By Rachel Silverman San Francisco, CA 27 October 2009 According to the Kaiser Family Foundation, more than 46 million people in the United States had no health insurance coverage last year. While the nation struggles with reforming health care, one...
By Jeff Swicord Washington 27 October 2009 For the first time in 30 years, Social Security recipients in the United States will not receive an annual adjustment in benefits. More than 52 million older Americans depend on Social Security for all or p...
By Monaliza Noormohammadi San Francisco 27 October 2009 A disposal company in San Francisco takes trash very seriously. For more than 15 years it has invited selected artists to create works of art out of the trash San Franciscans throw away. The ar...
By Carolyn Weaver New York 27 October 2009 Organizers call it a cinema across borders, the first-ever festival of Kurdish film in the United States. The films chosen for the five-day event at New York University focused on a people widely dispersed,...
By Kent Klein White House 27 October 2009 President Barack Obama speaks during his tour of the DeSoto Next Generation Solar Energy Center in Arcadia, Florida, 27 Oct 2009 U.S. President Barack Obama says the government will spend $3.4 billion to upd...
By Brian Wagner Miami 27 October 2009 President Barack Obama speaks during his tour of the DeSoto Next Generation Solar Energy Center in Arcadia, Florida, 27 Oct 2009 President Barack Obama traveled to Florida on Tuesday to help unveil the nation's...
By Margaret Besheer United Nations 27 October 2009 Air Force MQ-9 Reaper takes off from Kandahar Air Base, Afghanistan, 13 March 2009 The U.N. Special Rapporteur on extrajudicial killings says the use of armed unmanned aircraft by the United States...
By Jennifer Glasse London 27 October 2009 A memorial stone for the victims of Pan-Am flight 103 iin a garden of remembrance near the village of Lockerbie, Scotland, Nov. 2008 Scottish police have just announced they are looking into evidence surroun...
By Kaite Hamann Jakarta 27 October 2009 The governor of Indonesia's Riau Islands has refused to allow a boatload of Sri Lankan refugees to land in the province. The decision deals a blow to Australia's efforts to transfer the problem of refugees see...
By Scott Bobb Maputo 27 October 2009 Supporters attend ruling Frelimo party election rally in Nampula city, Mozambique, 25 Oct 2009 Election officials in Mozambique say they are ready for Wednesday's national elections. Voters are to elect a preside...
By Lauren Comiteau The Hague 27 October 2009 Former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic in courtroom of the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia in The Hague, 31 Jul. 2008 In a repeat of Monday, Radovan Karadzic again boycotted...
By Lisa Bryant Paris 27 October 2009 Europe will increase its aid to Afghanistan despite concerns the situation in the central Asian country is deteriorating. The decision was announced during a meeting of European Union foreign ministers in Luxembo...
By Peta Thornycroft Southern Africa 27 October 2009 Talks between Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe and Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai to resolve the political deadlock in the country's unity government have failed and Movement for Democratic Chang...
By Meredith Buel Washington 27 October 2009 A nationwide survey of people throughout Afghanistan shows more people think the country is moving in the right direction, but a lack of security and corruption are still major concerns. People walk near a...
By Delia Robertson Johannesburg 27 October 2009 Protester fires sling shot during clashes with police in Standerton, South Africa, 15 Oct 2009 For at least three years, as the country's winter months begin to bite, poor South Africans have taken to...
