Angela Merkel can and should offer Greece a fresh start because it is the right thing to do and accords with Germany’s experience and history, writes Jeffrey Sachs.

Two leading global philanthropists, Jeffrey D. Sachs and Bill Gates, debate the impact and progress of the Millennium Villages Project, which aims to improve lives in 20 African countries over the course of 10 years.

No country in modern times has staved off a default with a debt-to-GDP ratio of 150%. Could Greece service its debts over a long-term timeframe, or are we just deluding ourselves, asks Kyran Fitzgerald

Madonna arrived in Malawi today ahead of her week-long charity tour.

Electing a black man as president of the US would be a phenomenal change for the country and the world, former UN secretary general Kofi Annan said today.

The haunting memory of the Great Famine has shaped Ireland’s commitment to eradicating world hunger, former UN secretary general Kofi Annan said today.

Taoiseach Brian Cowen will travel to New York today to join other international leaders for a high-level United Nations meeting on world poverty.

Madonna and Gucci appealed to the minds and wallets of dozens of celebrities last night, raising US$3.7m (€2.4m) for efforts they said would help orphaned children with HIV/Aids in Malawi and poor children in other nations.

Ireland's historic experience of famine has inspired the country to help tackle global poverty, U2 frontman Bono said today.

THE head of an Irish charity has been appointed to a top level international committee to fight world hunger.

Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie are stepping up efforts to aid people in need in their son's home country of Cambodia.

Eliminating world hunger should be at the heart of Ireland’s foreign policy, one of the country’s leading NGO’s said today.

After a year of mounting criticism, Secretary-General Kofi Annan defended the United Nations yesterday and urged global leaders to restore the organisation’s credibility by adopting broad reforms needed for the world to act together to tackle poverty, terrorism and conflict.

They range from the Dalai Lama to the inventors of the Blackberry, from terrorist leader Abu Musab al-Zarqawi to Nobel laureate Nelson Mandela.

The Pentagon’s ‘attack dog’, Deputy Defence Secretary Paul Wolfowitz, was named by US President George Bush yesterday to take over as head of the World Bank.

MORE than 500 million people can be lifted out of abject poverty, 250 million people will no longer go to bed hungry and 30 million children can be saved if rich countries double development aid over the next 10 years, a new United Nations sponsored report said yesterday.