Number of hungry worldwide tops 1 billion
Food and Agriculture Organization Director-General Jacques Diouf talks to journalists during a press conference in Rome, Friday, June 19, 2009. (AP)
June 19, ROME (AP) -- One in six people in the world - or more than 1 billion - is now hungry, a historic high due largely to the global economic crisis and stubbornly high food prices, a U.N. agency said Friday. . . continue reading.
