US Army special forces Lt. General Kenneth Keen (L) chats with a refugee family in a makeshift shelter camp near the Presidential palace in Port-au-Prince (File) The commander of U.S. military relief efforts in Haiti said Wednesday that the operation...
France's President Nicolas Sarkozy greets an unidentified Red Cross nurse with Haitian earthquake survivors during a visit of the makeshift tents on The Champ de Mars in Port au Prince, 17 Feb 2010 The aid promised by French President Nicolas Sarkozy...
NATO's new strategy in Afghanistan is part military offensive, part training the Afghan security forces, part fostering civil society and part talking with at least some members of the Taliban, to entice them to join the government side. But, talking...
Malaysian opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim leaves the High court in Kuala Lumpur on February 8, 2010 In Malaysia the sodomy trial of opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim is to resume after the Court of Appeals rejected a motion to strike down the charges....
A Pakistani man reads an Urdu-language evening newspaper reporting the capture of a top Taliban commander at a news stand in Karachi, 16 Feb 2010 As the U.S.-led coalition targets a major Taliban stronghold in Afghanistan, U.S. officials say they hav...
Palestinian Fayeq al-Mabhouh sits in front of posters of his brother and Hamas commander Mahmoud al-Mabhouh (L and R), who was assassinated in Dubai, and Hamas member Mohammed Hussein Mabhouh in the family house in Jebaliya, Gaza Strip, 16 Feb 2010 I...
In this photo taken 05 Aug 2005, an S-300 surface-to-air missile blasts off at the Ashuluk firing range, in Astrakhan region, 1280 km south of Moscow, Russia. The S-300 , similar to the US Patriot missile, is capable of shooting down aircraft, cruise...
Iran is reacting sharply to U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's remarks that the Persian state is becoming a military dictatorship. Iran's supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, accuses Clinton of spreading lies and the United States of turnin...
British Charities Launch Campaign Advocating Tax on Banks to Aid Poor, Environment Wednesday marks the beginning of Lent, the day many Christians around the world begin a traditional fast before Easter, this year for 46 days. Custom also has it that...
A new book explains how the communication and renewable energy revolutions can determine the future survival of earth Faiza Elmasry | Washington, DC 16 February 2010 We are at a turning point in human history, says futurist Jeremy Rifkin, and how we...
Dr. David Wilber performs a procedure called catheter ablation to treat patients with atrial fibrillation at Loyola University Medical Center in Illinois A relatively new procedure is proving to be more effective in treating patients with irregular h...
The $23 million International Civil Rights Museum in Greensboro, North Carolina is located at the site of a famous 1960 civil rights lunch counter protest. ...the more these important stories are told, the better we are at understanding who we are as...
Small lifestyle changes make big difference for planet Rosanne Skirble | Washington, DC 16 February 2010 The Stokes from Falls Church, Virginia, say what they are doing is right for the planet and the pocketbook. Watch: Skirble Report MP4 Related Lin...
The fastest train in the US, known as Acela, reaches speeds of 241 kilometers per hour and only operates between Washington, New York and Boston Europe and Asia have enjoyed high speed passenger trains for years, but the United States has lagged behi...
It will be a great tragedy for humanity if research with chimpanzees were stopped. Chimpanzees are our closest animal relative. So close, in fact, that 98 percent of a chimpanzee's DNA is identical to that of humans. The highly intelligent primates s...
