By Lisa Schlein Geneva 16 April 2006 The UN refugee agency warns some 200,000 Sudanese refugees who fled to Chad from Darfur would have nowhere to go were they to be expelled from the country. A UNHCR...
By Anjana Pasricha New Delhi 16 April 2006 Dance bar girls listen to the speakers during a demonstration against the government decision to ban dance bars in Bombay (File photo - May 3, 2005) An India...
By Robert Berger Jerusalem 16 April 2006 Christian worshippers pray on the stone that Jesus Christ was believed to have been washed on after his crucifixion, during the Good Friday procession at the C...
By Alan Silverman Hollywood 16 April 2006 A new film exposes an icon of 1950's pop culture in the United States: a pin-up model whose provocative photographs, though tame by today's standards, created...
By Mary Morningstar Washington 16 April 2006 Country star Tim McGraw has a busy year planned. He recently appeared in his third network television special, and is about to launch a major concert tour...
By Doug Levine Washington 16 April 2006 Jazz Appreciation Month got underway with the unveiling of donated items from the families of two jazz legends and a famous jazz photographer to the Smithsonian...
By Sabina Castelfranco Rome 14 April 2006 Pope Benedict in Good Friday procession in Rome For the first time, Pope Benedict led the traditional Way of the Cross procession in Rome's ancient Coliseum....
By Scott Stearns White House 14 April 2006 President Bush is backing his defense secretary, amid mounting criticism from retired generals calling for the secretary to resign. Donald Rumsfeld It has be...
By Lisa Bryant Paris 14 April 2006 Students shout slogans as they block traffic on the Canebiere avenue, in front of the chamber of commerce, in Marseille, April 6, 2006 After weeks of demonstrations,...
By Gilbert da Costa Abuja 14 April 2006 Security forces in Nigeria are battling to control three days of clashes in the central Plateau State, which have left at least 25 people dead. Hundreds of peop...
By Lisa Schlein Geneva 14 April 2006 Goz-Amer camp, one of 12 UNHRC-run camps in eastern Chad The United Nations refugee agency says it is alarmed over the possible impact of the violence in Chad on h...
By Joe Bavier Abidjan 14 April 2006 Chad's President Idriss Deby waves to supporters in the capital N'djamena Chad's president has claimed a victory over attacking rebels, after intense fighting that...
By Peter Fedynsky Washington, DC 14 April 2006 watch Darfur report The Darfur region of Sudan is in the midst of genocide. Diplomats have so far failed to stop the tragedy, citing that country's compl...
By Nina-Maria Potts Paris, France 14 April 2006 watch French Riots report Following the rioting by disadvantaged young people in France last fall, the French government tried to institute a law making...
By Patricia Nunan New Delhi 14 April 2006 Nepal's opposition parties have rejected a call by King Gyanendra to hold talks, because, they say, he must first restore democratic freedoms. The king made h...
