Homeless Female Vets Get Unique Final Salute Ozora Cassanova could never have imagined becoming homeless a year ago. I was a full-time student, she says. I had a part-time job. I had my military job and I was a wife. Life changed for the National Gua...
Reality of Mormon Life More Complex Than Romney Image Iconic temples, a world-famous choir, and clean-cut missionaries sent worldwide by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Salt Lake City. But a visit to suburban Salt Lake City shows h...
Evangelical Christians Reconcile Anti-Mormonism With Romney Choice Joseph Smith had 34 wives, 11 of whom were currently married to other men when he took them as wives! says Rob Sivulka, who goes for the jugular in his polemic outside the headquarter...
Can We Feed the World? Decades after the Green Revolution took place in many parts of the world, food shortages, high prices, hunger and poverty are major problems. Its estimated there are about one billion chronically hungry people. Now, a new book...
US Congressional Gold Medal Program Has Long History Aung San Suu Kyi is the latest recipient of the Congressional Gold Medal, the nation's highest civilian award. Congress bestows the honor on an individual for a distinguished contribution or a life...
Arrests Mark 1st Anniversary of Occupy Wall Street Demonstrators sought to occupy Wall Street only to find police already there. Nonetheless, protesters got within one block of the New York Stock Exchange to make their point that a wealthy one percen...
Aung San Suu Kyi Visit Indicates Progress in US-Burma Relationship Within the last year, Aung San Suu Kyi, has made the transition from being Burmas most famous dissident to becoming a member of her country's parliament. Her schedule on her U.S. trip...
Shedding Light on Extraction Industries Europe is a step closer toward curbing corruption in extraction industries in developing countries. A European Parliamentary committee has approved proposed legislation that would require European companies to...
Angola's Economic Boom Has Winners and Losers The city has become a big construction site. Everywhere in Luanda, new buildings are rising from the ground, as a ballet of cranes is shaping the new skyline of the capital. Luanda is busy leaving the pas...
Refugee Camps Spread Life-Threatening Diseases At a crowded camp in South Sudan, where thousands have come to escape the region's military conflict, officials report that an outbreak of Hepatitis E - a viral infection transmitted by contaminated food...
Life Returns to Somali Coastal Town after Al-Shabab Exit AMISON in, Al-Shabab out African Union forces known as AMISOM faced little resistance when they rolled into Marka late last month. The Al-Shabab Islamist militants, who had controlled the town...
Pastoralists Played Major Role in Ending Rinderpest In June 2011, the U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization officially declared that the deadly animal disease rinderpest had been eradicated. The disease devastated livestock and lingered in Africa lo...
Marylanders Recall Bloodiest Day in US History Last week on September 11th, people around the world vividly recalled the day 11 years earlier when foreign terrorists piloting hijacked airplanes killed nearly 3,000 Americans and others. Today, its mos...
Angola Still Riddled With Landmines, Despite Efforts Cautiously, meter after meter, a deminer checks if the ground is clear of mines and unexploded devices. He is working on a demining zone operated by the NGO Norwegian People's Aid five hours east o...
Film Protests Show New Challenges for US in Middle East The release of a video that many consider insulting to Islam has sent thousands of people to the streets to protest in countries such as Yemen and Sudan. Some protests became violent attacks on...
