President Barack Obama meets with residents affected by the BP Deepwater Horizon oil spill in Gulfport, Mississippi, 14 Jun 2010 Meeting with residents and business owners, and accompanied by state and local officials, the president spent the day vis...
The environmental and economic disasters caused by the continuing oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico may be fueling efforts in the U.S. Congress to finish work on a stalled energy and climate change bill. Though the House of Representatives passed its v...
A recent UN report called on the Obama administration to stop unmanned drone strikes against terrorists along Pakistan's border with Afghanistan. The human rights group, Amnesty International, says the United States must clarify rules for using drone...
An Afghan Army soldier on joint-patrol with Canadian soldiers in the Panjwayi district, southwest of Kandahar, Afghanistan, 6 June 2010. The sound of gunfire and yelling punctures the air as Afghan soldiers run through a recent exercise at the Kabul...
More than 300,000 children in Sudan die every year from preventable causes, about 26,000 mothers die each year giving birth, says UNICEF Lisa Schlein | Geneva 14 June 2010 UN mission dubs Southern Sudan as the hungriest place on earth with a recent s...
Fans play their vuvuzelas prior to the World Cup group D soccer match between Serbia and Ghana at the Loftus Versfeld Stadium in Pretoria, 13 June 2010 The World Cup organizing committee chairman, Danny Jordaan, says South Africa 2010 officials will...
Football fans around the world are riveted to World Cup action in South Africa, where key opening matches have sparked revelry, mania, and colorful, elaborate expressions of national pride. Every four years, football fever infects the world, and 2010...
Nigerian fans parade through the Hillsborough neighborhood of Johannesburg before their team's first game in the World Cup tournament. World Cup Fever has taken over the city of Johannesburg. Pubs and restaurants are filled with fans watching the mat...
I really think that if we had tried this five, 10 years ago, it would not have worked Social media organizers in Washington have brought World Cup soccer mania to their neighborhood, by screening Saturday's matches on two big screens at a local publi...
It's for the animals. And the animals, you can't replace them if they are gone forever. The beach will return Concern is growing about the effects of the ongoing oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, and some residents are taking action to try to help. So...
In the more than 20 years since the Cold War ended, the Atlantic Alliance, NATO, has been struggling to redefine itself through expansion and by taking on new missions. Now, the 28-nation organization's identity crisis is entering a new phase, as off...
A roundtable meeting of NATO defense ministers at headquarters in Brussels, 10 June 2010 NATO defense ministers say progress is being made in Afghanistan despite tough resistance from the Taliban insurgency. In a statement as they wrapped up a two-da...
U.S. Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates, meets with U.S. Gen. Stanley McChrystal, the commander of the NATO and U.S. forces in Afghanistan, at NATO headquarter in Brussels, 10 June 2010 The head of NATO forces in Afghanistan General Stanley McChrystal...
Hundreds of thousands of supporters of leading opposition presidential candidate Mir Hossein Mousavi turned out to protest the results of the last June's election at a mass rally in Tehran, Iran (Monday, June 15, 2009) Iran's opposition Green Movemen...
Experts blame the lack of progress in maternal and child health on a severe shortage of doctors, nurses and midwives in the affected countries. Many countries with the highest mother and child death rates continue to fall short, a decade after pledgi...
