Bryan Wilson works to cut pollution from cookstoves, two-stroke engines, diesel Shelley Schlender | Fort Collins, Colorado 10 May 2010 Engineer Bryan Willson is developing cleaner-running, more energy-efficient products for people in the developing w...
If you're a home gardener you may soon find that the pots you buy flowers and plants in are made from chicken feathers. Yes, tons of feathers that go to waste every year can now be transformed into plastics. Two Washington-area scientists are using f...
In Botswana, community-based home care is the preferred method of assisting people living with HIV/AIDS. However, a study shows many of the caregivers are suffering economically and emotionally as a result. Botswana has a small population, about two...
Britain's Liberal Democrats party leader Nick Clegg talks to the media as he leaves his house in London, 10 May 2010 Four days have passed since Britons went to the polls, but the shape of the country's future government is unclear. Last week's gener...
British Prime Minister Gordon Brown says he will resign by September. Observers say the decision eases the way for his Labor Party to stay in power in a possible coalition government, following last week's indecisive election. No party won a majority...
An Iraqi man walks through rubble at the site of a bombing that targeted police in Fallujah, west of Baghdad, Iraq, 10 May 2010 A wave of attacks across Iraq killed more than people Monday, and wounded about 300 others. The violence began before dawn...
Despite long delays caused by new automated voting machines, millions of Filipinos have headed to the polls to choose a new president. Most voters set out early Monday to avoid the midday sun and temperatures topping 38 degrees to vote in an election...
As efforts to try to cap the oil well that has poured millions of gallons of crude into the Gulf of Mexico faltered Saturday, we took a tour of the vast ecosystem along Louisiana coast for a first hand look at what is at stake. The Louisiana coastlin...
Ayesha Tanzeem | New York City 08 May 2010 There were tough questions and protesters outside Goldman Sachs' annual shareholder meeting, this week. But as the chief executive of the giant Wall Street firm promised it would review its own business prac...
Fishing is going to go on whether it be on the west side of the river or the east side of the river As British Petroleum continues to try to cap its leaking oil well in the Gulf of Mexico, U.S. officials have banned fishing from the Mississippi River...
Angry demonstrations over Arizona's new immigration law have been sweeping across the United States A coalition of U.S. Civil Rights and Labor organizations say they intent to boycott major events in the Southwestern state of Arizona. This developmen...
U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder says Faisal Shahzad, the Pakistani-American man accused of attempting to bomb Times Square, is providing useful information to investigators, and authorities are pursuing new leads in the case. Holder said Thursday i...
Britain's Liberal Democrats party leader Nick Clegg as he arrives at the Local Government Offices in London, 08 May 2010 Members of Britain's third party - the center-left Liberal Democrats - met privately Saturday as they considered a power-sharing...
The Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court said that his team would build their case independently in order to present impartial evidence to judges at The Hague. Michael Onyiego | Nairobi 08 May 2010 International Criminal Court Prosecutor Lu...
President Goodluck Jonathan is from southern Nigeria and is expected to nominate a northern politician to maintain the country's regional balance of power. Scott Stearns | Abuja 08 May 2010 Nigeria's acting President Goodluck Jonathan (R) takes the o...