This week's Middle East peace summit in Washington is setting a goal of one year to resolve what are known as final status issues -- the most intractable of Israeli-Palestinian problems. Among them is the right of return, which will determine the fat...
I have time to join the IGO and be an ambassador to help new incoming international students get use to the environment here at Georgetown University and Washington, DC. Shu Tao is a second-year PhD student in the Department of Biology specializing i...
Indonesia and Malaysia have stepped up efforts to protect Asia's great ape, the orangutan. Saving the endangered man of the forest may also help fight global warming. Under a canopy of green in Malaysia's Sabah state, tourists watch as orangutans are...
Frogs secrete compounds that could be used to battle MRSA and a new emerging bacterium that affects many wounded soldiers in Iraq. According to Mideast researchers, the amphibians could provide several new antibiotic compounds to fight drug resistant...
In the early 1980s, Gordy Mengel served as a Peace Corps volunteer in an isolated community in what was then called Zaire, now Congo. I was placed somewhere in the middle part of the country, says Mengel. And in the small community where I lived ther...
Vermont's Long Trail is the oldest long-distance hiking trail in the country. It follows the spine of the Green Mountains more than 400 kilometers from one end of the northeastern state to the other and inspired the much longer Appalachian Trail, whi...
Coyotes are wild animals that began moving into metropolitan areas about two decades ago. America's Wild West was known for the phantom howls of coyotes, which were often heard but seldom seen. However, in the past 20 years, these desert dogs, indige...
A NASA image shows Hurricane Earl - now a powerful Category 4 storm - as it passes over the Leeward Islands and barrels toward the US coast, 31 Aug 2010 U.S. officials say Hurricane Earl is expected to bring severe weather and possible flooding to so...
President Barack Obama has announced that the U.S. combat mission in Iraq is over. The president said Tuesday America's new mission is to advise and assist Iraq's security forces. Seven-and-a-half years after U.S. forces invaded Iraq, President Obama...
US Vice President Joe Biden, left, speaks with Gen. Ray Odierno, the top US commander in Iraq, right, with Iraqi foreign Minister Hoshyar Zebari, center, in Baghdad, Iraq, 30 Aug 2010 U.S. Vice President Joe Biden is in Iraq for talks with the countr...
Members of Indonesian hard-line Islamic groups shout slogans during a rally in front of the Presidential Palace in Jakarta, Indonesia, demanding the government disband Ahmadiyah, 5 Mar 2009 (file photo) The Indonesian minister of Religious Affairs wa...
