Poison lead singer Bret Michaels poses for a portrait as he promotes his new solo album Custom Built During the past four months, Bret Michaels, lead singer of rock band Poison, underwent an emergency appendectomy and suffered a near-fatal brain hemo...
57-year-old Geoffrey Erickson has been determined to overcome limitations ever since a motorcycle accident put him in a wheelchair 33 years ago. He is one of the main characters in the film. Americans this year are marking the 20th anniversary of the...
U.S. stocks fell for a third day as disappointing earnings and economic news showed signs of a weakening recovery. The Dow Jones Industrial average fell more than 60 points before the opening bell on Thursday after technology giant Cisco posted weake...
US farmer-soldiers assist Afghan farmers with crops like this small purple flower, which is being raised for saffron, the valuable spice the bloom produces. While U.S. forces battle daily with Taliban insurgents and try to uproot Al Qaeda terrorists,...
A police officer near the Hartford Distributors in Connecticut on Aug. 3, 2010, where eight people were killed by a fellow worker who'd just been fired from his job. (AP Photo/Jessica Hill) There have been a number of deadly workplace shootings aroun...
Government-sponsored political imagery abounds in the Venezuelan capital, where President Hugo Chavez constantly seeks to link his socialist program to ideals espoused by liberators, revolutionaries, and leftist icons from South America and beyond. T...
Police detain a woman - one of the protesters who gathered for an unsanctioned rally, known as the Day of Anger - in front of the Moscow mayor office, 12 Aug 2010 Russia's two-month heat wave took a political turn as protesters tried to gather in fro...
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, right, speaks with US Mideast envoy George Mitchell during their meeting at Abbas' office in the West Bank city of Ramallah, 10 Aug 2010 U.S. special Middle East envoy George Mitchell left Israel this week without...
Iranian lawyer Mohammad Mostafaei, who defended Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani, speaks in Oslo, where he applied for political asylum, 8 Aug 2010 Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani, an Iranian woman condemned to death by stoning, has allegedly confessed to adult...
The U.N. refugee agency says it welcomes a decision by the Ethiopian government to relax restrictions on Eritrean refugees. Agency officials say a new policy introduced by the government allows Eritrean refugees who can support themselves to live out...
As Hong Kong struggles to build an environmentally friendly city, one professor is studying ways to help cut carbon emissions and lower electricity usage by covering the city's rooftops with plants. Jim Chi Yung, a geography professor at the Universi...
The drive to develop a battery to power automobiles, without using petroleum, is also behind the effort to develop an electric powered airplane. New designs for electric aircraft were recently unveiled at the Experimental Aircraft Association's (EAA)...
NBA legend Dikembe Mutombo of Congo coaches a young Special Olympics athlete during a Basketball Without Borders community event in Dakar, Senegal, 5 Aug 2010 The National Basketball Association's Basketball Without Borders Africa program this year b...
Various stages of cartilage growth on scaffold. The final image on the right shows naturally forming cartilage for comparison. These replacement joints can be made of combinations of metal alloys, plastic and ceramic, but new research shows that it m...
Smuggling costs billions of dollars in lost tax revenues Faiza Elmasry | Washington, DC 11 August 2010 A truckload of black market cigarettes could be worth $2 million in profits for smugglers. Lawmakers across the U.S. have raised taxes on cigarette...
