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The World Health Organization today announced a major policy change. It's actively backing the controversial pesticide DDT as a way to control malaria. Malaria kills about 1 million people a year, mainly children, despite a decades-long effort to eradicate it.

In Iraqi Kurdistan, the American military's recent detention of a visiting Iranian has upset the fragile relationship between the region and Iran.

Sectarian violence has forced millions of Iraqis from their homes. An estimated 2.5 million cannot afford to cross the border and flee from one troubled region to the next. Aid workers say the internally displaced are not getting the help they desperately need.

China, India and parts of Latin America have made headway recently in fighting poverty, disease and illiteracy. But social progress in Africa has lagged, hampered by persistent wars across the continent.

Ethiopia's government is backing a series of new family-planning policies, including a ban on marrying girls before they're 18. In the northern highland village of Yinsa, some women are indifferent to the change. But a younger generation finds the country's increasing educational opportunities more appealing than early marriage.

The sheiks of the United Arab Emirates have grand plans to pour their vast oil wealth into making one of their premier cities, Abu Dhabi, a technological and cultural mecca.

Melissa Block talks with Nicholas Kristof, a columnist for the New York Times, about his recent trip to Darfur, in western Sudan. Kristof tells the story of one woman who was gang-raped by eight men. After her husband was killed, she marched across the desert with her five children to seek shelter in a refugee camp. Her youngest child later died.

As UCSD celebrates its 50th anniversary, we explore the commitment to modern art and architecture on the campus. We'll talk with campus architect Boone Hellmann and a manager from the Stuart Collection of public art.

More than 300 refugees from Myanmar have arrived in San Diego this year, fleeing from an oppressive regime. Many of them are families who were forced to leave the country decades ago and live in refug

Millions of Chinese women bound their feet, a status symbol that allowed them to marry into money. Footbinding was banned in 1912, but some women continued to do it in secret. Some of the last survivors are still living in a village in Southern China.