Puth La, 62, an ethnic minority Suy woman, standing next to a digger that villagers say is being used by a Singaporean company to destroy thousands of hectares of land they claim as their own in the province of Kampong Speu, south-west of the capital...
Africa's Sahara Desert, as seen from the International Space Station's new seven-windowed cupola Crew members of the U.S. space shuttle Endeavour opened the shutters on the International Space Station's new observation deck Wednesday, revealing a spe...
President Barack Obama announced a bipartisan commission on Thursday to tackle mounting U.S. federal budget deficits that economists say imperil the nation's economic future. The president acted to correct America's long term fiscal imbalances while...
Critics say new airport rules could be discriminatory Mohamed Elshinnawi | Washington, DC 18 February 2010 There are a whole lot of things that could be done without sacrificing people's privacy, without - however inadvertently - sending a message th...
James Cameron, an Academy Award nominee for Best Director for 'Avatar,' gestures for photographers at the Academy Awards Nominees luncheon in Beverly Hills, California, 15 Feb 2010 Hollywood is gearing up for the Academy Awards, also known as the Osc...
Haunting documentary explores devastating encounter Penelope Poulou 18 February 2010 The Oath, a documentary by filmmaker Laura Poitras, opens a window into the world of al-Qaida, Osama Bin Laden, the detention center at Guantanamo Bay and the image...
Community leaders say Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s final campaign to bring about social justice won't be forgotten. One of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s final campaigns was to support striking sanitation workers who wanted higher wages and union repr...
Homeowners facing foreclosure come to a courthouse in hopes to renegotiate their mortgages When the U.S. economy fell into recession two years ago, millions of Americans began defaulting on their home mortgages, leaving many cities with neighborhoods...
Today there are a number of bottled drinks on the market in the United States that are considered healthy. But that wasn't the case 10 or so years ago, when a company called Honest Tea created the first healthier bottled tea. The firm was co-founded...
Some in New Mexico do and are mystified and annoyed Ted Landphair | Washington, DC 17 February 2010 No one has yet figured out why, or whether, pleasant, somewhat remote Taos, New Mexico, is visited by a strange hum, audible to only a few. ...scienti...
A 15 Feb 2010 photo of the golden mask of Egypt's famous King Tutankhamun displayed at the Egyptian museum in Cairo The DNA testing of several prominent Egyptian mummies has revealed the identities of the mother and the father of famous boy king Tuta...
Sierra Leone hopes to become Africa's biggest exporter of iron ore with the opening of a new mine in the central Tonkolili district. Geologists say the new mine holds more then five billion tons of iron ore. Before mining can begin at Tonkolili, geol...
One of Vancouver's biggest attractions is shopping at the Hudson's Bay company store. The only official Vancouver Olympic store. In downtown Vancouver, one of the biggest attractions is not an Olympic venue - it's a department store. The Hudson's Bay...
Vancouver Winter Games officials have made some major changes to the viewing area by the Olympic cauldron that sits on a downtown waterfront plaza. The changes came after a huge public outcry. An unsightly tall, chain-link fence some 50 meters from t...
A security guard looks on at the Major Dhyanchand hockey stadium, in New Delhi, India, 24 Jan 2010. The revamped Major Dhyanchand National Stadium is the first among the Commonwealth Games venues to be opened and will host the hockey World Cup from 2...
