For the last few years, the United States and other Western nations have been training thousands of Palestinian police as part of efforts to build institutions for a new Palestinian state. For the most part, the forces have succeeded in creating bett...
An aircraft is seen after takeoff at the airport in Frankfurt, Germany when German air traffic control opened the airspace after it was closed for days due to the volcanic ash cloud that came from Iceland, 21 Apr 2010 The closure of airspace over Bri...
Yusufu Koma, a mining diver, is seen before he dives down in a river on the outskirts of the town of Bo, Sierra Leone, 8 Apr 2006 Two years after Sierra Leone signed up to the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative, the government has submitte...
Bold action by central banks and national governments staved off a global economic depression during the financial crisis of 2008 and 2009, but at a tremendous cost nations will struggle to overcome. That is the conclusion of a panel of trans-Atlanti...
U.S. Admiral Mark Fitzgerald says commercial ships in the Gulf of Aden and Indian Ocean should carry armed guards to help defend against Somali pirates. The area is enormous and we just do not have enough assets to cover every place in the Indian Oce...
Lawmakers in Washington say U.S. and Mexican authorities need much more help to battle violent drug traffickers. At a hearing this week, several members of a Senate committee blasted plans for a so-called virtual fence as a waste of taxpayer dollars....
Hispanics are the fastest-growing ethnic group in the United States. In the last official U.S. census 10 years ago, Hispanics, or Latinos, made up more than 12 percent of the population. Their numbers are expected to be much higher when the governmen...
Thursday is the 40th anniversary of Earth Day, and environmentalists are using this year's observation to call for tougher measures to protect whales. The 88-nation International Whaling Commission (IWC), is set to rule soon on proposals to partially...
Jazz greats Duke Ellington and Louis Armstrong meet at New York's Madison Square Garden after a tribute to Ellington, 23 February 1970. April is designated as Jazz Appreciation Month in the United States. It celebrates this unique American music form...
Qi Ding is spending one year at Fayetteville State University studying Computer Science because of a program called Three plus One Dual degree program. Marsha James | Washington, DC 21 April 2010 Fayetteville State University Student Qi Ding I feel i...
On the the 40th anniversary of Earth Day [April 22], this warming planet we live on is posing serious new challenges to human civilization: increasingly severe droughts, floods, and storms across the globe, and slowly rising ocean levels. Author, edu...
Climate quilt gives children a voice in fighting for the environment Faiza Elmasry | King of Prussia, Pennsylvania 21 April 2010 Watch: Elmasry Report Windows Media Children worldwide designed 'pledge patches,' depicting how they promise to work on e...
Jen Tonon expects to graduate from the gaming program at Montgomery College this year. She has already landed a job at a game development company Young people in the United States start playing video games as early as age four or five. Often the amou...
Amateur 'ham' radio operators don't need web cams or the Internet to chat with people all over the world Matt Sepic | St. Louis, Missouri 20 April 2010 Helen Schlarman, 89, has multiple sclerosis and says ham radio lets her connect with friends she's...
In this March 14, 2008 file photo, Dorothy Irene Height, who served as President of the National Council of Negro Women for 40 years until 1997, sits in front of her featured story board inside the Freedom's Sisters exhibition at the Cincinnati Museu...
