Teens Help Revive California Nature Changed ecosystem Located a little more than an hour off the coast of Southern California by the daily ferry, Santa Cruz Island is a a nature preserve. In the 19th and early 20th centuries, it was used for ranching...
US Muslims Join Together to Impact Politics, End Discrimination The number of Muslims living in America has increased by two-thirds since the terrorist attacks on U.S. soil 11 years ago. Many emigrated here and they live with discrimination from some...
East African Farmers Plant Seeds of Innovation East Africa has felt the effects of climate change over recent years. There have been frequent prolonged droughts, erratic seasonal rains and floods, all of which have put food security at risk. As a res...
Syrian Conflict Gives Hope for Families of Missing Lebanese Ali Abou Dehn has wounds he says were inflicted by the Syrian army before his release in 2000 as part of a Syrian diplomatic gesture. Dehn says he was imprisoned in Syria for 13 years. I was...
Cheaters Prospered in Historic US Land Rush A couple of boundaries between U.S. states have special historical significance. The Mason Dixon Line between Pennsylvania and Maryland, for instance, informally divided the slaveholding South from the anti...
Syrian Forces Turn to Air Power as Insurgency Gains Nearly a quarter of a million Syrians have fled their homes in recent weeks, as government bombs and mortar shells have begun targeting heavily-populated areas. Last week, amateur video on a social...
Candidates Hopes Hinge on US Economic Sentiment Republican vice presidential candidate Paul Ryan says Barack Obama cannot hide his administration's economic record. We are not going to hear evidence and facts about how people are better off [under Pr...
Egypt's Morsi Urges Arab Action on Syria Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi urged Arab leaders to make ending the conflict in Syria the region's top priority. Any talk of developing the Arab world's work, and building our shared future, cannot gain the...
Hundreds of Thousands of Cluster Munitions Destroyed A new report says governments that joined the treaty banning cluster munitions have destroyed nearly 750-thousand of the weapons since 2008. However, it also says there are credible allegations of...
Chinese Invest in Italian Soccer Club Internazionale Milan, one of Italy's most famous teams, has played in the country's top league, Serie A, since its founding in 1908. Massimo Moratti, the team president and main shareholder, recently announced an...
Nokia, Microsoft Promote New Phones Competition is heating up in the world of mobile computing with Nokia and Microsoft introducing two new smart phones, the Lumia 820 and 920, at a joint announcement in New York. The devices boast wireless charging...
Democrats Defend Obama's Foreign Policy The Republicans claim Democrats are ignoring the slaughter in Syria and not doing enough. Democrats countercharge that Republicans don't want to end the conflicts in Afghanistan and Iraq and are apt to start wa...
At DNC, Undocumented Aliens Push for More Immigration Reform For most of her life in the United States, undocumented immigrant Ireri Unzueta-Carrasco has lived in the shadows. There are a lot of obstacles when you are undocumented and you are trying...
Film Recounts Cantor Fitzgerald's 9/11 Tragic Losses, Recovery Television cameras captured the imploding towers. But the images do not show the almost 1,000 children of Cantor Fitzgerald employees who lost parents. Nor the 38 pregnant wives who becam...
Men Face Higher Death Risk, But Why? HIV-infected men in South Africa are nearly one-third more like to die than women, even though both receive similar treatment. But researchers say they dont know why. University of Cape Towns Morna Cornell led a t...
