Activist launches worldwide campaign to fight climate change Rosanne Skirble | Washington, DC 19 April 2010 Bill McKibben at a rally in New York's Times Square - one of over 5,200 events in 181 countries organized by 350.org for the 'International Da...
It's all around you along a single street in Miami Ted Landphair | Washington, DC 19 April 2010 The food is fresh, Cuban-influenced and not as spicy as one might expect along Calle Ocho. The city of Miami, Florida, is an oasis of swaying palm trees,...
Thousands of search and rescue crews attend a memorial service in front of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City. Building was bombed by Timothy McVeigh who said his act was a protest against the overreach of the federal government (...
Library social worker reaches out to patrons without a job or a place to live Rhonda Miller | San Francisco, California 19 April 2010 Leah Esguerra (right) is a full-time social worker assigned to work with the homeless who frequent the San Francisco...
America's founding fathers decided that a count of all the country's inhabitants should take place every 10 years. The 2010 census is now underway, and people all over the country are being asked to provide information about themselves. This year's c...
Some came to the Washington D.C. area Monday to take out their guns in a show of support for gun rights. Others came for a rally in the shadow of the Washington monument to support the right to keep and bear arms and to protect the Second Amendment....
The health care debate in the United States is far from over despite the passage of health care legislation. Studies show about half of Americans lack confidence in their health care system. Others are pushing for a repeal of the health care legislat...
Pope Benedict XVI is cheered by faithful as he arrive to celebrate a Mass in Floriana, Malta, 18 Apr 2010 The pope met privately with eight Maltese victims of sexual abuse in the Vatican's embassy in Valletta. A statement issued by the Vatican after...
People stand along a street as a hearse carrying the coffin of the late Polish President Lech Kaczynski arrives in Krakw, southern Poland, Sunday, April 18, 2010 About 100,000 Poles turned out for Sunday's state funeral for President Lech Kaczynski a...
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu delivers a speech during a memorial ceremony for fallen soldiers at the Ammunition Hill, a site of a bloody Jerusalem battle in the 1967 war, 18 Apr 2010 On the eve of Israel's 62nd Independence Day, Prime Mi...
Globes showing environmental challenges are lining the National Mall for Earth Day activities. Week-long activities to commemorate the 40th anniversary of Earth Day in the United States have kicked off with an eco-village on the National Mall and gre...
Tens of thousands of people attend a national memorial service in Pilsudski Square in Warsaw, 17 Apr 2010 Sirens wailed and church bells rang as an estimated 100,000 people gathered in the Polish capital to say goodbye to their former president. Many...
Kyrgyzstan's deposed President Kurmanbek Bakiyev at a news conference in the courtyard of his family home, in Teyit, southern Kyrgyzstan, 13 Apr 2010 Kyrgyzstan's interim government is planning to put on trial the deposed president, some members of h...
Iraqi asylum seekers on the remote Australian territory of Christmas Island are continuing a hunger strike Saturday following a similar protest at an immigration detention facility in Sydney earlier this week. Detainees are angry about delays in the...
Iceland's volcano erupted Wednesday and has since been spewing ash several miles into the air. The ash clouds include particles of rock, glass and sand that can get into an aircraft's engine and cause it to stall. Selah Hennessy | London 17 April 201...
