DUBLIN, Ireland -- Rarely has a ship been bailed out so often before leaving port. Now, after three years and many millions, the Jeanie Johnston is finally ready to set sail to the New World this ...

Although scientists have known that a funguslike organism caused the potato blight that triggered the Great Famine in Ireland in the 1840s, they... An international group of plant pathologists has ...

In the summer of 1985, images of emaciated children in Ethiopia shocked the world and prompted one of the biggest charity concerts ever: Live Aid. Megastars like Paul McCartney, Lionel Richie, Madonna ...

A panel of food security experts said the famine could spread to more of the enclave within weeks. By Ephrat Livni U.N.-backed food security experts determined on Friday that Gaza City and the ...

Ireland's Taoiseach Micheál Martin has responded this morning, Friday, August 22, after the Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC) confirmed there is a famine in the Gaza Governorate.

Famine was officially declared on Friday in part of northern Gaza, including Gaza City, by the world's leading authority on hunger as Israel vowed to raze the area if Hamas doesn't agree to its terms.