Playwright Explores Lebanon's Sectarian Divide Actor Ziad Itani is portraying the women in Tarik al Jadidah and the scrutiny they face when it comes to marriage. Societal norms dictate that women must choose the right man, from the right family, and...
Peres: Kerry Making Progress on Resuming Mideast Talks As Palestinian leaders met in the West Bank to discuss Kerry's push to restart talks on a two-state solution, Israeli President Shimon Peres, speaking in Jerusalem, said U.S. efforts are moving t...
Kerry: Syrian Refugee Crisis Challenges International Community Secretary Kerry and Jordanian Foreign Minister Nasser Judeh came to the Zaatari camp, where nearly 120,000 people are living in what has become a small city scraped out of a dry plain 12...
Environment May Affect Development of Language There are about 7,000 languages in the world, and they are constantly evolving and changing. But it's a bit of a mystery why languages change the way they do. Anthropologist Caleb Everett of the Universi...
New Software Tells Who's in the Forest and Who Isn't If you listen closely to a recording of a rainforest in Puerto Rico, you probably will not be able to count how many frogs you hear. Unfortunately, one of those frogs - the one with the really high...
DRC Army Advances in 4th Day of Battle The scene is a government army position at mid-afternoon Wednesday, just after the M23 had started targeting some nearby tanks. You men get forward, the sergeant is shouting. Where are you retreating for? Get in...
Findings Could Help Slash Child Malnutrition Child malnutrition is a global problem. It exists even in rich countries. It affects a large number of children in Asia, especially in south Asia. In parts of the world, such as sub-Saharan Africa, it thre...
Morsi Overthrow Divides Mideast, Deepens Turmoil With Egypt's ouster of the Islamist president in the limelight, Syria's brutal civil war has been out of the headlines in recent days. But President Bashar al-Assad is using Egypt's crisis as propagand...
Researchers Record Iceberg Breaking Loud as an Earthquake The sound can be mistaken as a stringed instrument like a double bass, or maybe some kind of truck on the highway. But it actually is an iceberg, in the Antarctic Weddell Sea, grinding slowly...
Campaign Begins to Ensure Free Press The African Union has launched an effort to rid East Africa of colonial-era defamation and sedition laws. Since independence, many countries have used them to clamp down on freedom of the press. The effort to have...
US Unveils Green Supercomputer Lined up in a sprawling room on the second floor of Argonne National Laboratorys Theory and Computing Sciences building is the future of supercomputing. Argonne Director Eric Isaacs says MIRA can go where few computers...
Burmas President Visits London Amid Accusations Of Ethnic Cleansing President Thein Sein has been embraced by the West as a political reformer. British Prime Minister David Cameron welcomed him to London in the mutual hope of developing trade links....
South Africans Want to Give More This Mandela Day Mandela dedicated his life to giving South Africa the biggest gift he could imagine: freedom. On his 91st birthday, this extraordinary man finally asked the world for something in return. Since that d...
Kerry Returns to Mideast to Press for Talks Kerry returns to the region after talks late last month produced what he called real progress. With a little more work he believes the start of final status negotiations on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict...
California Winemakers Target China Producing Napa Valley wine is a highly skilled craft, and Chinese consumers are developing a taste for it, says Tom Hinde of Yao Family Wines, started by former Chinese basketball star Yao Ming. We've made five vint...
