Activists Protest G8 Summit Several hundred Ethiopian activists came from across the United States to protest meetings involving Ethiopian Prime Minister Meles Zenawi, who has been in power since 1991. The United States is a major aid contributor to...
G8 Summit Ends with Consensus on Eurozone Reforms After two days of talks at the Camp David presidential retreat outside Washington, Obama said the eight leaders acknowledge that budget cuts alone will not restore Europes economy. And there is now an...
Egyptians Living Abroad Cast Votes for New President In the shade outside of her office in Washington, Nihal Elwan is about to do something shes never done before. Shes voting for the president of her homeland - Egypt. She has 13 candidates to choose...
Obama Announces Food Initiative for Africa With the leaders of several African countries watching, the president said Friday that governments, private industries and organizations will work together to improve Africa's food security. Today, I can ann...
Facebook's Stock Debuts on Wall Street The year's most hotly anticipated public offering kicked off at 11 a.m, Friday in New York, with founder Mark Zuckerberg ringing the Nasdaq opening bell remotely from Facebook headquarters in Menlo Park, Califor...
Egypt's Moussa Stresses Experience in Time of Flux Moussa's past is both a strength and a weakness. The former foreign minister and ex- Arab League chief says he is ready to lead the nation. The country is in a major crisis, noted Moussa. And a major...
Record Number of Africans Flee to Yemen A record number of African refugees and migrants have arrived in Yemen this year. Most are from Ethiopia. U.N. refugee agency spokesman Andrej Mahecic says more people are crossing the Red Sea and Gulf of Aden...
Korean Surveillance School Trains Citizen Snoops Ji Soo-hyun leads a double life. Three-months ago, the housewife began a career catching lawbreakers red handed. Ji, 54, says her specialty is going undercover at private tutoring schools. I pretend th...
Experts Troubled by New Dengue Outbreaks in Western Hemisphere Dengue had been eliminated in this hemisphere for quite a while but unfortunately it got reintroduced and has been generally growing since then, said Donald Shepherd. Donald Shepherd spok...
Montana Man's Not too Old to Clown Around Montana is probably best known for its cowboys and cattle, an image that dates back to the late 1800s when Texas longhorns were herded north across the Great Plains. Montana was not generally known for having...
Student Art Showcased Before Move Into Job Market In the days before graduation, Jessica Marx and Alexz Giacobbe are put the finishing touches on a project theyve been working on for months. Jessica, a photography major, made the hats for their fashi...
US Suspends All Economic Sanctions on Burma Secretary of State Hillary Clinton announced the suspension of bans on U.S. financial transactions, investments, and access to credit in a meeting with Burmese Foreign Minister U Wunna Maung Lwin. This is a...
South Sudan: SPLA Soldiers Hold Frontline Position The road to South Sudans front line with the north is a rugged one. Sudan Peoples Liberation Army soldiers armed with AK-47's and machine guns line the almost two-hour drive from Bentiu to the town o...
Lutheran Organization Seeks Help From Former Refugees Sovannarorth Sok came to America as a refugee. Today, she helps them, as a case worker for the Lutheran Immigration and Refugee Service. The service wants former refugees to give back by helping n...
Private Spacecraft Ready for Launch to ISS An animation shows what space station partner nations and SpaceX hope to see on launch day. The Falcon 9 rocket, carrying its Dragon capsule, will launch from Cape Canaveral in Florida. The cargo-carrying sp...
