By Luis Ramirez Jerusalem 02 October 2009 Raffaele TV Report Download (WM) Image taken from video released by Hamas, 02 Oct 2009, shows Israeli soldier Sgt. Gilad Schalit held captive for more than three years in Gaza Strip Israel has received proof...
By Sean Maroney Islamabad 02 October 2009 Air Force MQ-9 Reaper takes off from Kandahar Air Base, Afghanistan, 13 March 2009 Pakistani authorities say a suspected U.S. drone attack along the Afghan border is believed to have killed an Uzbek militant...
By Alisha Ryu Nairobi 02 October 2009 Kismayo, Somalia Al-Shabab militants in Somalia have claimed control of the country's southern port town of Kismayo, one day after deadly fighting with a rival Islamist group. But the city remains tense amid rep...
By Fid Thompson Dakar 02 October 2009 Child suffering from malnutrition is held in makeshift feed center in town of Maradi, Niger (file photo) A new report on climate change's impact on agriculture predicts 25 million more malnourished children arou...
By Scott Stearns Dakar 02 October 2009 Guinea military leader Capt. Moussa Dadis Camara salutes during independence day celebrations in Conakry, Guinea, 2 Oct 2009 Guinea's military ruler used the nation's independence day to express his sympathy fo...
By Selah Hennessy London 02 October 2009 A voter casts their vote in north Dublin, 02 Oct 2009 Irish voters headed to the polls Friday to decide on a referendum on the European Union's Lisbon Treaty. Observers say turn-out has been slow on a vote th...
By Peta Thornycroft Southern Africa 02 October 2009 Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe addresses the 64th session of the General Assembly at the United Nations headquarters, in New York, 25 Sep 2009 Zimbabwe's President Robert Mugabe has said his fa...
By Akiko Fujita Tokyo 01 October 2009 Japanese Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama pledges Thursday, 01 Oct. 2009 to do his utmost to bring the Olympics to Tokyo in 2016 as he prepared to go to Copenhagen for the big vote The International Olympic Committ...
By Mike O'Sullivan Los Angeles, CA 01 October 2009 A California doctor is taking a message of healing to impoverished parts of the world through an organization called the Real Medicine Foundation. The German-born physician is making a difference by...
By Fid Thompson Dakar 01 October 2009 Oprah Winfrey in Copenhagen, Denmark 30 Sep 2009 Emerging Nigerian writer Uwem Akpan's short story collection, Say You're One of Them, recently was chosen by U.S. television talk show host Oprah Winfrey for her...
By Michael Bowman Washington 01 October 2009 Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke (file photo) America's central bank chief is urging U.S. lawmakers to expand the regulatory oversight for banks to include other large financial and insurance firms w...
By Martin Phillips New York 01 October 2009 The effects of global warming are a concern to many. In the United States, the worry is that large areas of coastline will be lost as water levels rise. Now, a woman from New York thinks she may have a sol...
By Melinda Smith Washington 01 October 2009 Child with cancer A childhood cancer foundation based in the U.S. estimates that 160,000 children around the world are diagnosed each year with cancer. The odds of survival are better in developed countrie...
By Jim Malone Washington 01 October 2009 The U.S. Supreme Court opens its annual term Monday with a new justice and a new slate of potentially significant cases. US Supreme Court (file photo) The Supreme Court traditionally opens its annual term on...
By Carolyn Weaver New York 01 October 2009 A U.S. federal judge has ruled that hundreds of documents detailing the Central Intelligence Agency's now-shuttered overseas secret detention program of suspected terrorists, including extreme interrogation...
