By Chris Simkins Washington 01 October 2009 Indonesian officials say the death toll from Wednesday's powerful earthquake continues to rise, and thousands remain trapped under collapsed buildings on the island of Sumatra. So far at least 770 people a...
By Luis Ramirez Dalton, Israel 30 September 2009 During the Israeli war of independence, thousands of Palestinians fled or were expelled from their villages in what is today the state of Israel. In the shadows of the ruins of the Arab villages, Jewi...
By Delia Robertson Johannesburg 30 September 2009 Work continues at Soccer City Stadium on edge of Soweto, south of Johannesburg, 30 Sep 2009 Fifty experts from FIFA and the Organizing Committee in South Africa have completed an inspection of the st...
By Susan Yackee 30 September 2009 Earth - the water planet Philippe Cousteau, grandson of famed oceanographer Jacques Cousteau, and pop musician Usher, have announced a partnership to create a volunteer organization for young people focusing on envi...
By Brian Padden Jakarta 30 September 2009 Indonesian officials say a powerful earthquake that struck off the coast of Sumatra has killed at least 75 people and trapped thousands under debris and rubble. The underwater earthquake rocked western Indon...
By Daniel Schearf Bangkok 30 September 2009 Vietnamese police officers provide goods, foods to flooded area in Quang Tri Province, 30 Sep 2009 The death toll from Typhoon Ketsana has passed 300 as the storm swept across Southeast Asia, destroying th...
By Phil Mercer Sydney 30 September 2009 People walk along scene of devastation following powerful quake in Pago Pago village on American Samoa, 30 Sep 2009 A series of tsunamis has caused widespread death and destruction in the South Pacific. The wa...
By Mil Arcega Washington 30 September 2009 Robert Zoellick World Bank president Robert Zoellick says the U.S. dollar's role as the world's reserve currency may be diminishing as a result of the financial crisis. Although he says the dollar will rema...
By Selah Hennessy London 30 September 2009 An International aid agency is calling for the World Bank to abandon old trade policies that it says harm the developing world. The British-based Christian Aid says developing country governments must have...
By Michael Bowman Washington 30 September 2009 Sidney LaFontant shops for a dishwasher with her husband and their son, at P.C. Richard Son appliance store in New York, 4 Sep 2009 A modestly upbeat reading of U.S. economic performance is adding to ho...
By Kent Klein White House 30 September 2009 President Obama makes remarks about stimulus funding for biomedical research, 30 Sep 2009, at National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Md. U.S. President Barack Obama is announcing $5 billion in new gove...
By Al Pessin Washington 30 September 2009 The commander of U.S. and coalition forces in Iraq says he is accelerating the drawdown of American troops, with 4,000 more coming out ahead of schedule by the end of October. General Ray Odierno spoke to th...
By David Gollust State Department 30 September 2009 The United States has condemned the Guinean military's brazen and inappropriate use of force against demonstrators in Conakry Monday. News reports say at least 157 people were killed and more than...
By Dorian Jones 30 September 2009 Turkish PM Recep Tayyip Erdogan addresses a gathering at Princeton University, Princeton, 23 Sep 2009 Turkey's prime minister says an agreement to re-establish diplomatic ties with Armenia will be signed by the two...
By Sonja Pace Southern Lebanon 30 September 2009 Two states side by side, two homelands for two peoples - those are the broadly accepted tenets for an end to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and a cornerstone for peace in the Middle East. Many hurdl...
