Alumni work to save buildings designed to educate rural African Americans Susan Logue Koster | Dillwyn, VA 25 February 2010 Watch: Logue Koster Report MP4 Wilbert Dean was moved to save his school when he saw it was being used as a trash dump. Relate...
An up-and-coming rock group from Brooklyn, New York has launched a collaboration with local artists in Mali. At Studio Bogolan in Mali's capital city of Bamako, Jeremiah Lockwood is working on the guitar part for a song on a new album by his band, th...
The Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) perform their Musical Ride show in Surrey, British Columbia, not far from the site of the 2010 Vancouver Winter Olympics The Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) are a symbol of Canadian pride. Their character...
Congressional representation, billions in government aid depend on once-a-decade count Art Chimes | Washington, DC 25 February 2010 Census technology has come a long way since punch cards were used in the 1940/1960 census. Time again for our Website...
Asia's plastic industry is growing, with China and India challenging established producers such as Thailand. Now, there is increasing attention to the environmental impact of plastics. Both environmentalists and industry executives agree biodegradabl...
Renee Smith-Valade is the Vice President of Communications for Vancouver Organizing Committee (VANOC) Staging an Olympics is a huge undertaking, and so is dealing with all of the international media which come to the host city to cover the Games. The...
Sochi Mayor Anatoly Pakhomov (l) and Dzhambulat Khatuov, the first vice-governor of the Krasnodar Region Although the Vancouver Games have not ended, the 2014 Games in Sochi, Russia are in the news. At a special ceremony Tuesday, Vancouver and Britis...
South Korea is ablaze with excitement for the Olympic debut on Wednesday, Feb. 24 of Kim Yu-Na - a widespread favorite to bring back the country's first gold medal in figure skating. The corporate world has already caught Yuna fever. Even before her...
Rwanda is actually at the leading edge of developing nations in tapping these technologies to advance health and health care. - Susan Dentzer Information technology has come more slowly to the area of health care perhaps than some other fields. But t...
before Barack Obama became president, he was a community organizer on Chicago's south side Long before Barack Obama came to Washington as a U.S. senator, then won election as the first African-American president of the United States, he was a communi...
About 10 million foreigners work in the Gulf states. But, with Dubai's economic boom ground to a halt, foreign workers - including many from South Asia - are being sent home often to uncertain futures. Raymond Thibodeaux | Kochi, India 24 February 20...
Zimbabwean women carry groceries as they walk towards the Beitbridge Border Post after their shopping trips in Musina, South Africa (2008 file photo) Informal cross-border trade contributes significantly to the economies of southern African nations -...
Kuala Lumpur police officer inspects the damage to the Metro Tabernacle Church which was destroyed by a fire bomb a little after midnight in the Kuala Lumpur suburb of Desa Melawati, Malaysia, 08 Jan 2010 Recently, a series of attacks on Christian ch...
Akio Toyoda entered a packed congressional hearing room to deliver a simple message: I am deeply sorry for any accidents that Toyota drivers have experienced, said Akio Toyoda. The Toyota CEO acknowledged that the public's confidence in the company t...
Ecology is becoming more and more a question of economy: how much would it cost to reduce emissions; how much would we save by weatherproofing buildings. But analysts meeting in Bali for a summit on the environment say that, to save the planet, human...
