By Stefan Bos Budapest 23 September 2006 Tens-of-thousands of Hungarians rallied Saturday and demanded the resignation of Prime Minister Ferenc Gyurcsany in the largest anti-government demonstration so far. The protest comes nearly a week after a ta...
By Lisa Schlein Geneva 09 September 2006 This school building in Bint Jbeil, Lebanon sustained heavy damage after the Isreali military campaign UNICEF says it is working with the Education Ministry in Lebanon to have 350,000 Lebanese children in sch...
By Patricia Nunan New Delhi 04 August 2006 Aid workers say thousands of people are fleeing a town in eastern Sri Lanka where fighting between the government and Tamil Tiger rebels has raged for more than a week. The fighting goes on as a senior peac...
By Lisa Bryant Lourdes 26 June 2006 For nearly 150 years, millions of Christian pilgrims from Europe and elsewhere have flocked to the small French town, Lourdes, where it is said the sick can be healed, miraculously. The Roman Catholic church has a...
By Michael Bowman Washington 01 May 2006 Amid heated debate over illegal immigration in the United States, millions of immigrants cut short their workday or stayed home in hopes of demonstrating their...
By Patricia Nunan Kathmandu 25 April 2006 Thousands of people have rallied on the streets of Nepal's capital Kathmandu to celebrate the decision by King Gyanendra to reinstate parliament and allow opp...
By Nico Colombant Buduburam Refugee Camp, Ghana 27 March 2006 watch Refugee report Three years after peace was restored in the West African nation of Liberia, tens of thousands of refugees remain in c...
By Mike O'Sullivan Los Angeles 26 March 2006 Hundreds of thousands of marchers crowded the streets of Los Angeles Saturday to protest proposals to toughen enforcement of U.S. immigration laws. Similar...
By Scott Bobb Bangkok 03 March 2006 In Thailand, an estimated 100,000 people gathered at a mass rally in downtown Bangkok to show support for Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra. The show of support cam...
By Sabina Castelfranco Rome 22 January 2006 More than 10,000 people marched in the city of Messina in Sicily to protest the planned construction of a bridge linking the island to mainland Italy. Thous...