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Malaria drugs are expensive, and the disease is becoming resistant. But nothing can resist microwaves.

In Thienaba, Senegal, David Arquette discovers that preventing malaria doesn't always require high-tech solutions.

* 12 million people affected by Horn of Africa drought * Famine will worsen if October rains don't arrive [More]

You say you want a revolution?

Google wants Voice Search to master the Tower of Babel. So Linne Ha travels the world, gathering the language samples used to train it

When a sustainability consulting firm told Swedish burger chain Max Burgers that its main problem was selling beef, the company actually started trying to sell less of its main product. Okay, you're a burger chain.

In Africa, waiting for blood work can take weeks, and many people don't bother getting their results. A new device could make testing in remote villages a possibility, and that could lead to drastically improved treatment. If you were concerned you had HIV (and lived in America), it would be easy enough to get some blood drawn at a clinic near your house, and wait a few days (or even hours) for the results.

Solar Sisters gives start-up funds--and a $500 "business-in-a-bag"--to door-to-door solar saleswomen, illuminating villages and offering exceptional economic benefits to communities. The ubiquitous AVON saleswomen traveled first by foot, then horse and buggy, and eventually by car to sell cosmetics door to door. In the process, the company built a global business that now earns $10 billion annually.

By Christine Stebbins CHICAGO (Reuters) - Rich countries grabbing farmland in Africa to feed their growing populations can leave rural populations there without land or jobs and make the continent's hunger problem more severe, an environmental think tank said on Tuesday. [More]

Commerce goes on at an evening market, thanks to a solar-lighting initiative that helps private companies do business in sub-Saharan Africa. | Photograph courtesy of Lighting Africa An innovative program aims to light up off-the-grid Africa by boosting supply and demand for portable solar lamps. FOR NEARLY 600 million people in sub-Saharan Africa, sundown means living, working, and studying by flickering candlelight or polluting kerosene lamps

Mark Calcavecchia surrendered a three-shot cushion to finish the third round of the Senior British Open on Saturday tied for the lead with fellow American Russ Cochran and South Africa's David Frost.

By Hereward Holland MANYANI, Kenya (Reuters) - Kenya's President Mwai Kibaki set fire to five tonnes of contraband ivory on Wednesday, a symbol of his and Africa's renewed commitment to fight poaching.

Mobius has created an SUV that's strong enough to brave Africa's deteriorating roads, but frills free, to make it more affordable. Imagine a place where 2 million kilometers of roads have become virtually non-functional after decades

KickStart has introduced an innovative layaway program to African farmers so they can invest in low-cost irrigation pumps. Microfinance , the Nobel Prize-winning initiative to turn aspiring third-world entrepreneurs into self-sustaining CEOs, has long been the only game in town when it comes to offering developing world entrepreneurs a viable and sustainable form of funding. But other financial instruments may work just as well--if not better--at supplying small farmers around the world with capital and a path out of poverty

Move over, Mary Kay. There's a new generation of multi-level marketing whizzes out there hawking to neighbors and friendsand experiencing hyper-fast revenue growth