Dan Robinson | White House 02 April 2010 President Barack Obama speaks during a visit to Charlotte, N.C., 02 Apr 2010 President Barack Obama is pointing to the latest monthly U.S. government employment report saying it shows his policies are continui...
Christians around the world are observing Good Friday, marking the crucifixion of Jesus Christ. Robert Berger | Jerusalem 02 April 2010 Christians pilgrims hold wooden crosses as they walk past a Jewish man wearing a prayer shawl through Jerusalem's...
Joe DeCapua 02 April 2010 Kenya has announced it will re-double efforts to control diarrheal diseases, one of the biggest killers of children under age five. Among the causes are unsafe water, as well as poor sanitation and hygiene. Kenyan ministries...
Sara Schonhardt | Jakarta 01 April 2010 Ginan Koesmayadi, HIV advocate, soccer coach Because drug users often engage in dangerous behaviors like sharing dirty needles, they are at more risk of becoming infected with HIV, the virus that causes AIDS. M...
Locals joke that Yemeni trees are actually blue and red, the color of the plastic bags that you get when you buy qat, a mildly narcotic leaf, and the Yemeni national past time. Heather Murdock | Sana'a, Yemen 01 April 2010 A view of the Sana'a seen f...
Villagers gather in front of a dam near the village of Labgar in northern Senegal on 12 Nov 2009. There is little to show for it apart from small acacia shrubs, but Senegal's leader believes in a Great Green Wall that will stem desertification across...
Indian students take lessons from their teacher inside a classroom at a school in Calcutta, India, 1Apr 2010 Indian Government Fails to Build Political Consensus on Women's Reservation Bill In India, a landmark law which makes education a fundamental...
For more than two decades a Belgian man named Rom Houben was misdiagnosed as being in a vegetative state, following a car accident. Then doctors discovered through a brain scan that he was conscious and possessed normal brain function. At first it se...
Film offers first glimpse of space telescope's breathtaking deep space images in IMAX 3D Penelope Poulou | Washington, DC 01 April 2010 Astronaut John Grunsfeld is positioned on a foot restraint on the end of Atlantis' remote manipulator system and a...
Hundreds of American high school students design and build robots that can score soccer goals Julie Taboh | Washington, DC 01 April 2010 Nathan Hicks, (left) FIRST competitor, with his mentor, Stewart Ocheltree, expects to return again next year, win...
Police officers escort Ricardo Valles de la Rosa, right, to a court hearing in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, 30 Mar 2010 In Juarez, Mexico, authorities say a suspect they detained last week in connection with the March 13 murder of two US citizens has told...
Covered in prayer shawls, ultra-orthodox Jewish men of the Cohanim Priestly caste participate in a blessing during the Jewish holiday of Passover at the Western Wall, Judaism's holiest site, in Jerusalem's Old City, 1 Apr 2010 Jewish and Christian pi...
Russian President Dmitri Medvedev (R) and officials observe a minute of silence for victims of this week's suicide bombings, in Mahachkala, the capital of Dagestan, a province in Russia's volatile North Caucasus, 01 April 2010 President Dmitri Medved...
In the wake of the subway bombings in Moscow, public transport systems seem vulnerable. London's system is one of the largest and most complex in the world. Officials in the British capital have long worked to keep the transport system safe, but have...
This is the heartland of Roman Catholicism. The Church has more than one billion followers worldwide. But now the Vatican is besieged by allegations of sexual abuse and of a cover up by senior clergy as well as questions about Pope Benedict XVI and h...
