NEW YORK, Aug. 16 (UPI) -- MTV is sending actress/activist Angelina Jolie and economist Dr. Jeffrey Sachs to Kenya for a documentary on easing poverty and death in Africa.

SALZBURG, Austria, July 12 (UPI) -- Part 2 of 2. Access to computer technology and computer literacy are vital for any nation, rich or poor, to grow economically in the coming years.

WASHINGTON, June 30 (UPI) -- As leaders from the world's richest nations prepare to gather in the Scottish highlands next week, how the global community can unite to tackle poverty in Africa will be one of the biggest issues of concern for those watching the meetings closely.

WASHINGTON, June 3 (UPI) -- On a late-April afternoon at the end of the spring 2004 semester, representatives of the world's rich countries gathered in a polished, state-of-the-art think-t

TOKYO, March 8 (UPI) -- A United Nations official has urged Japan to keep its promise of setting aside 0.7 percent of its gross domestic product as development aid for poor nations. Jeffrey Sachs, head of the U.N. Millennium Project development plan, told the Asahi Shimbun newsp

UNITED NATIONS, Jan. 17 (UPI) -- A blue-ribbon panel of 265 leading development experts are handing U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan a strategy for combatting global poverty.

WASHINGTON, Dec. 17 (UPI) -- Democratic front-runner Howard Dean has taken two dramatic steps in foreign policy that suggest he is switching tactics and seeking to encompass the "right," or Bill Clinton wing of the Democratic Party on foreign policy.

PARIS, July 17 (UPI) -- While world leaders spent this past week in Paris talking about creating a "war chest" to fight AIDS, in Soweto and Durban and Nairobi people just died, suffering and waiting in silence for the drugs that could have saved them.

SKOPJE, Macedonia, Dec. 5 (UPI) -- Even by the imperceptible standards of eastern Europe, the crony-infested Russian version of "privatization" was remarkable for its audacity and scope. Assets now worth some $25 billion were sold for around $1 billion.