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It is becoming ever more clear that the reigning economic and political structures of the world today are dangerously dismal failures. We are presently watching the alarming spectacle of the largest and most severe economic collapse in human history. The euro system is unquestionably extinct, and there is a high likelihood that the combined nations of the trans-Atlantic system—including the United States—will be destroyed along with it.

WFP Executive Director Josette Sheeran

A Jalalabad woman receives her first food voucher from WFP

A Kemp's ridley sea turtle like this one traveled 4,600 miles across the Atlantic ocean in 2008. After being rehabilitated in Portugal, it is being reintroduced into its native Gulf of Mexico waters on Tuesday.

2011 was another year of natural disasters

The Mekong Delta is Vietnam's breadbasket

This year has something unpleasant in common with the years 1979 and 1986. In 1979, a nuclear reactor at Three Mile Island in Pennsylvania melted down. In 1986, the Soviet reactor at Chernobyl blew up and burned.

Frankincense comes from the Boswellia sacra tree, which grows mainly in the Horn of Africa. The number of trees that produce the fragrant resin could decline by 90 percent in the next 50 years.

Small farmers in developing countries cannot compete with subsidised big farmers in developed countries

Several UN agencies have boosted their relief efforts in the Philippines which was ravaged by a tropical storm known locally as Sendong.