War Photographers in Harm's Way War correspondents often place themselves in harm's way and, unavoidably, some die doing their jobs. Five have perished just this year in Libya, all of them photographers. Some wonder why photojournalists place their l...
World Refugee Day Given Urgency by Arab Spring As the world marks UN Refugee Day on June 20, the number of people escaping violence across the Arab world is on the rise. Pro-democracy uprisings are being brutally suppressed in places like Libya and S...
France, Germany Show Solidarity on Greek Economy The leaders of France and Germany signaled Friday they want to find a quick solution to the economic crisis in Greece. In Greece, the prime minister reshuffled his Cabinet and replaced his finance mini...
Genetic Test Pinpoints Cause of Patient Illness About a decade ago, scientists decoded the human genome, creating a gene-by-gene map of our DNA. In the decade since, genetic research has accelerated, but mostly it's stayed in the laboratory. Now, gen...
You'll Never Guess One of America's Boom States During a spring of extraordinary flooding in America's Northern Plains, the mostly flat, lightly populated state of North Dakota experienced 17 record river crests. This, after one blizzard after anothe...
Analysts Dispute Iran's Uranium-Enrichment Claims The international community has demanded that Iran fully acknowledge all of its nuclear related activities, and halt any work toward acquiring nuclear weapons. But Tehran has responded by announcing t...
Americans Die Sooner than Others in Industrialized Countries A new analysis of life expectancy around the world finds Americans are lagging behind other industrialized countries, and also identifies vast disparities within the United States itself. L...
Power Portraits Capture World Leaders World leaders and heads of state are always in the public eye. We watch them on TV and see their photos in newspapers and magazines. But when New Yorker staff photographer Platon Antoniou - who uses just his firs...
Researchers Identify New Target in Cancer Fight Scientists have identified a new way of fighting cancer that limits the growth and spread of a variety of tumors in laboratory animals. When you get a cut, the area quickly becomes inflamed - swollen, r...
Sudan Blames Bombardment on Southern Aggression As violence continues along Sudan's disputed north-south border, the government of Sudan has rejected U.S. President Barack Obama's demand for peace. On the defensive after international condemnation of...
Pakistan Denies Arresting Army Major for US Ties A report in Wednesday's New York Times quotes unnamed U.S. intelligence officials as saying Pakistan has arrested five people, including a Pakistani military official, accused of passing information to...
Anna Wilson Marries Country and Pop on 'Countrypolitan Duets' Country meets pop and jazz on a new album by singer-songwriter Anna Wilson. Anna Wilson taps into Nashville's so-called Countrypolitan era with the help of past and present country stars a...
Big Cats at Home on the Range Five years ago, U.S. conservation biologist Josh Donlan got some people howling with a controversial article in the scientific journal Nature. Almost literally howling, since the subject was his proposal to re-wild the G...
East Africa Food Shortages Expected to Affect More People In East Africa, millions people are in need of emergency food assistance because of the prolonged, severe drought. Now a U.N. agency warns that things could get worse. Steady rain is hard to c...
NASA Art Captures 50 Years of Exploration One of the nation's most prolific art collectors is the U.S. space agency. For nearly a half-century, NASA has commissioned artists to document its missions and projects. Seventy of the 3,000 works in its col...
