Free Press Eludes Burma Despite End of Censorship This week, newspapers in Burma will hit newsstands without ministry censorship for the first time since 1962. For the staff at The Myanmar Times, a Rangoon-based weekly, this is the first editorial me...
Syrian Rebels Share Common Goal Captain Maan Mansour was a pilot in the Syrian military. He abandoned his post three months ago and joined the rebels of the Free Syrian Army. I defected because the Assad regime was killing women and children and inno...
Couple Aims to Preserve Yemen's Past Amid Present Chaos The ancient land of Yemen is known more today for its fight against poverty, tribalism and terrorism. Perhaps it's not the best place for an American couple to build a house. But that's what sch...
Syrian Bombings Force Villagers to Flee Marea, a town in northern Syria about 40 kilometers from Aleppo. A family clears up what remains of their home after a government warplane bombed it on August 21 killing one person and wounding eight others. Sa...
US: Meles' Death Loss for Sudan Peace Process Prime Minister Meles Zenawi played an active role in helping end the long-running civil war in Sudan. The U.S. Special Envoy for Sudan and South Sudan, Princeton Lyman, says his passing is a great loss. H...
In Australia, Brain Power Fuels Emotion-Driven Music A team of Australian researchers is tapping into the nerves and bodies of volunteers to create a raw musical performance driven purely by emotions. In a world first, the data is fed into special so...
Mental Health Services Absent for Traumatized South Sudanese At Jubas military hospital, the walking wounded often have scars that cannot be seen. Psychologist Amasi Ibrahim Adam says that she sees many fighters with post-traumatic-stress disorder. M...
Spying on New York Muslims Yields No Leads Surveillance of the Muslim community by the NYPDs secret Demographics Unit for at least the past six years has not yielded a single lead or launched any terror investigation. That statement, part of a decade...
Writer of America's Soundtrack Turns 80 For over 50 years, John Williams' music has taken us to galaxies far, far away with the Star Wars theme, or on rollicking adventures around the world with the Indiana Jones movies. His scores make us feel giddy...
Drought Kindles US Farmers' Appetite for African Grain Sorghum Walking through lush, green fields of sorghum, Nebraska farmer Fred Prokop treads on ground deeply scarred by weeks of drought. But he says the sorghum crop is patient. It'll wait for wat...
German Housewife Hailed as Euro Solution In the parks of Stuttgart, the regional capital of Swabia, there are few signs of a crisis, and the economy is growing. In a speech, at the start of the global financial crisis, German Chancellor Angela Merkel...
German Housewife Hailed as Euro Solution In the parks of Stuttgart, the regional capital of Swabia, there are few signs of a crisis, and the economy is growing. In a speech, at the start of the global financial crisis, German Chancellor Angela Merkel...
Marriage Goes from Lackluster to Loving in 'Hope Springs' After more than three decades together, Kay and Arnold are in a rut with the same routine day after day. For reasons neither will talk about, their love has grown cold. Desperate for help, Kay...
Hollywood Resurrects Schwarzenegger's 'Total Recall' It's the not too distant future: a post-war society has the wealthy elite living comfortably while the working poor battle over scraps. Unable to afford genuine adventures, they live vicariously th...
Teenager's Music Star Dreams Come True in 'Sparkle' It's Detroit in 1968 and Motown is winning fans around the world. A teenager nicknamed Sparkle aches for her songs to be part of that, and she convinces her sisters to join her in a local club's tal...
