Pakistan Eyes US Drawdown in Afghanistan US President Barack Obama Wednesday announced a drawdown of U.S. forces from Afghanistan next month, with a grim warning to Pakistan: terrorist safe havens will not be tolerated. In a nationally televised spee...
Atlantis Crew 'Honored' to Be On Final Shuttle Mission The space shuttle Atlantis is preparing for the final mission of the U.S. shuttle program next month. Atlantis's crew is excited and reflective before the space craft's last flight. The crew, led...
Polls Show Americans Weary of Afghan Conflict The beginning of the expected drawdown of U.S. troops in Afghanistan follows a steady decline in American public support for a war that has gone on for nearly 10 years. When he ran for president in 2008,...
Civil War Songs Reset for 21st Century The U.S. Civil War may be a century and a half behind us, but American emotions about the conflict can still be raw. Director Peter Sellars has taken music by Pulitzer-prize winning composer George Crumb and upd...
Heavy Rains Bring Raging Floods - and a Debate This spring, so-called 100-year floods swamped many communities along the Mississippi River, America's largest commercial waterway. The flooding was so severe that the U.S. Corps of Engineers, which supe...
Jon Batzdorff Makes People's Dreams Come True Jon Batzdorff has made it his life's work to help amputees, not only in the United States, but around the world. His business is prosthetics and orthotics - the evaluation, fabrication and custom-fitting...
US Woman's Afghan Experience Inspires Novel Farishta means 'angel' in Dari, the widely spoken language in northern Afghanistan. It's also the title of a novel by Patricia McArdle, a retired American diplomat who spent a year in Afghanistan. Over her...
Unexpected Gift Teaches Man Life Lesson in 'Mr. Popper's Penguins' Wacky comedy is a specialty of Jim Carrey, but when his co-stars are six Gentoo penguins ...on the loose in New York City ...things really get wild. Here's a look at Carrey's new film...
2nd Digital Revolution is Potential Bonanza for Innovative Startups The buzz was palpable at Internet Week New York, a digital culture festival. With more than 300,000 workers employed in New York's technology sector, and nearly $2 billion in dot-com...
New Generation Revolutionizes Environmental Activism Environmental activists have relied on public pressure, boycotts and confrontation to advance their cause over the past few decades. Now, a new generation of eco-warriors is revolutionizing environ...
Americans Try Renting Their Car to Strangers Americans love their cars. There are more cars, per capita, in the United States than in any other country - more than eight cars for every 10 Americans, according to recent government figures. But most of...
Life Expectancy Declining in Large Parts of US The obesity epidemic is not just an American health issue. New data from the World Health Organization show that more than 1 billion adults around the world are overweight, nearly a third of them obese....
Former British Prime Minister Calls for Increased Investment in Sierra Leone Former British Prime Minister Tony Blair said he came to Sierra Leone to follow up on his initiatives to help the country. This is all part of the initiative we have here in...
Swiss Firm Seeks Carbon Credits in Kenya with Clean Water The purchase and sale of carbon credits are relatively new concepts in Africa, accounting for less than three percent of the $144 billion global carbon credit trade. The system is designed to...
Titanic Exhibit Brings the Tragic Story to Life When the ocean liner RMS Titanic hit an iceberg and sank on its maiden voyage in 1912, more than 1,500 passengers died. It made headlines as one of the worst peacetime maritime disasters in history. The...
