MUSIC: Our World theme This week on Our World: Hopeful test results for a new malaria vaccine ... the debate over genetically modified foods continues ... and the promise and peril of looking for new medicines in the oceans. BROOKE: They are delibera...
Time again for our Website of the Week, when we showcase interesting and innovative online destinations. This time it's an educational site where principles of physics are illustrated with interactive animated experiments that you can perform on your...
The euro fell against other currencies again on Friday a day after European Union leaders offered their support, but no tangible aid to debt racked Greece. The fall of the European currency was not the only bleak economic news hitting the EU. The 16-...
Coffee, computers and piston engines - could we imagine a world without them? These are intricate parts of every day life for most of us and the knowledge that led to them was either invented by or passed down through the ancient Muslim world. That's...
Recreating the escape route to northern states and Canada for fleeing slaves Dora Mekouar 12 February 2010 Follow the North Star participants learn about slavery at a re-enacted outdoor auction. History by immersion, is how the Conner Prairie interac...
Dr. Allan Schwartz, Bill Clinton's cardiologist speaks to the media outside the Milstein Building at Columbia Presbyterian Hospital in New York, 11 Feb 2010 Former President Bill Clinton's cardiologist says Mr. Clinton has been up and walking around...
Dr. Allan Schwartz, Bill Clinton's cardiologist speaks to the media outside the Milstein Building at Columbia Presbyterian Hospital, NY, 11 Feb 2010 Former U.S. President Bill Clinton arrived at his suburban New York home early Friday morning followi...
A US Army soldier gives a hand as women leave an aid distribution site carrying sacks of rice on their heads in Port-au-Prince, 01 Feb 2010 U.S. government agencies have spent hundreds of millions of dollars on rescue and relief efforts in Haiti, whi...
Experimental prairie farm designed to prove farmers can make a living off native grasses Johanna Sailor | Brookings, South Dakota 12 February 2010 Photo: Courtesy EcoSun Prairie Farm EcoSun Prairie Farm is intended to be a working model of agricultur...
Protesters surround Indian Environment Minister Jairam Ramesh (C) as he arrives at a public hearing on the genetically modified (GM) eggplant crop in Hyderabad, India on Jan. 31, 2010. Indian officials have announced they will ban commercial planting...
Protesters stop Indian Environment Minister Jairam Ramesh (C) in black and white dress, as he arrives to attend a public hearing on Bt brinjal, or genetically modified (GM) eggplant crop, at Central Research Institute for Dryland Agriculture in Hyder...
A woman writes on a blackboard as others sit during a literacy class held at the garbage dump of Ougadougou, 12 Oct 2009 Burkinab President Blaise Compaor has committed to making emergency obstetric care and access to family planning free in Burkina...
This will be an intensely competitive election with a lot at stake. - Former US President Jimmy Carter Former United States president Jimmy Carter has said he believes Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir is likely to face a second round run-off against...
Pro-government Iranian demonstrators hold posters of late revolutionary founder Ayatollah Khomeini (R) and supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, and anti-US placards during a rally commemorating the anniversary of the 1979 Islamic Revolution in Tehr...
UN political chief B. Lynn Pascoe speaks during a press conference at UNDP office building in Beijing, 12 Feb 2010 North Korea is not eager to return to six-party talks but has not rejected the idea, the U.N.'s top political official said on Friday f...
