The U.N. is voicing alarm over the spread of HIV in Egypt, where the number of new cases is growing by up to 40 percent a year, and where efforts to combat the epidemic are hampered by social stigma and a lack of funding to address the crisis

Iran is challenging taboos to face a rising number HIV infections from sex, especially among its youth

An international aid group says it has not been able to deliver live-saving medical and humanitarian assistance to the people in dire need in Yemen's capital

An international aid group says one million people across three Yemeni cities are at risk of a renewed cholera outbreak and other water-borne diseases following the closing of airports and sea ports by a Saudi-led coalition fighting Yemen's Shiite rebels

Pakistani police say they arrested a woman for allegedly plotting with her newly married niece to poison the young woman's husband with tainted milk

Air pollution in India's capital has hit hazardous levels, prompting local officials to ask that schools shut down and a half marathon scheduled later in November be called off.

Women in Indian-controlled Kashmir say bandits have attacked them and chopped off their hair, attacks that are spreading fear in the heavily militarized region

Environmental pollutants are killing at least 9 million people and costing the world $4.6 trillion a year, a toll exceeding that of war, smoking, hunger or natural disasters