PORT-AU-PRINCE — Where billions of dollars in aid went following the 7.0-magnitude earthquake that left 220,000 people dead — and at least 1.6 million more homeless — remains a confounding mystery. full story
GENEVA — Belarus needed help. It had just confirmed a study that found 35 percent of all TB cases in the capital of Minsk were multi-drug resistant TB (MDR-TB) — the highest rate in the world ever recorded for the deadly disease, which takes up to two years to treat and is cured in Western Europe only one third of the time. full story
BELGRADE — LGBT Serbians and their allies report that the country’s society is rabidly intolerant of sexual minorities, painting homosexuality as a Western import bent on destroying the nation and its Christian religion. full story