Photos Offer Insight into Artist Frida Kahlo Frida Kahlo, who died in 1954, is one of Mexico's best-known artists. She was the subject of the 2002 movie Frida starring Salma Hayek. The 240 photos in the new exhibit at Artisphere in Arlington, Virgini...
Emergency Aid Being Sent to Stranded Chadians Emergency aid is being sent this week to about one thousand people mostly children stranded in a remote area of Chad. The International Organization for Migration says the Chadians fled violence in neighb...
Emergency Aid Being Sent to Stranded Chadians Emergency aid is being sent this week to about one thousand people mostly children stranded in a remote area of Chad. The International Organization for Migration says the Chadians fled violence in neighb...
Koreans, North and South, Train Cambodian Olympic Hopefuls Chov Sotheara is one of only a few Cambodian athletes who could qualify for the London Olympics. Driven to win in a sport dominated by men, she says her strict North Korean coach, Pak So Nam,...
Learning About Farm Animals at Houston Livestock Show This is where cows get all prettied up for judging or auction. For families from farms and ranches, being around these animals is part of everyday life. But they are in the minority, says the Hous...
Surviving New York Subway Construction Francisco Quijada first looked out of the window of his interior design store more than 45 years ago and he says the view was as bright as his future. No more. I gave up cleaning them, because it cost me money a...
Hydroponic Farmer Produces Year-Round Harvest Mary Ellen Taylor sells her produce at weekend farmers markets near Washington, D.C. The heads of lettuce, still attached to their roots, are popular and she has many repeat customers. The lettuce just ta...
US State Might Sell Naming Rights for Roads All but the tiniest of roads have to have names so they can be located on a map, and so people can ask directions to them. Bridges less so, but Americans name a lot of them, too. Very often these arteries c...
Morganfield Channels Bluesman Dad on 'Son Of The Seventh Son' Muddy Waters or Mud Morganfield? Its almost impossible to tell. Of course, nothing would please Mud more than hearing people say he sounds just like his late father Muddy Waters on the tra...
Man Follows Upstream Dream in 'Salmon Fishing in The Yemen' Dr. Alfred Jones knows pretty much all there is to know about salmon. So when a wealthy sheikh asks him to create fishing streams in the desert, he is, to put it mildly, skeptical. SHEIKH Yo...
'Test Tube Burger Provides Meatless Alternative Paying $330,000 for a hamburger might seem like a lot, but that's what it cost for scientists in the Netherlands to prove it's possible to make a meat-like pattie from a cluster of muscle cells. At the...
Syrian Activists: Women, Children Massacred in Homs Activists say the bodies of at least 45 women and children have been discovered in the central city that has been a flashpoint for an anti-government uprising and retaliatory attacks and shelling by...
US Civil Rights Organization Promotes Minority Voting Not on our watch are we going to be pushed away from the decision-making table when it comes to school and education, jobs and economic policy in this country, said National Urban League President...
Saudi Women Slowly Advance Cultural Change This year something new has appeared on the streets of Saudi cities, female shop assistants. For now, they're only found in lingerie stores. King Abdullah signed a decree to change the law after years of pro...
Cyberspace Pierces Putin's Mystique Vladimir Putin is not on trial. It is an anti-Putin attack video prepared days before Russia's presidential election. Watched by more than three-million people, this 50-second fake news clip shows how Russia's poli...
