Prayerful Nuns Produce Heavenly Cheese Every day, at Our Lady of the Angels Monastery in the foothills of Virginia's Blue Ridge Mountains, the 13 resident nuns gather for prayer. Theirs is a simple Christian life of worship and meditation. The sister...
Illegal Immigrants Offered Lower Tuition for Higher Education American dream on hold Ivette Roman is one of those people impacted by the presidential decree. Born in Peru, she's one of thousands of immigrants who were brought to the U.S. illegally by...
Popular Indian Yoga Guru Could Influence Election Gopal Singh Bisht says he was healed from Hepatitis B under Ramdevs guidance. He believes its now his duty to spread the gurus message. Soon, he will join thousands of others in traveling across India...
Son of Sex Worker Struggles to Preserve Pakistan History House of treasures Tucked away in Iqbal Husseins house are treasures of Lahore's history: doors big enough for an elephant to walk through, hand-carved balconies, Hindu statues. Many art pieces...
Eels on Slippery Slope in East Asia It's feeding time at the Gochang eel farm in South Korea. These fish are headed for kitchens across northeast Asia, where Japanese and South Koreans devour the vast majority of the global catch. Eels, served fresh...
Bacterium Targets Untreated HIV-Positive People Researchers are warning of an emerging form of intestinal disease in sub-Saharan Africa. Its targeting mostly HIV-infected people, who are not on treatment. The disease kills up to 45 percent of those i...
US Economy Grew at Slower Pace in Second Quarter U.S. domestic output weakened in the second quarter, growing at the slowest pace in 9 months. The slowdown is blamed partly on unusually warm weather - a prolonged drought that decimated farm inventori...
California Immigrants Become Politically Active City officials in Rosemead in the San Gabriel Valley were trying to close a poultry store. It sells freshly slaughtered chickens and other birds, with their heads and feet on, the way that many Asian im...
UN Envoy Has High Hopes for Somalia The U.N. Special Representative for Somalia says the backbone of the al-Shababs militant group has been broken. However, Augustine Mahiga says isolated terrorist attacks in the country may continue for a time. Spea...
Ban Calls for Renewed Effort to Wipe Out Polio Creating a polio-free world - that is what international leaders gathered in New York said they hope to do. U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon expressed his delight at the new promises by member states t...
Oil Giants Eye Arctic Reserves Last winter in the Arctic, the Russian tanker Renda carved its way to the remote Alaskan port of Nome. Not long ago this voyage - made in December and January - would have been impossible. The warming climate means thin...
Donors Set Health Priorities A new article in PLOS Medicine says large donors have a major influence on which health issues get funded. The author says its an attempt by governments and others to exert more control over international agencies. Oxford...
Sirleaf: Liberia Will not Destabilize its Neighbors Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf says she will never allow her country to be used to destabilize neighboring countries. Speaking Wednesday at the 67th session of the UN General Assembly in N...
Glaucoma, A Stealth Disease And Major Cause of Blindness If you think you are not at risk for glaucoma, think again. Glaucoma is a disease that steals the sight of people around the world -- and they typically don't even know they have the disease un...
Kenny Chesney's Latest Album Builds on Success Feel Like A Rock Star was the first single released from Chesneys new album. The recent Top 10 hit is a duet with his longtime friend Tim McGraw. As of late July, their co-headlining Brothers of the Sun...
