By Michael Bowman Washington 20 October 2009 Weak U.S. housing data is tempering enthusiasm stoked by upbeat earnings reports from some of America's best-known corporations. From technology giant Apple to construction-equipment maker Caterpillar, a...
By Mike O'Sullivan Los Angeles 20 October 2009 Millions of wild horses, known as mustangs, once roamed North America. Today, just a fraction of that number are left, most in the American Southwest. In her new book Mustang, Deanne Stillman celebrates...
By Bernard Shusman Rye, New York 20 October 2009 Bob Woodruff in Iraq In 2006, ABC News correspondent and television anchorman Bob Woodruff was wounded while covering the war in Iraq. He suffered a traumatic brain injury and was not expected to surv...
By Alisha Ryu Nairobi 20 October 2009 A major military exercise involving five East African nations and the United States is taking place in Uganda. The U.S. military says the exercise is part of on-going efforts by the United States and its regiona...
By Al Pessin Honolulu, Hawaii 20 October 2009 Command of U.S. forces in Asia and the Pacific and Indian Oceans passed to a new commander on Monday at a ceremony in Honolulu, Hawaii. Navy Admiral Robert Willard said the U.S. commitment to the region...
By Al Pessin Tokyo 20 October 2009 U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates, right, shakes hands with Japan's Foreign Minister Katsuya Okada at the Foreign Ministry in Tokyo, 20 Oct 2009 U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates told Japan's new leaders Tuesda...
By Al Pessin Aboard US Military Aircraft Over Pacific Ocean 20 October 2009 US Defense Secretary Robert Gates U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates says the United States and its allies must work with whatever Afghan government emerges from last month...
By Margaret Besheer United Nations 20 October 2009 Ban Ki-moon (Oct 2009 file photo) The U.N. secretary-general says having learned valuable and painful lessons from the widespread fraud that plagued the first round of Afghanistan's presidential ele...
By Selah Hennessy London 20 October 2009 The media watchdog Reporters Without Borders has released its annual press freedom index. Several prominent European countries have slid down the ranking while the United States has made significant moves for...
By Selah Hennessy London 20 October 2009 A global watchdog group says world oil supplies are running low and that may lead to food shortages and spiraling armed conflict. Britain-based Global Witness says governments are doing nothing to prepare for...
By Phil Mercer Sydney 20 October 2009 Australia's worst oil slick since the mid-1980s is now tainting Indonesian waters. Fishermen in West Timor say contaminated fish are making villagers ill. Oil began leaking two months ago, following an accident...
By Margaret Besheer United Nations 20 October 2009 Ibrahim Mayaki, Chief of New Partnership for Africa's Development -NEPAD The Chief of the New Partnership for Africa's Development, or NEPAD, says agricultural development is the key to prosperity f...
By Ron Corben Bangkok 20 October 2009 Bang Khun Thien's Bamboo sea wall serves as protection from the sea, Gulf of Thailand, Thailand, 20 Oct 2009 Along Thailand's coast efforts are under way to reclaim lost mangrove swamps that have been destroyed...
By Scott Bobb Harare 20 October 2009 Teachers across Zimbabwe struck for three weeks last month over demands for higher pay, closing schools and causing parents to worry that their children might lose a second school year to Zimbabwe's economic cris...
By Peta Thornycroft 20 October 2009 Zimbabwe's Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai during a press conference in Harare, 16 Oct 2009 Zimbabwe Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai and Mozambican leader Armando Guebuza are to meet late Tuesday for talks on wa...
