Carolina Hernandez Cruz doesn't go to school anymore. She's suffering post-traumatic stress after losing her father and two sisters in a landslide during last year's flooding in Southeast Mexico, one of the worst disasters in the nation's history.

Seventh-day Adventists are lobbying to snuff out smoking in public places throughout the Caribbean islands.

A Seventh-day Adventist missionary family survived a plane crash yesterday, emerging from the wreckage just moments before it exploded.

Linking poverty to economically fettered women, world faith, aid agency and government representatives said April 13 that it's no coincidence an estimated 70 percent of the 1.2 billion people who subsist on just US$1 a day are women and girls.

The UN urges Burma to reconsider allowing in aid teams, as a referendum goes ahead despite the emergency.

Lebanon's government says the seizure of most of western Beirut by Shia group Hezbollah is "a bloody coup".

Passengers are isolated on a train in Canada, after one dies and several others experience flu-like symptoms.

Former Democratic US presidential hopeful John Edwards says Barack Obama is now his party's likely nominee.