Australian scientists are getting help from elephant seals to build a greater understanding of climate change. The marine mammals carry sensors that transmit data about ocean currents and sea ice. From Sydney, Phil Mercer reports. Elephant seals Sci...
By Dorian Jones Istanbul 16 April 2008 At this year's Istanbul International Film Festival, one of the major attractions is A Jihad for Love , a documentary about a taboo subject: homosexuality in Islamic countries. Homosexuality is strictly banned i...
By Mil Arcega Washington 06 July 2007 Mobile phone technology is not just revolutionizing the way we communicate - it's also changing the way we are entertained. Take movies for example: once limited to the big screen, consumers can now watch movies...
By Kane Farabaugh New York 01 May 2007 Middle East Fulbright Scholars Israeli Dan Bar-On and Palenstinian Sami Adwan As the United States works to renew flagging peace efforts in the Middle East, other forms of diplomacy are also at work. One such ef...
By Delia Robertson Johannesburg 14 March 2007 Zimbabwe opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai says police brutally beat him and other opposition leaders following their arrest on Sunday. Mr. Tsvangirai was interviewed by a radio reporter who was at the...
By Alan Silverman Hollywood 17 September 2006 Filmmaker Brian De Palma takes movie audiences back to 1940's Los Angeles in his new 'film noir' thriller adapted from a classic crime story by hard-boiled author James Ellroy. ----- Aaron Eckhart and Jo...
By Nico Colombant 18 January 2006 Now that inauguration festivities are over, Liberia's President Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf is getting to work full time, while her choices for cabinet positions are being...