Phetsile Ndwandwe, short, skinny and 23 years old, accepts an apple from a development worker and nibbles at it, stripping the peel with her teeth before handing the fruit to Siphokazi, her baby daughter.

The U.S. is turning down a Guantanamo prisoner’s offer to end his long hunger strike in exchange for better conditions at the American prison in Cuba.

An office party goes on without her, across town in an affluent world vastly different from the one where Mariana Chilton now finds herself. Her husband’s tried calling. Twice.

“The Soloist,” the upcoming movie about a cellist who became homeless, has struck a chord with American orchestras. They are mobilizing to help feed the hungry.

A Connecticut judge is hearing arguments on whether state prison officials can force-feed an inmate on a hunger strike.

The United Nations urged donors Monday to release quickly billions of dollars in aid pledged at a food crisis summit last year after riots in developing countries over soaring prices.

Dozens of Guantanamo Bay prisoners were still on hunger strike Friday despite President Barack Obama’s order to close the prison.

The U.N. World Food Program says more than 150,000 people are still surviving on donated food in the flood-battered city of Gonaives.

Ten million people risk going hungry in Kenya after harvests failed because of drought, the government said Friday.

The long-running hunger strike at Guantanamo Bay has grown to 30 prisoners, the highest number in months.