Topic - Ethiopia

• After 6 months of famine, Somali men return to farm

  Six months after the U.N. declared Somalia's capital a famine zone, the number of refugees in the capital is dwindling, as most of the men have gone home to try to revive devastated herds and withered crops.

• Briefly: Africa

  Gunmen in Ethiopia's arid north attacked a group of European tourists traveling in one of the world's lowest and hottest regions, killing five, wounding two and kidnapping two others, an Ethiopian official said Wednesday.

• Tourists from 5 nations are victims in Ethiopia attack

  Gunmen in Ethiopia's arid north attacked a group of European tourists, killing five, wounding two and kidnapping two, an Ethiopian official said Wednesday.

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  Chavez's spending could boost inflation for suffering consumers

  President Hugo Chavez's government is likely to spend heavily this year to rev up the economy during his re-election bid, and that could worsen one of Venezuela's biggest problems: 27 percent annual inflation that is already close to the highest in the world.

• Briefly

  An Ethiopian court convicted two Swedish journalists Wednesday of supporting terrorism after the pair illegally entered the country with an ethnic Somali rebel group.

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  Bushes plan Africa trip to spotlight health efforts

  George W. Bush and former first lady Laura Bush are bound for Africa next month to highlight female cancers and diseases such as malaria in developing countries, advancing their plan to focus on global health in the post-presidency years.

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  Somali famine victims scared to return home

  Lush patches of green dot this once-barren land, allowing goats and camels to graze. A nearby field is full of large, purple onions thanks to a U.N.-funded project.

• American Scene

  State lawmakers backed a plan Wednesday to have the state's Department of Environmental Quality conduct an independent review of possible routes the contested Keystone XL pipeline could take through the state, after developer TransCanada volunteered to reroute the massive project to avoid the environmentally sensitive Sandhills region.

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  CARLUCCI & HAMILTON & RIDGE: America at a global crossroads

  Even as Americans are understandably focused internally on getting our economic and fiscal houses in order, we are constantly reminded that the rest of the world is not standing still. A debt crisis in Europe could drag down an already struggling U.S. economy. China is using its new wealth to modernize its military and expand its influence around Asia. The Arab awakening is ushering in a new political era throughout the Middle East. War and famine are ravaging the Horn of Africa.

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  Kenya's Mutai, Ethiopia's Dado win NYC Marathon

  Geoffrey Mutai of Kenya shattered the course record in the ING New York City Marathon on Sunday — no surprise after he ran the fastest marathon ever earlier this year.

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  Ex-pats return to build a new African nation — South Sudan

  Sitting in fading daylight in the front yard of a small hotel in Africa's newest nation, Jimmy Makuach recounts a life torn apart by civil war.

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  Army Ten-Miler: Sendeku breezes; Dengera surges late

  A head cold may have affected his breathing a bit but it did not stop Tesfaye Sendeku from running away with Sunday's 27th edition of the Army Ten-Miler.

• Briefly

  Retired Archbishop Desmond Tutu, an anti-apartheid hero often described as South Africa's conscience, slammed the ANC-led government as "disgraceful" and said it is worse than the country's former oppressive white regime for not issuing a visa to the Dalai Lama.

• Jimmy Carter asks for cash to wipe out guinea worm

  Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter is appealing for other donors to join Britain in a multi-million dollar campaign to wipe out guinea worm, a crippling and painful parasitic disease that now exists only in four African countries.

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  New global killers: heart, lung disease and cancer

  What's killing us? For decades, global health leaders have focused on diseases that can spread — AIDS, tuberculosis, new flu bugs. Now they are turning to a new set of culprits causing what United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon calls "a public health emergency in slow motion." This time, germs aren't the target: We are, along with our bad habits like smoking, overeating and too little exercise.

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