadafi arms depot

Posted: 28 Jun 2011 08:19 AM PDT

After two opposition fighters are killed and government forces flee, rebels plunder the vast arsenal that residents had avoided for fear of the Libyan leader's wrath.

Nothing but a flimsy barbed wire fence surrounds a massive arsenal of ammunition and weapons stockpiled here in the desert by Libyan leader Moammar Kadafi.