Technology Hub Launches Businesses in Cameroon Zinger Systems began as a business idea in the minds of a few Cameroonian entrepreneurs. After they spent one year developing their academic software and business model at Activspaces, a technology hub i...
53 Dead in Attack on Iraqi Shites Firefighters hosed down the pavement along the road where the bombing took place, as workers removed pieces of food, shoes and clothing from the scene of the explosion. Dozens were killed and wounded in the blast, bu...
EU Leaders Angry at Credit Downgrade From Larnaka to Brussels, European Union officials were on the defensive Saturday, downplaying the downgrades while vowing to push through fiscal reforms. In a widely anticipated move, the rating agency downgraded...
New Film Explores Life in Modern Tehran The film opens in divorce court with Nader, a bank employee, and his estranged wife Simin, a doctor, appearing before a judge. Simin is filing for divorce because she wants to leave the country. Simin feels if...
Europe Debates Iran Oil Sanctions Amid Debt Crisis With sanctions tightening, Irans leader toured South America, including a stop in Cuba Wednesday. President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is looking for new friends and new markets. The U.S. has already impose...
China Exports Fall to Two-Year Lows Sales of Chinese-made goods overseas have been one of the biggest drivers of China's phenomenal growth. But new data shows that export growth may already have peaked. Investment strategist Pu Yonghao at UBS Wealth...
Unique Species of Shrimp, Anemones Thrive Near Caribbean Seafloor Vents The volcanic vents were discovered five kilometers down near the bottom of Cayman Trough - an undersea trench south of the Cayman Islands. Expedition co-leader Jon Copley, a mari...
Ahmadinejad Has Little to Show After Latin American Trip Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmedinejad's last stop was Ecuador. At a news conference with President Rafael Correa, the Iranian leader denied widespread international suspicions that his country...
Passwords Could Soon Be Obsolete The American technology company released its 6th annual Five-in-Five, a list of five innovations the firm expects to see within five years. One of them will enable us to generate small amounts of energy to supplement...
US Mormons Say They are Misunderstood Despite Romney Candidacy It is story time at the Cook home. Two-year-old Tristan gets his work-weary father Dave Cook to read him one book after another before going to bed. As Dave and his wife Andrea sit on the...
South Dakota Retains Unique Vintage Charm If youre into time travel, time warps, time capsules, that sort of thing, you should take a trip to the high-plains state of South Dakota. Youll feel like youre back in the 1940s. That was long before high-sp...
India Achieves Milestone in Global Polio Eradication International reaction To help India celebrate one year since its last reported case of polio, U.S. Health Secretary, Dr. Kathleen Sebelius, came to administer oral polio vaccine to Indian children...
Politics Complicate China-US Relations Taiwan has been separately governed since Nationalist forces fled there in 1949, after losing the countrys civil war. China still considers the island its territory has threatened to use force to regain control...
Ethiopia Awaits Influx of Refugees from Sudan and South Sudan Humanitarian agencies are preparing for an influx of refugees into Ethiopia from both Sudan and South Sudan. Civilians, mostly women and children, are fleeing fighting and violence in bord...
Duplicitous Boss Turns on Female Secret Agent in 'Haywire' MALLORY: This is your pitch? You want me to be 'eye candy?' MI-6 wants me to be eye candy? I don't even know how to play that. I don't wear the dress. When Mallory Kane does wear a dress it i...
