Indian Girls Rise Up Against Child Marriage Bitika Das is concentrating on her school work. The 16-year-old girl from a small village in West Bengal state knows this opportunity to study is one that was nearly lost two years ago when her parents arra...
Aid Workers Struggle to Cope with Syrian Refugee Influx Early afternoon at the Bab al-Salama Camp on the Syrian side of the Turkish border. Aid workers are distributing food to people waiting to become refugees in Turkey. The Turkish government is al...
Warmer Oceans Could Mean Smaller Fish Warmer oceans William DAndrea studies how Earths climate changes over time. In an article just published in the journal Geology, the associate professor at Columbia Universitys Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory ch...
Inventor Is Greatest Job Creator in US History The outcome of next months U.S. presidential election may turn on one little word: jobs. President Obama and challenger Mitt Romney are offering competing recipes for economic growth. But we can assure y...
Jewish Temple Encourages Worship Through The Arts Located in the Beverly Hills neighborhood of Los Angeles, one synagogue is also a theater where people come for an experience unlike traditional Jewish services. David Baron is the founding rabbi of t...
Syria's Internally Displaced On the Rise Hundreds of thousands of Syrians have fled their nation's civil war and their numbers keep growing. Many are in the camps of neighboring countries. But not all Syrians seeking safety are able or willing to lea...
Malian Militias Train to Retake the North There's a new generation of the Ganda Koy. Its leaders revived the militia in April shortly after armed groups seized Malis three northern regions. Volunteers are getting a crash course in being soldiers. Com...
'Haunted Houses' Attract Big Crowds on Halloween There is something in human psychology that makes people enjoy being scared. During Halloween season for the past 26 years, thrill seekers in Houston have come to Screamworld and paid good money to be...
Global Financial Leaders Ponder Jobs, Growth and Politics Many Europeans have been angered by government efforts to slash pensions and salaries, while raising taxes in an effort to balance battered budgets. Public anger is one of many things limiting...
Meat Was Main Dish for Early Humans Modern-day humans eat a lot of meat. Some nutritionists say perhaps too much. But fossils in Tanzania indicate that early humans considered meat a dietary staple much earlier than first thought. Whats more, meat ma...
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez Wins Re-Election Bid National Electoral Council President Tibisay Lucena announced late Sunday that President Chavez won a third six-year term of office. She said that candidate Hugo Rafael Chavez Frias won 54.52 perc...
Venezuelan Voters Wait in Long Lines for Presidential Election In the Caracas neighborhood of Catia, a traditional stronghold for President Hugo Chavez, voters like Sarkes de a Hache have come out in force to vote for the president. Because he is doi...
Political Movies Aim to Influence Voters Dinesh D'Souza's film Obama's America 2016 contends that the U.S. president has a hidden agenda on religion, war and the economy. Since its premiere, the documentary has raked in over $30 million, making it am...
Khan Leads Drone Protest in Taliban Territory Pakistan's opposition politician Imran Khan on Saturday led a convoy of some 500 vehicles including some 30 U.S. activists in an unprecedented march toward Taliban territory to protest CIA-led drone strik...
Syrian Refugee Camps in Turkey Strained, Over Crowded Bab al-Salama Camp on Syria's border with Turkey. In the past month the number of Syrians waiting to cross into Turkey here has grown from a few hundred people to more than 6,000. The Turkish gove...
