By Amanda Cassandra New York 31 July 2006 The music of Bach and Beethoven is heard all over the world, often in elegant and historical buildings. But in New York, classical music fans can listen in an unconventional music venue on the East River. Ba...
By Paula Wolfson White House 31 July 2006 President Bush says America mourns the loss of life in the Lebanese village of Qana. The president says his goal is a sustained peace in the region. President Bush says the US looking for sustained peace in...
By Jim Bertel Washington, D.C. 31 July 2006 watch Diplomacy report U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice is on her way home to Washington today Monday optimistic that a comprehensive settlement to the Middle East crisis can be reached in the comi...
By Nico Colombant Kinshasa 30 July 2006 Vote counting has started in the war-torn Democratic Republic of Congo amid renewed tension over the outcome in the country's first open election in over 40 years. There was some rioting in a mining town, caus...
By Sonja Pace Jerusalem 30 July 2006 Lebanese hold a candlelit vigil in memory of at least 56 people - more than half of then children - who were killed Sunday in an Israeli airstrike that crushed a building in the southern Lebanese village of Qana...
By Challiss McDonough Qana, Lebanon 30 July 2006 Among others, the body of a child recovered under the rubble of a demolished building that was struck by Israeli war plane missiles at the village of Qana is placed in an ambulance, July 30, 2006 An I...
By Paula Wolfson Washington 30 July 2006 The U.N. Security Council was called into emergency session, following the Israeli bombing of the Lebanese village of Qana that killed dozens of civilians. It was the bloodiest incident in the almost three-we...
By Gilbert da Costa Abuja 30 July 2006 Militant patrols creeks of the Niger Delta area of Nigeria (File photo) Militants who invaded an oil flow station in Southern Nigeria early last week are still holding oil workers and guards captive. The armed...
By Nico Colombant Kinshasa 30 July 2006 Voters waiting in line for historic poll Congolese are voting in their first open election in more than 40 years, in hopes of putting an end to years of misrule, corruption, conflict, and poverty. --------- Un...
By Anjana Pasricha New Delhi 30 July 2006 Indian Commerce and Industry Minister Kamal Nath speaks during a press conference in New Delhi, July 25, 2006 India says it will concentrate on bilateral and regional trade agreements following the collapse...
By Kurt Achin Seoul 30 July 2006 In the struggle for pop music fame, it helps to have a unique selling point, especially in a saturated media market like South Korea's. An all-girl group of musical hopefuls in Seoul like to teach the world to sing -...
By Efam Dovi Accra 29 July 2006 Health officials from six African countries meeting in Accra have resolved to work together to improve health screening during pregnancy to control and prevent the spread of malaria and transmission of HIV from mother...
By Challiss McDonough Tyre, Lebanon 29 July 2006 The three hospitals in the southern Lebanese city of Tyre on Saturday held their second mass burial since the start of the conflict between Israel and Hezbollah militants in Lebanon. Thirty coffins we...
By Sonja Pace Jerusalem 29 July 2006 Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice arrived back in Israel Saturday for another round of diplomacy to end more than two weeks of relentless fighting between Israel and Hezbollah militants in Lebanon. ---------- I...
By Margaret Besheer Irbil, Iraq 29 July 2006 In the Kurdish region of northern Iraq, which has seen little of the sectarian violence plaguing much of the rest of the country, doctors say they treat more people burned in household incidents than inju...
