The 52nd annual Grammy Awards ceremony took place Sunday, 31 January, in Los Angeles. No longer single but very much in control, Beyonce emerged the big winner at Sunday night's 52nd annual Grammy Award ceremony. The 28-year-old singer, and wife of r...
Related Links Los Cenzontles It provides a way for children to learn about their strength and the beauty that's inside of them. Leading a Mexican folk music revival was the furthest thing from Eugene Rodriguez's mind while growing up in a white middl...
There are people out here who have master's degrees and college education and are not high school dropouts. We've had people who came out of $300,000 homes. Every American neighborhood seems to have one mom to whom all the children gravitate. In a co...
Overfishing led to regulations that then drained jobs from a Massachusetts town Ted Landphair | Washington, DC 01 February 2010 Recently, we told you about New Bedford, the whaling capital of the world before the discovery of petroleum made whale oil...
February is Black History Month in the United States. It pays tribute to people and events that shaped the history of African Americans. A pivotal moment happened 50 years ago when four black university students in North Carolina sat down at a whites...
As he begins his second year in office, President Barack Obama is renewing his effort to reach out to opposition Republicans, despite the fact that 2010 is a congressional election year in the United States. After his election in 2008, Mr. Obama prom...
U.S. President Barack Obama held a town hall meeting Monday using an unusual venue - the YouTube Internet Web site. He took questions submitted via e-mail and video during and following his State of the Union address last week. The president has enga...
U.S. President Barack Obama has sent a $3.8 trillion budget request to Congress for the fiscal year that begins on October first. It is the first step in what is expected to be a long, contentious budget process. President Obama is walking a fine lin...
People near the Haitian capital of Port-au-Prince are taking tentative steps to get their lives back to normal, after the devastating earthquake on January 12. In Mirebalais new students have arrived and classes are expected to resume in a few days....
We have clearly indicated that those are our tanks and they are. I do no know where they are getting those things.- Kenya's Defense Ministry Spokesman Bogita Ongeri The Kenyan government has dismissed a report by a Swiss research institute that says...
An African Union summit has given the organization more authority to act against unconstitutional changes of power. Coups and conflicts are dominating the summit agenda. African leaders broadened the definition of unconstitutional power change and ap...
International pressure is mounting for Ivory Coast to hold its long-delayed presidential elections, as controversy over the voter list threatens to once again push back the poll. In January, President Laurent Gbagbo accused the Independent Electoral...
Thousands heeded call by Anglican Church to attend outdoor service in Harare to protest not being allowed to worship by former bishop, followers David Clement 01 February 2010 Thousands of people heeded a call by the Anglican Church to attend an outd...
They may be the victims of unwanted sexual advances. And unfortunately, very, very often it might come even from their teachers. When boys and girls reach puberty, their bodies go through many physical changes. But for girls in Africa, the onset of m...
Police in Zimbabwe are warning they do not have enough money to feed people in holding cells around the country. The whole justice system in Zimbabwe is threatened by lack of adequate resources. Although fewer people are being arrested now than in pr...
