Congolese Displaced on the Move Again Many civilians displaced by the fighting in the eastern DRC are on the move again. The U.N. refugee agency describes the situation as fluid and unstable, making it harder for humanitarian agencies to provide assi...
Kyoto Protocol Winds Down As Delegates Head To Doha As delegates from 190 countries head for Doha to try to forge a new deal on tackling global warming, the Kyoto Protocol - signed in 1997 - is due to expire at the end of the year. That deal sets bin...
Honoring US Civil War Dead As the U.S. commemorates the 150th anniversary of the Civil War, a new project is underway to honor the more than 620-thousand soldiers who died in the conflict. Its called the Living Legacy Project. Cate Magennis Wyatt sai...
Some Discontented Texans Talk Secession Texas barbecue is on the menu and secession from the Union is the topic at this restaurant near Houston. The Texas Nationalist Movement is pushing the idea, though the group did not originate the petition for T...
Amnesty warns of M23 Rebel Abuses Amnesty international says the displacement of thousands of people in the eastern DRC has created both a humanitarian and a human rights crisis. Amnesty International researcher Theo Boutruche says the M23 rebels hav...
New Study Could Change Treatment For Asthma Most adults who have mild or moderate asthma are told to use their inhalers twice daily, even if they don't have symptoms. The medicine in those compressed-air inhalers are corticosteroids, which open a per...
M23 Rebels Urged to Protect Civilians Humanitarian agencies in the eastern DRC are scrambling to locate displaced civilians and provide assistance following the M23 rebel groups takeover of Goma. For years, the town has been the center of aid operati...
After 50 Years, Muslim-Jewish Band Reunites A new documentary from the Arab world focuses on Muslim and Jewish musicians who reunite thanks to their common passion, after being torn apart by war 50 years ago. The film El Gusto, showcases the group pe...
UN Chief Warns of Perils Ahead of Climate Change Conference The first decade of this century was the hottest on record, and the vast majority of scientists attribute the changes to greenhouse gases that trap heat in the lower atmosphere. Those gases...
US Thanksgiving Turkey Is Mexican Immigrant Thanksgiving is the quintessential American holiday and roast turkey is the definitive centerpiece of the holiday feast. But the domesticated turkey is not an American invention. It's Mexican. The bird was...
Millions Hungry as US Dumps 40% of its Food Even though one in six Americans is chronically hungry, almost half of all food produced in the United States ends up in the trash. That's about $165 billion worth of food discarded every year at home, in r...
After Sandy, New Yorkers Give Holiday Thanks This year's Thanksgiving holiday falls just three weeks after Hurricane Sandy battered New York City, leaving thousands homeless or displaced. Rashawn Austins neighborhood was relatively unscathed but love...
Critics of Jordan's King Bemoan Missed Opportunities In recent days, some Jordanians have broken a long-held taboo - chanting attacks on King Abdullah himself. The protests were sparked by a cut in subsidies, meant to forestall a fiscal crisis and co...
Obama Meets Chinese, Japanese Leaders at East Asia Summit It was the first meeting between the president and Premier Wen since their talks at the last East Asia Summit in Bali last year and since Obama's re-election to a second term. The two have met...
Author Celebrates Los Angeles Chinatown With her red hair and freckles, Lisa See looks Caucasian. But she's one-eighth Chinese and is part of an extended Chinese-American family. She's at home as she strolls through Chinatown's neighborhoods and temp...
