The world's largest water lilies are blooming in a tropical greenhouse at London's Kew Gardens. The world's smallest known water lily (Nymphaea thermarum), extinct in its native central African habitat, is thriving in a British botanical garden. Scie...
Hurricane Katrina rescuer is among those recognized Mohamed ElShinnawi | Washington, DC 20 May 2010 Chicago Mayor Richard Daley (left) was honored for his efforts to promote better relations between the US and the Arab world. For the past 12 years, L...
The 'summer' movie season is starting with a bang: the sequel to a 2008 blockbuster that brings back Robert Downey, Jr. in the dual roles of billionaire playboy and rocket-powered super-hero leaping from the pages of Marvel Comics; and there are new...
Young cooks challenged to produce nutritious tasty meals for 10,000 Shelley Schlender | Louisville, Colorado 19 May 2010 Known as the Renegade Lunch Lady, Chef Ann Cooper arranged the student chef competition. The popular TV cooking competition, Iron...
Scientists race against time to train people to de-oil birds Nathan King | Dauphin Island, Alabama 19 May 2010 As oil from that major spill in the Gulf of Mexico reaches land, scientists are in a race against time. Just off the Alabama coast, on Daup...
Senator Arlen Specter gives his concession speech to supporters on stage with his wife Joan Specter, center, and son Shanin Specter, right, in Philadelphia, 18 May 2010 American voters appear to have taken out their anger and frustration at Washingto...
President Barack Obama and Mexico's President Felipe Calderon hold a joint news conference in the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington, 19 May 2010 U.S. President Barack Obama says he is pleased the United States has reached an agreement with...
Report finds US often puts security interests ahead of Mideast democracy Mohamed Elshinnawi | Washington, DC 19 May 2010 A soldier and citizen at a security checkpoint in Yemen, one of the countries the study's authors believe should be urged to inst...
At the week-long conference, participants are focusing on three primary roadblocks to getting and keeping girls in school: violence, poverty and the poor quality of education. Scholars, aid workers, and government officials from 22 countries are in D...
German Chancellor Angela Merkel reacts after she addresses the parliament in Berlin, 19 May 2010 Germany's decision this week to ban speculative short selling of certain types of financial instruments has rattled financial markets around the world, f...
Hundreds of Muscovites have been strapping blue buckets to the roofs of their cars to mock the flashing blue lights that allow senior bureaucrats to drive into oncoming traffic and break the rules that everyone else has to obey Russian lawmakers are...
Women wait to receive baby food in southern Niger, during the launch of a UN-backed feeding operation aimed at fighting malnutrition among young children, (File) Ending the cycle of hunger in Africa's Sahelian region means reinvesting in local agricu...
A Sudanese man holds three archive copies of 'Rai al-Shaab' newspaper which was confiscated, 16 May 2010. Amnesty International has urged Sudanese authorities to end their crackdown on freedom of expression, following the arrest of four employees of...
U.S soldiers wait after collecting the body of an insurgent from a vineyard near the Bagram airbase after insurgents launched a brazen pre-dawn assault against the giant U.S.-run Bagram Air Field, in Bagram, Afghanistan. At least 10 insurgents have b...
Vidushi Sinha | Washington, DC 18 May 2010 The World Health Organization calls antibiotic resistance one of the three greatest threats to human health. Experts fear antibiotic resistance puts humans in danger of becoming nearly defenseless against so...
