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MDC activist Sam Chakaipa returns to his village in rural Zimbabwe to find his friends and neighbours starving to death.

Reduced to panning gold powder from the rivers to exchange for food at an ex…

By William J. Broad

For the clearest picture of what is happening at Japan’s Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, talk to scientists thousands of miles away.

Thanks to the unfamiliar but sophi…

By Jeffery Sparshott

The U.S. is applying money-laundering rules to “virtual currencies,” amid growing concern that new forms of cash bought on the Internet are being used to fund illicit activitie…