Leaders Threaten Euro 2012 Boycott Over Alleged Ukraine Abuses May Day brought communist demonstrators onto the streets Tuesday in Kiev - as news of the threatened Euro 2012 boycott spread. Marchers voiced their support for Yulia Tymoshenko and for t...
Burma-China Pipelines Bring Benefits, Complaints At Mandalay Hills Su Taung Pyai Pagoda a Chinese visitor makes a ritual cleansing prayer. China is Burmas biggest investor and here in the countrys second largest city residents say an influx of Chines...
G8 Leaders Called on to Address Hunger, Poverty Humanitarian groups say they want G8 leaders to make food security and poverty top priorities at their upcoming summit. The leaders gather later this month at Camp David in Maryland. In 2009, at the LAq...
AIDS Funding Boosts Overall Healthcare The battle against HIV/AIDS has received more donor funding than most other diseases combined. Many tens of billions of dollars has been spent in the more than 30 years of the epidemic. The amount of funding has...
Australian Musical Family Act The McClymonts Set Sights on US The McClymont sisters are Australias latest musical export. Sam says their three-part harmonies and soaring vocals have developed over a lifetime of performing together. We were singing si...
Miro's Political Side on Display This is the kind of fantasy painting that Miro is known for. But for the first time, a museum in the United States is showing what's less known about Miro, that many of his paintings were a response to history - espec...
Bus Travel In Nation's Capital Inspires Song Songwriters find inspiration in different - and sometimes unusual - places. Ren Moffatt, a Washington D.C. singer and songwriter, found it in the bus he travels to work on every day. The title of Ren Moffa...
C Isn't Average in All Schools Any More Theres an old, but often-played, song by the late Sam Cooke whose lyrics go, in part: Now I don't claim to be an A student But I'm trying to be. And so are millions of other American children each school term....
US Nuns Stunned, Angered by Vatican Reprimand After a night on the street, dozens of homeless men and women file into a shelter in the Washington suburb of Silver Spring. A walk down the hall takes them to the cafeteria, where they get a hot breakfas...
Report: Funding Global Health Helps US Economy Grow This project to develop a vaccine against tuberculosis is just one example of the kind of work the U.S government has been supporting. Overall, in fact, the United States contributed $12.7 billion t...
Farming by GPS Saves Money, Environment Mixing tradition with technology On a weedy patch of land an hour and half from Washington, D.C., farmer Brad Eustace is tilling razor-straight lines with a GPS-guided tractor. With the computer in control, he...
Artists Preview London Cultural Olympiad in New York Participating artists and journalists gathered Wednesday at New Yorks Gramercy Park Hotel to talk about the event. Festival director Ruth Mackenzie said 25,000 artists, representing all 204 countri...
Lurrie Bell's Dream Comes True With 'The Devil Aint Got No Music' Bells introduction to music came from his father, the late harmonica great Carey Bell. As the son of one of Chicagos most famous musicians, Bell says he never missed an opportunity to...
Nigerian Midwives Improve Rural Healthcare Maternal healthcare is improving in rural Nigeria thanks to a program to expand the use of midwives. The program could serve as a model for other developing countries. Its called the Midwife Service Scheme a...
Syrian Opposition Needs Unity But Continues to Splinter Syrian forces continue to shell opposition strongholds. The opposition refuses to back down. And civilians continue to bear the brunt of the violence. But in the far calmer surroundings of Paris...
