US Maintains Presence in Jordan A detachment of F-16 fighter jets and patriot missile batteries are staying at the request of Jordan. U.S. officials say the aim is to help Jordanian forces in their efforts to prevent a spillover of the Syrian conflic...
Kerry Heads to Doha for Syria Talks As rebel and government forces continue to fight north of the Syrian city of Aleppo, diplomats are pressing for the negotiated solution of a transitional authority for Syria. There is a unanimity about the importan...
Shark Fin Consumption Declines in Hong Kong Harvesting is what fishermen call the brutal act of cutting the fins off of living sharks and throwing the torso back into the ocean. Around 50 percent of all shark fins worldwide are traded through Hong Ko...
Kerry Praises Genetically Modified Crops U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry said Wednesday the United States supports the use of biotechnology to develop so-called smart crops that can withstand droughts and floods and require less fertilization. So...
NY City University Immigration Program a Success The immigration bill is the big issue on the minds of those seeking information about citizenship. The City University of New Yorks call-in phone banks for immigrants draw thousands of inquiries. Volun...
Basic Steps Help Protect Personal Information From Hacking U.S. government officials say the surveillance covered only metadata - the patterns of the phone calls and internet messages - not the substance of the communications. According to reports, a...
Protests Continue in Turkey, But Methods Changing Istanbul's Taksim Square. These standing man protests, as they are called, began Monday after the government quashed mass demonstrations, which it said were fomenting violence and chaos. The early pro...
Numbers at 18-Yr. High as UN Observes World Refugee Day Four-year-old Shahad laughs and jokes with her older sister in their makeshift home. She appears a happy, young girl; but the scars and burn marks on her smiling face tell the story of her begin...
Russia, China Downgraded in US Trafficking Report Modern-Day Slavery Human trafficking is a worldwide problem, with an estimated 27 million people trapped in modern-day slavery. Only a small fraction of them, about 46,000, were identified last year,...
Obama Visit: Acknowledging Senegals Democratic Track Record Obama visits Senegal a little more than a year after a hotly contested presidential race tested the country. That election in 2012 began with deadly street protests against the incumbent's u...
Scientists Create 3D Roadmap of Human Brain The project is called BigBrain. In three dimensions and intricate detail, it reveals the anatomy of the brain as never seen before. These are images of a 3-D reconstructed human brain with a spatial resolut...
Nagorno Karabakh Cleans Up Old Conflict, Fears New One Almost 20 years after fighting stopped over Azerbaijans breakaway Nagorno-Karabakh province, this mountainous land still holds its deadly secrets - anti-tank mines, anti-personnel mines and clust...
US Postal Service Unveils Music Icon Stamp Series The first issue in the Music Icon series honored Lydia Mendoza, a pioneer of Tejano music, the style that comes from the Texas-Mexico border area. Lydia Mendoza was 18 years old when she walked into a...
NASA: Humans Could Visit Asteroid in 2021 These chunks of ancient space rocks hold clues about the formation of the universe, pose threats to our planet, and present new territory for explorers. NASA's proposed asteroid mission is a logical next leap...
Turkey's PM Hits Back at International Critics of Crackdown After weeks of anti-government demonstrations in cities across Turkey, there was a moment of quiet as demonstrators staged silent protests. In Istanbul's Taksim Square - where the protests b...
