In a hospital in Karbala, in southern Iraq, a 10-year-old boy is being treated for chronic malnutrition. He is 22 pounds, a typical weight for a 1-year-old child. The child-mortality rate is higher in southern Iraq than elsewhere in the country. Read the full story on life inside Saddam's Iraq.
This winter, U.S. News & World Report photographer Jim Lo Scalzo drove the length of the U.S.-Mexican border from El Paso, Texas, to San Diego, Calif.
(3/10/06)
Yemen, an impoverished Muslim nation on the Arabian Peninsula, became a surprising U.S. ally in the wake of September 11. A look at the country and its people
(3/3/06)
