Explorers Hope They Are Close to Solving Amelia Earhart Mystery Earhart was a pioneering American aviator in the early 20th century. The first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean, she became a national celebrity. In July of 1937, she and navi...
Plan Hatched to Lure Swallows Back to Capistrano The cliff swallows' long-time roost at Mission San Juan Capistrano is celebrated every March with a parade, and 70 years ago, was immortalized through a song, When the Swallows Come Back to Capistrano,...
Artist Carves 1,600 Eggshells a Year Carving and sculpting eggshells, with a dental drill and sanding disk, is not a job for the heavy handed. For Tina Kannapel, it's a passion. Because an egg is a continuous arch, it has a lot of natural strength, s...
Analysts: In Syria, Few Arab Spring Lessons Apply In the past year and a half, uprisings across the Arab world have toppled four men whose rule had lasted decades. Tunisia's Zine el Abidine Ben Ali fled into exile in Saudi Arabia. Libya's Moammar Gad...
Hispanic Voters Could Play Key Role in US Election Luis Torres and Willie Fernandez run a Houston company that does completion work on construction projects. But when it comes to politics, they differ, with Fernandez being more critical of President...
Office Cubicle Dwellers Build 'Walls' for Privacy Office mazes in which just about everybody below the rank of vice president works in large open spaces, divided by partitions into cubicles, are the standard workplace setting for millions of American...
Greeks Divided as Election Stalemate Looms Again Industrial disputes do not get much worse than this. The workers at the Hellenic Halyvourgia steel plant have been on strike for more than 200 days. Yorgos Sifonios is president of the workers union. H...
Marula Oil to Fight Poverty in Swaziland They say money does not grow on trees, but for Sibongile Ndzinisa, it kind of does. In her backyard, the fallen fruits from her marula tree are her new source of income. She supplies the local factory which ma...
Remembering Remote Control Inventor Gene Polley Whenever someone leaves the earth having changed it, we like to make note of it. Not just the famous or notorious, but also obscure people who dreamed up something memorable or useful in our everyday li...
Britain's Queen Joins Giant Flotilla for Jubilee Celebration A specially outfitted ship carried the 86-year-old queen and her family along the River Thames at the head of a 1,000-boat parade. Rain and cold kept many people away, but tens of thousands...
Nigeria's Religious Leaders Work to Stop Violence Kaduna, much like the Nigerian state itself, is divided into a mainly Muslim north and a predominantly Christian south. In April 2011, post-election riots in Kaduna state descended into religious viol...
Mubarak Verdict Resounds Through Divided Egypt The crowd outside the courthouse gathered around any screen they could find to see the historic moment unfold. Firstly, Mohammed Hosni al-Sayyid Mubarak is sentenced to life in prison for his role in the...
Olympics Blamed for Stoking Debt Crisis in Greece Eight years on from 2004, Athens Olympic Park is abandoned, overgrown, closed to the public. The fencing arena is now a rusting warehouse. The canoe slalom course was built at a cost of millions of do...
Airlift Returns S. Sudanese Refugees Home An airlift is under way to bring more than 12,000 South Sudanese citizens home from neighboring Sudan. The returnees were blocked from going home when Khartoum shut down some of its borders due to clashes wit...
Twin Crises Converge on Burkina Faso In northern Burkina Faso, near the Malian border, thousands of refugees have settled here in Mentao Camp, including Bassta Waleta Sidi and her family. We fled the violence and the killing in Mali. We are safe now,...
