11.   The U.N. food agency will launch its world food security program with a meeting in Ethiopia to search for ways to help the country avoid a possible famine.

12.   They safeguarded deliveries of aid to Somalis, who faced possible famine in a vicious civil war between feuding clans.

13.   U.N. officials have warned of possible famine in the isolated communist state, where floods in the last two summers have aggravated a food shortage.

14.   Nepal on Friday started ringing alarm bells over a possible famine in the country after poor rains cut rice production.