World Population Day Focuses on Family Planning There are already seven billion people living in this world. Half of the population is under the age of 25. We add a quarter of a million people a day to the world population, and, of course, the planet...
Long-Lost Siblings Meet Up in 'People Like Us' Sam is angry and reluctantly back home after learning his father has died. He's been estranged from the family for years. Now, his struggle with the flood of memories is complicated by the one thing bequ...
Children Learn to Play Music by Listening in Suzuki Method Five-year-old Hannah Mei Steury started violin lessons two months ago. Her teacher, Stephanie Flack, says Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star is the first song children learn to play. Its a very sim...
World Food Prize Laureate Heads Global Food Security Center Gebisa Ejetas air conditioned office at Purdue University is a world away from the one-room thatched hut with mud floors where he grew up in Ethiopia. There wasnt any school in the community...
US Navy Presses Forward with Biofuels Going green The U.S. Navy has a special message this year at the Rim of the Pacific exercises bringing together the navies of more than 20 nations off the Coast of Hawaii: It is time to turn green. Joining the ve...
In US, Few Roadside Attractions Remain In the first half of the 20th Century, state governments furiously built highways to accommodate Americans growing passion for the automobile. These roads were nothing like todays wide, high-speed interstates. T...
WHO: Better HIV Antiretroviral Strategies Needed The World Health Organization says comprehensive HIV treatment strategies are needed in developing countries to overcome stigma and discrimination. It says there are a number of vulnerable groups unabl...
UN says Journalists Need Greater Protection Reporting, risky business American war correspondent, Marie Colvin and French photographer Remi Ochlik were killed in Syria on February 22. They are among 65 journalists killed in the first five months of 2...
Iceland Turns Away from EU as Economy Recovers Four years ago, Icelanders were angry. Banks' emblems were burned in the street. People worried they would lose their houses, their savings. The country felt isolated. After 90 years of independence, Ice...
Putin Introduces Measures to Curb Political Opposition For months, presidential candidate Vladimir Putin had to put up with protests. Now, President Putin is fighting back. First, he pushed through a law dramatically raising fines for protest organiz...
Libyans Hold Emotional Multi-Party Election, First in 60 Years Many young men were fighting the forces of Moammar Gaddhafi just nine months ago. Today, some of those same young men are presiding over a raucous intersection of celebratory horn honking...
US Jobs Data Adds To Global Recession Fears The U.S. government's closely-watched monthly employment report has become an important barometer of the state of the world's largest economy. Combined with the debt crisis in Europe, and manufacturing slow...
Immigration Law Divides Washington DC-Area Community Francisca Sorto is the owner of El Rinconcito Latino restaurant in Prince William County, Virginia, where she serves up specialties like tamales from her native El Salvador. My employee [count] is...
S. Sudan Prepares for 1st Independence Anniversary Across Juba, people are working around the clock to prepare the city for South Sudan's first ever Independence Day anniversary. Over the past week, streets have been swept, fresh paint has been appli...
US Unemployed Become Jobless, Homeless, Hopeful Jobless Robbyne Sudduth became a statistic - unemployed, homeless. Laid off from Xerox in 2007, she left Michigan and came to New York looking for work. I was putting out resumes and doing what people d...
