Burma Releases Dozens of Political Prisoners Burma has released more than 100 political prisoners as part of a general amnesty, including a few prominent activists. Rights groups have welcomed their release but are urging that all political prisoners...
US Congress Prepares to Vote on Three Free Trade Pacts Both houses of the U.S. Congress are expected to approve free trade pacts with South Korea, Colombia and Panama. The accords were negotiated during the former Bush administration, and had been sh...
Radio Essays Explore Technological Creativity There are mechanisms in nature as well as in human endeavors like engineering and art. Since 1988, the creative manipulation of these mechanisms has been explored in short radio essays about the history o...
Tymoshenko Conviction Puts Ukraine at Crossroads with Russia, Europe A Kyiv court has sentenced former Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko to seven years in jail for abusing her power in a 2009 gas deal with Russia. The conviction and jail sentence comes...
Washington Demonstrators Seek to Continue Protest Anti-war and anti-Wall Street demonstrations are springing up in major cities across the United States, nearly a month after they started in the heart of New York's financial district. At the protest...
Northern Town Celebrates Status as Last Confederate Holdout The firefighters in Town Line are one sign of the New York hamlet's unusual history. Sporting a Confederate flag on their uniforms, they're known as the Last of the Rebels. Thats because thi...
Hawaii Enjoys Financial Boost from TV Show For years, Hawaii has been a popular destination for tourists, but now its making a name for itself as a TV and film production hub. A reboot of the 1960s police drama Hawaii Five-O, which helped develop the...
Halloween Recalls Radio Drama Which Spread Panic in US Halloween - October 31 - is a time to wear spooky costumes and tell scary stories. Perhaps the scariest tale was told on Halloween eve in 1938, when a radio drama spread panic along the U.S. East...
Tribal Dispute in Afghanistan Benefits Taliban After 10 years at war, coalition forces are still struggling to bring peace to Afghanistan. In some places, the effort is being undermined by tribal rivalries that draw away attention and resources. Domi...
Inte rnational Tourists Flock to Sabang Despite Sharia Law Despite strict Sharia laws mandating that Muslim women wear headscarves and banning alcohol consumption, international tourism on the island of Sabang in Indonesia's Aceh province is growing....
Worlds Tallest Flagpole, Flies World's Largest Flag in Tajikistan The worlds tallest flag pole, flying the worlds largest flag, now flies in Tajikistan, in the heart of Central Asia. Celebrating 20 years of independence Rising 165 meters in the air,...
Clashes in Cairo Spark Fears of Sectarian Violence Egypt's ruling military council on Monday ordered the government to investigate the killings of at least 25 people in Sunday's street battles between Coptic Christians and Egyptian security forces. T...
Black Conservative Herman Cain Surges in US Presidential Campaign Polls In the past couple of weeks, a man many voters had never heard of until recently surged in public opinion polls about the race for the U.S. Republican presidential nomination. He...
South Korea Emerges as Unlikely Source of Caviar The unfertilized eggs of the sturgeon have made the fish one of the worlds most valuable wildlife resources. Some 90 percent of the worlds caviar comes from sturgeon in the Caspian Sea, but uncontrolle...
Afghan Civilians Bear the Brunt of War Casualties Statistics posted on iCasualties.org, an independent monitoring group, show that more than 2,700 foreign troops have died during the past 10 years in Afghanistan. But since the start of the decade-lon...
