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More than 100 architects and other designers spent 48 hours designing a new Christchurch city. It was a team competition. Five zones in the central city were chosen. Each zone had three or four teams working on it. Each team had five or six people. T...
Kerry: Syrian Refugee Crisis Challenges International Community Secretary Kerry and Jordanian Foreign Minister Nasser Judeh came to the Zaatari camp, where nearly 120,000 people are living in what has become a small city scraped out of a dry plain 12...
Global Health Faces Big Industry Challenges The 8th Global Conference on Health Promotion is underway in Helsinki, Finland. The meeting focuses on how public policy can meet the health challenges of a growing and changing global population. WHO Direc...
Obama, Burmese President to Discuss Reform Progress, Challenges November 2012. Barack Obama becomes the first serving U.S. president to visit Burma. He meets with President Thein Sein, who has led a bold but cautious reform process since 2011 after d...
By Patricia Nunan This week, the U.N. Security Council is continuing its discussions on its mission in Iraq, where the world body has been mandated to help coordinate nationwide elections in a securit...
By Cathy Majtenyi Somalia's new cabinet has been in office for just over a week, and already it is facing tough demands to end violence, establish rule of law and raise the war-weary population out of...
By Serena Parker On the morning of November 2, Dutch filmmaker Theo van Gogh was shot on his bicycle going to work. As he stumbled away toward a nearby building, his alleged assailant, Mohammed Bouyer...
Mike O'Sullivan Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry has all but secured his party's nomination, with wins in nine out of 10 states that held contests Tuesday. One of his victories came in Cal...
Rights Group Challenges US Security Policy on Airline Passenger Lists Jim Malone A leading U.S. civil liberties group has filed a legal challenge to a program that seeks to bar people with suspected l...