Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton after speaking at the Presidential Summit on Entrepreneurship in Washington, 27 Apr 2010 Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has outlined several new initiatives to empower women around the world, through tech...
From left: European Central Bank President Jean-Claude Trichet, the International Monetary Fund head Dominique Strauss-Kahn and German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble, following a meeting with German lawmakers in Berlin, 28 April 2010 U.S. stock...
Robert Raffaele 28 April 2010 From left: European Central Bank President Jean-Claude Trichet, the International Monetary Fund head Dominique Strauss-Kahn and German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble, following a meeting with German lawmakers in Ber...
New study looks at cardiovascular risk by ethnicity Naomi Seck | Washington, DC 28 April 2010 Researchers studied the prevalence of heart disease and stroke in four ethnic groups: whites, Chinese, South Asians and blacks all living in Ontario provinc...
Mariama Diallo 28 April 2010 As South Africa prepares to host the first World Cup ever on the African continent, a group of South African women over 50 are playing in a local tournament, hoping to raise funds for an upcoming tournament in America - t...
Cathy Majtenyi | Nairobi 28 April 2010 In Kenya, small-scale farmers are particularly vulnerable to the vagaries of weather, often losing their entire investment when droughts or floods destroy their crops. Crop insurance is usually too costly for su...
Women miners search for diamonds in eastern Zimbabwe's lucrative Marange diamond fields. [Please note that this story has been superseded by later information from Zimbabwe and a portion of it is no longer completely accurate. The Harare Supreme Cour...
The Himalayan nation of Bhutan prepares for the 16th summit-level meeting of the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC) in Thimphu, 24 Apr 2010 Government officials from India and Pakistan confirm their respective prime ministers wi...
Jason Eady Singer-songwriter Jason Eady may call Texas home these days, but he was born in the deep south of the U.S., in the state of Mississippi. Growing up there, he was exposed to a variety of styles of music, including blues, country and gospel....
John Park, manager of the Astro Embroidery company in Port au Prince, Haiti Prior to the January earthquake that devastated Haiti, textile manufacturing accounted for three-quarters of the country's export earnings. The sector employed more than 25,0...
Farmers raising alpacas for their fleece are a growing segment of the U.S. agriculture industry Erika Celeste | Ft. Wayne, Indiana 27 April 2010 Unlike in South America, North American alpacas are not raised for meat, but for their valuable fleece. R...
Case questions whether environmental law has gone too far Steve Baragona | Washington, DC 27 April 2010 The US Supreme Court will hear arguments involving a genetically modified variety of alfalfa designed to grow even when farmers spray it with a ch...
Family members hold picture of miners killed in US mining explosion at congressional hearing, 27 Apr 2010 The U.S. government is vowing to step up mine safety enforcement in the wake of the worst U.S. coal mine disaster in a generation. The Senate co...
David Axe | Bagram, Afghanistan 27 April 2010 US Air Force crews prepare their helicopters at Bagram Air Base Wounded NATO and U.S. troops in Afghanistan often depend on helicopter medical evacuation teams to stay alive. The medevac teams are trained...
Joe DeCapua 27 April 2010 Sub-Saharan Africas maternal and child mortality rate remains high despite an overall worldwide reduction, according to The Lancet medical journal. About 350,000 women die annually from child-birth related accidents. As a re...
