U.N. Report Says Some 870 Million People In The World Suffer Hunger

Indian schoolchildren eat a free midday meal, provided on all working days at a government school on the outskirts of Jammu, India, Tuesday, Oct. 9. The United Nations now says its 2009 headline-grabbing announcement that 1 billion people in the world were hungry was off-target and that the number is actually more like 870 million. <AP/NEWSis=Channi Anand>

Malnourished Indian children eat a meal at the Apanalaya center, an organization working for the betterment of slum children, in Mumbai, India, Tuesday, Oct. 9, 2012. <AP/NEWSis=Rafiq Maqbool>

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