Each year, the International Bluegrass Music Association honors a festival with their prestigious Bluegrass Event of the Year award. Last year, the honor went to the Grey Fox Bluegrass Festival, held each July in a tiny town in upstate New York. The...
In July, a mentally ill woman decapitated her mother before committing suicide by jumping out of her apartment window. In June, a teenage boy stabbed his mother and sister to death. A month before that, a man with history of mental illness stabbed hi...
Authorities imposed a strict curfew across Indian Kashmir a day after 18 people were killed in clashes with security forces. The government, which is searching for a way to calm down the protests that have gripped the region, says it will consult all...
An official of the Democratic Party of Japan announces that Prime Minister Naoto Kan has won the party leadership post. Mr. Kan won 721 votes in Tuesday's election, compared with Ichiro Ozawa's 491 ballots. Since the DPJ controls the lower house of J...
Seraphic Fire made its debut a little over seven years ago. Classical music critic Greg Stepanich says it's become an essential part of South Florida's music scene - performing works from the Renaissance to the 21st Century. Every concert that they d...
The United Nations estimates there are about 250,000 child soldiers around the world, and millions more that are victims of armed conflict. Challenges outweigh positives Despite this hapless situation, the U.N. Secretary-General's Special Representat...
Let me just begin by saying there are two sides to every story and this is my side ...the right one. Olive is the best student, easily earning the top grade - A - in all of her classes. Her social life, on the other hand, gets low marks until, inspir...
The initial three-way meeting of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Neyanyahu, Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas and U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton extended nearly two hours - longer than planned. Although he kept to a stated commitment to av...
The government in Turkey secured a decisive victory in a referendum on its reforms to the constitution. The result has been positively received internationally, but opponents accuse the government of seeking to undermine the independence of the judic...
Former British Prime Minister Tony Blair says he does not regret his decision to take Britain to war in Iraq, but did not foresee the nightmare that had unfolded there. The revelations come in Mr. Blair's newly published memoirs. In the 718-page book...
Pope Benedict XVI will arrive Thursday in Britain for a four-day visit. It is only the second papal visit to the country since the Reformation and the first official state visit. Claz Gomez taps away eagerly at the keyboard of her computer. She is hu...
It was not a religion that attacked that September day. It was al-Qaida, a sorry band of men who pervert religion. - President Barack Obama On the ninth anniversary of the 9-11 attacks, U.S. President Barack Obama has emphasized that America is not a...
The streets surrounding Ground Zero were both busy and somber on Saturday morning as thousands of people from many walks of life came to commemorate the anniversary of the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks on New York nine years ago. It's the morn...
The United States is marking nine years since the 9-11 terrorist attacks on New York and Washington. The anniversary comes amid controversy over plans for an Islamic center near Ground Zero and a threat to burn the Quran. The biggest event in New Yor...
Celebrations for the holiday Eid-al-Fitr in Pakistan are muted as millions of Pakistanis continue to suffer in the wake of the country's worst flooding. The heavy rains came to Pakistan just before the Muslim holy month of Ramadan, known locally as R...
