BUCHAREST, Romania -- Spania Bancuta has been alive for three months, and alone almost as long -- ever since her mother dropped her off at a children's hospital in Bucharest and never came back. But ...

Not long ago, she admits, Veronica E. Federiconi wouldn't have been able to locate Romania on a map. Her strongest impression of the Eastern European country, at that time, came from television ...

A local drive to collect shoes and socks for children in Romania has a goal: 4,000 pairs of new shoes donated by generous Quad-City residents. Another Child Foundation, based in Princeton, Illinois, ...

BALACIU, Romania (Reuters) - Desperate parents are fleeing the poverty of Romania's countryside in search of work elsewhere in the European Union, leaving their children behind to be cared for by ...