Like many articles on sub-Saharan Africa, the Sept. 18 editorial "Another Green Revolution?" ignored a key factor that contributes to the hunger and poverty afflicting so many in that region: overpopulation. The number of malnourished people there has skyrocketed from 88 million in 1970 to more than 200 million now. In this same period, the region's population has more than doubled to 750 million.

David Ignatius guesses that the average age of the people he saw shouting "death to America" during his visit to Iran was well over 40 ["An Era of Anger and Jihad," op-ed, Sept. 13]. There may be demographic as well as social and political factors contributing to the graying of Iranian anger, and it bodes well for the country's future.

In its full glory, the map spans a wall and the world, some 9 million blue and orange grid cells representing, in toto, the projected distribution of people around the globe in the year 2025.

In its full glory, the map spans a wall and the world, some 9 million blue and orange grid cells representing, in toto, the projected distribution of people around the globe in the year 2025.

The world's largest gathering of HIV/AIDS experts and activists will meet in Toronto starting on Sunday with renewed hopes of halting the spread of this devastating disease, which an estimated 40 million people are currently living with.

Thousands of delegates from around the world gather in Toronto, Canada, next month for the Sixteenth International Aids Conference, and a leading human rights group has urged them to consider the following cases.

When thousands of delegates from around the world gather in Toronto next month for the Sixteenth International AIDS Conference, a leading human rights group has urged them to consider the following cases.

Want to buy a piece of beach property? You might want to consult a map first -- and read up on the recent scientific findings that the ice caps in both Antarctica and Greenland seem to be melting, and fast.

Just three weeks after Sept. 11, 2001, the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette published a John Deering cartoon that is worthy of framing. A turbaned group of Taliban members are pictured deep in a cave, staring wide-eyed at a leaflet bearing the grim ultimatum, "Give us Osama Bin Ladin or we'll send your women to college." Sure it's funny. But why?

Charles Dujon, legislative director for Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr. (D-Ill.), visited Madagascar in 2003 with the U.S. Agency for International Development and its NGO partners.