By Fid Thompson Dakar 22 September 2009 The human rights group Amnesty International says the maternal health situation in Sierra Leone amounts to a human rights abuse. The small West African nation has one of the highest maternal mortality rates in...
By Brian Wagner Miami 22 September 2009 A supporter of Honduras' ousted President Manuel Zelaya runs during clash with riot police in front of Brazil embassy in Tegucigalpa, 22 Sep 2009 Riot police in Honduras on Tuesday broke up marches by supporte...
By Daniel Schearf Bangkok 22 September 2009 Cambodian opposition leader Sam Rainsy (file photo) Cambodia has been accused of silencing critics with lawsuits, jail time, and assassinations. Cambodia's opposition leader says the crackdown is the gover...
By Deborah Block Washington 21 September 2009 Video games are fun, but besides providing entertainment, some of them actually teach people how to resolve global conflicts without violence. Several organizations are using video games and other virtua...
By Scott Bobb Johannesburg 21 September 2009 Caster Semenya (File photo) South Africa's top athletics official is in danger of losing his job. The government's sports ministry and major political parties have called for him to be removed for lying a...
By Heda Bayron Hong Kong 21 September 2009 The head of the World Health Organization urged Asian health chiefs to continue health-care reforms despite the global economic downturn. Margaret Chan says the WHO is working to give poorer nations access...
By Phil Mercer Sydney 21 September 2009 Rehearsals are underway for Australia's first indigenous opera. Pecan Summer tells the story of a historic Aboriginal protest in the late 1930s. Over the years Aboriginal performers have been drawn to rock mus...
By Alan Silverman Hollywood 21 September 2009 Matt Damon stars as Mark Whitacre in the offbeat comedy 'The Informant! Director Steven Soderbergh dips into the truth can be stranger than fiction files for a fact-based farce about a financial scandal...
By Mike O'Sullivan Los Angeles 21 September 2009 Cast and crew of 'Mad Men' accept Emmy award for best series drama, 20 Sep 2009 Mad Men, a drama series about the advertising business, and the comedy 30 Rock earned top honors at the Emmy Awards in L...
By Larry London Washington 21 September 2009 With a collection of five Top 10 Billboard chart hits off of two Number One albums, RB performer Ne-Yo has established himself as a powerful force in music. Since writing the chart-topping hit, Let me Lov...
By Kane Farabaugh Chicago, IL 21 September 2009 Congress established the Medal of Honor, the highest honor awarded for bravery in the U.S. armed forces, in 1862. Since then, presidents have awarded 3,448 Medals of Honor. Only 95 recipients are still...
By Zorislav Baydyuk Slippery Rock, Pennsylvania 21 September 2009 For two weeks every summer, a campground in (the U.S. state of) Pennsylvania is transformed into a medieval village where people dress and act as if they were living back in the middl...
By Margaret Besheer New York 21 September 2009 The annual gathering of world leaders at the U.N. General Assembly debate gets underway this week in New York, with dozens of meetings and events taking place on its sidelines. This will also be Barack...
By Al Pessin Washington 21 September 2009 U.S. Gen. Stanley McChrystal (r) commander of NATO forces in Afghanistan and German Colonel Georg Klein at site of bombing near Kunduz, 05 Sep 2009 A report from the new U.S. and NATO commander in Afghanista...
By Brian Padden Jakarta 21 September 2009 Authorities say the death of Noordin Top, the leader of a group responsible for the July 17 bombings of two hotels in Jakarta, is a significant victory in Indonesia's war on terror. But they also say that po...
