The plight of Christians in the Middle East was the subject of a two-week meeting of Roman Catholic bishops at the Vatican in October. Thousands of Christians are leaving the region each year, some due to the rise of Islamic fundamentalism. In the cr...
A new exhibit in New York explores the city's long history of cultural and political connections with Spain and Latin America - ties that have affected virtually every aspect of the city's development. Whether it's the bilingual signs, the ever-prese...
Birds and planes have been colliding since the Wright brothers first took to the air. There are dozens of bird strikes each day, causing hundreds of millions of dollars in damage to airplanes each year, and putting the lives of passengers and crew me...
An international effort to build a detailed map of human genetic variation has completed its pilot phase and could shape a new understanding of human evolution and may help in fighting disease. Getty Images/iStockphoto The 1000 Genomes Project aims t...
U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton embarks Wednesday on a two-week Asian tour that will take her to Vietnam, Cambodia, Malaysia, Papua New Guinea, New Zealand, Australia and China. The trip is expected to bolster Washington's ties with Asian all...
It's not unusual to find musicians from different genres - or from different cultures - collaborating. Opera star Luciano Pavarotti belted out the blues with Eric Clapton and South Africa's Ladysmith Black Mambazo recorded an album with folk legend P...
The scheduled November 7 general election in Burma, the first in 20 years, is drawing widespread criticism. The ruling military government is restricting foreign media and observers from monitoring the elections.? And the United Nations' Special Rapp...
Health providers and aid groups have mobilized to combat outbreaks of cholera in Haiti and Nigeria. Often causing extreme dysentery and dehydration, cholera arises from a strain of bacteria that is easily spread and hard to eradicate from infected zo...
For thousands of years, humans have gazed up at the night sky and watched the stars. Now, NASA's Kepler mission gives scientists the chance to listen to the stars.? Astronomers are using stellar soundwaves to measure stars more accurately than ever b...
Since the food crisis of a few years ago, much attention has been paid to improving agriculture and conserving the land. But land is not the only source of food. The oceans provide food and jobs for millions of people, yet very little is being done t...
A pair of unlikely league champions begin their duel for Major League Baseball supremacy Wednesday night in San Francisco, as the National League champion Giants host the American League's Texas Rangers at ATT Park (8pm EDT). Neither team was expecte...
Ivory Coast's Prime Minister is trying to resolve concerns about how the votes in Sunday's presidential election will be counted. With just five days to go before Ivory Coast's long-delayed presidential election, Prime Minister Guillaume Soro wants t...
The battle for control of the U.S. Congress has entered its final week and both major political parties are engaged in a furious last-minute push for votes. According to the opinion polls and political pundits, Republicans continue to have the upper...
James Zogby is one of the nation's most influential Arab-American leaders. Through the Arab American Institute, the son of Lebanese immigrants has mobilized the Arab-American electorate, taking it from the margins of American politics and forging an...
Most of the world's poor are not in poor countries. That's the finding of new research from the Institute of Development Studies (IDS) at the University of Sussex. It could lead to a re-thinking of donor aid and ways of achieving the Millennium Devel...
