By Jim Bertel Washington, DC 20 February 2007 New Orleans Mardi Gras mask The Mardi Gras celebration in New Orleans comes to an end today. And while the crowds are larger than last year, this year's celebration was still considerably smaller than be...
By George Dwyer Washington 20 February 2007 watch Peacemaker Video Game Peacemaker is a game-simulation for Middle East peace A new video game was released in Washington, D.C. earlier this month. It challenges users to participate in creating soluti...
By Nico Colombant Dakar 20 February 2007 Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf attends opening session of ECOWAS summit, in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso, 19 Jan 2007 The leaders of Liberia and Sierra Leone met in Guinea with embattled President Lansa...
By Steve Mort Miami, Florida 20 February 2007 watch Cuban Investment Fund With President Fidel Castro in declining health, a growing number of companies in the United States are making plans to do business in Cuba. They are doing so based on reports...
By Sean Maroney Washington 20 February 2007 watch Helicopters in Iraq report Inside US military helicopter In the face of ongoing violence, U.S. and Iraqi troops are stepping up the security crackdown in Baghdad and its surrounding suburbs. But as V...
By Ron Corben Bangkok 20 February 2007 A Karen boy, 6, allegedly shot in the arm by Burma military, during a massacre of villagers (File) A U.S. human rights and environmental group accuses Burma's military government of forcing ethnic Karen out of t...
By Anjana Pasricha New Delhi 20 February 2007 Pakistani Foreign Minister Khursheed Kasuri has arrived in the Indian capital for talks as both countries vow not to let terrorist attacks undermine an ongoing peace process.Anjana Pasricha reports for VO...
By Douglas Bakshian Jolo 20 February 2007 A special operations platoon of the Philippine Marine Battalion Landing Team conduct a military exercise in Jolo, 05 Feb 2007 The Philippines has recently been on the front line in the war on terror, taking o...
By Douglas Bakshian Jolo, Philippines 20 February 2007 Winning without fighting is not a term you often hear in the war on terror. But U.S. soldiers, along with their Philippine counterparts, are putting this philosophy to work on the remote island...
By Challiss McDonough Cairo 20 February 2007 Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad during a public gathering, 20 Feb 2007 The president of Iran says he is willing to hold talks with the West over his controversial nuclear program. But he says he will...
By Barry Newhouse Sheikhan, Iraq 19 February 2007 Iraq's northern Kurdistan region has been relatively free of the sectarian fighting that has crippled the rest of the country, but a rare attack by Sunni Kurds on a religious group called the has loca...
By Carolyn Weaver New York City 19 February 2007 watch Ukrainian Art report Some of modern art's great innovators, including Kazimir Malevich, Alexander Archipenko and Alexander Rodchenko, are usually described as Russian artists. But these painters...
By Melinda Smith Washington, D.C. 19 February 2007 watch Norovirus report It can be called stomach flu, food poisoning or acute gastroenteritis. Medical experts call it the Norovirus, and this family of viruses causes diarrhea, nausea, vomiting and...
By Ade Astuti Nia Sutadi Bethesda, Maryland 19 February 2007 watch Edible report On special occasions people in the U.S. often show their love with flowers. But these days there is another choice -- instead of giving a bouquet of flowers many are se...
By Tom Rivers London 19 February 2007 Suleymaniye mosque, Istanbul, left, and National Cathedral, Washington, D.C. A large-scale survey commissioned by the BBC finds that, despite current global tensions, the majority of people around the world rejec...
