Doin' My Thing is the title track from Luke Bryan's second album. We really crafted the album and crafted what we felt like we've learned the past couple of years from my fans, and put out an album to really gear toward capturing a broader fan base,...
The Senate passed the bill Thursday with the help of two key votes from opposition Republicans. It now heads to the U.S. House of Representatives, which is expected to pass the bill and send it to the president to become law. President Obama says U.S...
Pope Benedict says it is difficult to understand the perversion that has been revealed in the priestly ministry. He addressed the clerical sex abuse scandal that has engulfed the Roman Catholic Church in comments to journalists on the plane from Rome...
Secretary of State Clinton met with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas at the Palestinian Authority's headquarters in Ramallah. There was no statement and no details of what, if any, progress might have been made after two days of negotiations betwe...
U.N. Deputy High Commissioner for Human Rights Kyung-wha Kang is calling for the international community to combat the culture of impunity that has fueled more than two decades of war in Somalia. Kang's comments followed an official two-day tour of t...
The report issued by the WHO shows birth-related mortality declined by 34 percent during the past decade - from about 546,000 deaths in 1990 to an estimated 358,000 deaths in 2008. That is an annual rate of decline of about 2.3 percent. Although the...
British scientists say they have found a way to diagnose tuberculosis in an hour. Alasdair Reid is an advisor on HIV and Tuberculosis (TB) at UNAIDS. He says diagnosing TB quickly will revolutionize the fight against the illness. It will save time fo...
Brian Wilson has been a lifelong Gershwin fan. He heard I've Got A Crush On You, Rhapsody In Blue, and other George and Ira Gershwin classics at an early age. Brian went on to become the co-founder and leader of one of rock and roll's greatest bands,...
Speaking on French radio, the Secretary of State responsible for European affairs, Pierre Lellouche, described the EU Commissioner's comments as a gaffe. He said France is a great state and as a founding member of the European Union should be address...
Newspaper columns in Israel and the Palestinian territories have placed little hope that these negotiations will accomplish what decades of attempts at peace have failed to do. Others have expressed optimism that the talks have at least made it into...
U.S. Middle East envoy George Mitchell said late Wednesday he believes progress is being made on the issue of extending an Israeli freeze on settlement building in the West Bank. Mitchell spoke in Jerusalem after a second day of direct Israel-Palesti...
This has been a bittersweet week for Cindy Hickey, the mother of Shane Bauer, the American hiker who became engaged to Sarah Shourd during their prison stay. On the one hand, Hickey said she is thrilled by Tuesday's news that Shourd, who suffered sev...
The latest violence erupted in the town of Mendhar, which had been untouched by the mass protests that have engulfed the Kashmir valley. Police opened fire after protesters tried to enter a Christian school and attacked government buildings. In New D...
For American soldiers of the 101st Airborne, Manas Air Transit Center is a welcome patch of America in the heart of Central Asia. Two hours away is their ultimate destination - the battlefields of Afghanistan. Manas offers a flying gas station for Am...
When Bryan Lee moved to New Orleans to escape the harsh winters of his native Wisconsin, the city's French Quarter was home to a thriving blues scene. One of his steadiest jobs was playing five nights a week at the Old Absinthe House on Bourbon Stree...
