Fistula Surgery Changes Nigerian Women's Lives Allowing the patient to live a normal life and giving her back some dignity is the objective of this surgery performed in Jahun hospital, in northeast Nigeria. Since 2008, the aid group Doctors Without B...
Neil Diamond Back On Tour When Neil Diamond turned 71 in January 2012, retirement was the furthest thing from his mind. In fact, today, the singer-songwriter is busier than ever. On June 1, he launched a three-month tour of the U.S. and Canada in Ft....
Californians React to Supreme Court Immigration Ruling The court ruled that three parts of SB 1070, the Arizona law aimed at illegal aliens, were infringements by the state on federal authority over immigration. But it kept in place a controversial p...
Turning the Tide against AIDS Next month, the United States will host the worlds largest AIDS conference for the first time in more than 20 years. More than 20-thousand people are expected to gather in Washington, D.C. for AIDS 2012. The top U.S. off...
Helping Victims of Torture Tuesday is International Day in Support of Victims of Torture. The theme is: Rehabilitation works and is a torture survivors right. June 26th is the 25th anniversary of the U.N. Convention against Torture. When we talk abou...
High Olympics Price Tag Draws Controversy Grand preparations The stadiums and arenas of the Olympic Park are impressive, and the Olympics will no doubt be a grand show. But concerns about the cost linger. Former British Olympic gold medalist and memb...
Ocean Levels Rising Fast on US Coasts Ocean levels are rising faster and higher on both coasts of the United States than in other parts of the globe, according to two new studies, and California could be especially hard hit. There will be about one m...
Greeks Seek Shelter Overseas As Russians Move In Greece and park it in a safe haven, he said. They talk about German bonds, gold and property and I suppose their argument is you cant live in a bond or in gold. Figures show Greeks are moving their mon...
Young Singer Wins Chance of a Lifetime The National Anthem can be a challenge, but more than two dozen singers, aged eight to 17, gave it their best shot for a chance to perform it with the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra. They come on stage and they ar...
Virginia City Tops Amazon's 'Well Read' List Americans love lists - of the top 50 colleges, the top 10 recording artists, the top 100 movies of the millennium, and on and on. These lists sell a lot of magazines, because theres always room for disagre...
Kenyas Olympic Trials Provide London Preview In a country that reveres its runners, many of whom are the best in the world, it is no surprise Kenya's National Olympic Trials were so well-attended by Kenyans and tourists from outside the country. Satu...
Dump Provides Livelihood, Brings Perils to Nairobi Poor Sixteen-year-old Joseph is one of the many children working at the Dandora dump site. He has been here since January, when he left school because his family could not afford his school fees. Hes...
Ukrainians Offer Free Rooms for Foreign Guests at Euro 2012 Ukraine has never seen such a large number of foreign visitors, making the Euro 2012 championship a celebration - as well as a challenge. When it became obvious the visiting football fans wo...
Public Hearings on Popular Pesticide Spotlight Safety Concerns Every year, U.S. farmers apply more than 35 million kilograms of the pesticide atrazine on their fields of corn, sugarcane, sorghum and other crops. But a growing body of scientific evide...
Egypt's President-Elect at Home in His Village Just a few months ago, the idea of Mohamed Morsi as Egypt's first post-revolution leader seemed remote at best. But in Edwa, his home village in the eastern Nile Delta, no one seemed to doubt this native...
