An unidentified resident stands in front of a poor apartment in Lagos, Nigeria Tuesday, Oct. 17, 2006. The International Day of the Eradication of Poverty is marked worlwide Tuesday with the aim of eradicating absolute poverty and reducing overall po...
The United Nations refugee agency says it is alarmed at the large numbers of women who continue to be victims of rape and sexual violence in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). The UNHCR says more than one third of recorded cases of rape, in the...
Iraq's Electoral Commission is preparing for a manual recount of ballots cast in Baghdad during the March 7 parliamentary elections. An Iraqi court announced the recount on Monday after Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki claimed widespread vote fraud in...
The debate spurred a surge in voter registration, especially among young people. Some polls are showing the three parties running even. Jennifer Glasse | London 22 April 2010 Britain's Conservative David Cameron leader (center) speaks during a first...
98 percent of the country's forests have been cut down Steve Baragona | Petit Guave, Haiti 22 April 2010 Restoring Haiti's hillsides with contour canals, vetiver grass, and trees Edgar Griffin has lived on this hillside outside the town of Petit Guav...
Better known for its diamond fields, gold exploration and mining in Sierra Leone is on the increase. The British company, Cluff Gold, has announced it will build a mechanized gold mine in the southern Kangari hills after finding large deposits of gol...
Joe DeCapua 22 April 2010 We could establish that children who lost their mother before the age of 15 had typically a year less schooling compared to children who didnt experience these kind of events... Its estimated that 15 million children have lo...
Salt is believed to be the single most harmful thing in our food, contributing to high blood pressure For years doctors have been telling patients with high blood pressure to cut down on the amount of salt in their diet. Now a prestigious panel of ex...
Almost 700 roof-mounted panels help to power the environmental-studies building at Oberlin College in Ohio, which is routinely included in top-20 lists of America's greenest colleges. The nickname of sports teams at Tulane University in New Orleans i...
President Obama also directed attention to an ongoing and enormously sensitive issue for Americans - multi-million dollar salaries, bonuses and other compensation paid to industry executives. Dan Robinson | White House 22 April 2010 US President Bara...
There were 12 more trials of Nazis in Nuremberg after the first (and most famous) international criminal trial. Whitney Harris was the last living courtroom prosecutor from that initial proceeding. The last surviving courtroom prosecutor from the fir...
This 02 Oct 2009 file photo shows Juan Antonio Samaranch, the former IOC president, speaking during the Madrid 2016 bid presentation during the 121st International Olympic Committee session at the Bella Center in Copenhagen Former International Olymp...
Funeral of murdered white supremacist Eugene Terre'Blanche in Ventersdorp, South Africa, 09 Apr 2010 In South Africa, racial tensions have been heightened in some sectors of society following the murder of white supremacist leader Eugene Terre'Blanch...
A Sudanese woman casts her vote as representatives of candidates observe at a polling station during the second day of Sudan's first multiparty elections in decades, 12 April 2010 An online platform designed to facilitate independent monitoring of th...
Iranian Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki, right, and his Turkish counterpart Ahmet Davutoglu, shake hands at the end of their press conference in Tehran, Iran, 20 Apr 2010 Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu underlined his country's oppositio...
