By Kurt Achin Seoul 07 November 2007 All bets are off now in South Korea's presidential race. With just a little more than a month to go before the vote, a new independent candidate may draw support away from the former Seoul Mayor who, until now, ap...
By Phil Mercer 07 November 2007 Researchers have uncovered a language used by migrating whales off the Australian coast. Thousands of hours of humpback whale sounds recorded off Queensland have revealed a vast repertoire of social sounds. From Sydney...
By Barry Newhouse Islamabad 07 November 2007 Former Pakistan Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto has vowed to launch a massive protest march unless President Pervez Musharraf steps down as head of the army and restores the constitution by next Tuesday. VOA...
By Leta Hong Fincher Washington 07 November 2007 Protests continue in Pakistan against President Pervez Musharraf's state of emergency. Former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto arrived in Islamabad on Tuesday and Pakistan's deposed chief justice urged la...
By Greg Flakus Houston 07 November 2007 In Mexico, relief efforts continue in the flooded state of Tabasco and in nearby Chiapas state where a landslide destroyed a village Sunday. Among the various disaster response teams in the flood zone in southe...
By Teri Schultz Brussels 06 November 2007 The European Union has issued its annual enlargement update, assessing the progress of seven candidate countries toward full membership in the 27-nation bloc. The E.U. concluded no country, with the possible...
By Deborah Block Irbil 06 November 2007 Turkey's president says his country has decided on how to proceed against Kurdish rebels in northern Iraq and has informed the United States. The comments by President Abdullah Gul Tuesday came a day after U.S....
By Sabina Castelfranco Rome 06 November 2007 Italian investigators have identified the villa where the new boss-of-bosses of the Sicilian Mafia, Salvatore Lo Piccolo, was living before being taken into police custody and vow more arrests of Mafia mem...
By Meredith Buel Washington 06 November 2007 Protests are continuing in Pakistan following President Pervez Musharraf's decision to suspend the constitution and declare a state of emergency. South Asian analysts say there is a small window of opportu...
By Challiss McDonough Cairo, Egypt 06 November 2007 An Egyptian court sentenced two police officers Monday to three years in prison for torturing a detainee. The police had videotaped the attack in order to further humiliate the victim, but that reco...
By VOA News 06 November 2007 Former Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto arrived in Islamabad Tuesday for meetings with opposition parties to discuss ways to overturn emergency rule imposed by President Pervez Musharraf. Ms. Bhutto said she has no...
By Faiza Elmasry Milwaukee, Wisconsin 06 November 2007 An organic farm known as Growing Power and its owner, a former basketball player are on a mission. Over the past 15 years, Will Allen has developed what he calls an ecologically sound urban farm...
By Selah Hennessy Dakar 06 November 2007 United Nations officials say Congolese soldiers have obstructed food distribution to displaced families in the Democratic Republic of Congo by trying to register their own families for U.N. aid. Dozens were in...
By Lisa Schlein Geneva 06 November 2007 The U.N. refugee agency (UNHCR) says a team of aid workers that traveled during the weekend to Afgooye, a small town west of Mogadishu, found thousands of newly displaced Somalis living in extremely harsh condi...
By Steve Mort Washington 06 November 2007 People across the United States are gathering at scores of local events to highlight international efforts to tackle infectious diseases. The meetings are part of a celebration marking the 62nd anniversary of...