Dame Endalew is in his final year at St. Paul’s Medical College in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. (Photo by Anders Kelto.)Ethiopia moving to address doctor shortage; critics say corners being cutSource: PRI Ethiopia has struggle...

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It may pay to look beyond the Premier League for value over the weekend and one game that stands out to me as likely to produce plenty of action on statistics is the League One clash at Glanford Park.

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"I would not normally comment on a Hollywood film," the acting director said, weighing in on the controversy over the issue of torture raised by "Zero Dark Thirty."

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A European Parliament delegation's visit to Bahrain this week was big news in the kingdom's state news media; calls by the delegates to free "prisoners of conscience" got less attention.

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Maikel Nabil, an Egyptian blogger who was jailed for eight months last year by Egypt's military for expressing his views on politics and religion, began a tour of Israel this week.

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President Obama announced on Friday that he had spoken to House Speaker John Boehner (R-OH) and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) since the failure of the GOP's so-called Plan B and "offered to compromise with Republicans in Congress" in the ongoing negotiations to avert the so-called fiscal cliff. Obama said he is "ready and [...]

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In an article in the new issue of Finance & Development magazine, President Bill Clinton shares his experience working with governments, business, and civil society as part of his Clinton Global Initiative. He says they are making the most progress in places where people have formed networks of creative cooperation where stakeholders come together to do things better, faster and cheaper than any could alone.

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"Fareed Zakaria GPS," Sundays at 10 a.m. and 1 p.m. ET. This week on GPS, Fareed looks beyond the fiscal cliff and discusses what might be in store for the American economy in 2013 with economists Glenn Hubbard and Peter Orszag, and commentators Zanny Minton Beddoes and Chrystia Freeland. And in What in the World: [...]

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By Mabrouka M'Barek, Special to CNN Editor's note: Mabrouka M'Barek is a Tunisia Constituent Assembly member. The views expressed are the author's own. I will always remember how angry I felt two years ago when, comfortably seated at my home in Vermont, I began to read leaked diplomatic cables from Tunisia. The cables described in [...]

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Reporting on President Jacob Zuma's landslide re-election as leader of South Africa's governing African National Congress (ANC) on Tuesday, the BBC sought the opinion of former apartheid ruler F. W. de Klerk. De Klerk "... told the BBC that a significant proportion of the South African population were unhappy with Mr Zuma." It then quotes the [...]

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Reporting on President Jacob Zuma's landslide re-election as leader of South Africa's governing African National Congress (ANC) on Tuesday, the BBC sought the opinion of former apartheid ruler F. W. de Klerk. De Klerk "... told the BBC that a significant proportion of the South African population were unhappy with Mr Zuma." It then quotes the [...]

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President Hollande said on December 21 that the French national kidnapped in northern Nigeria was the victim of an armed...

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