Rising Gold Prices Spark Demand Every new piece of bad economic news and every plunge on Wall Street sparks fears that the worst is yet to come. As a result, many people are turning to one investment they feel they can trust. Gold chains, gold bangle...
Prosperity in Turkey Creates Iftar Divide In Turkey, the Islamic fasting month of Ramadan has put the spotlight on the increasing divide between rich and poor. The country's growing affluent class, a product of a decade of unprecedented economic grow...
Athletic, Muslim, Fashionable - a Tale of the Sports Hijab Female Muslim athletes who observe a strict Islamic dress code sometimes face the question of whether they will be allowed to participate in major competitions -- with their heads and most of...
Some Looking Forward to Recovery of Libyan Oil Production Although fighting continues in parts of Libya, and a bit of uncertainty remains, some are already beginning to look at the prospects of recovery. Oil companies, and countries that rely on impo...
Revolution School Teaches How to Overthrow a Dictator Veterans of the uprising in Serbia, which overthrew President Slobodan Milosevic, are running workshops for opposition groups around the world on how to bring down a dictator. On the outskirts of...
Gold Prices Luring Many to Start Prospecting As gold prices continue to rise around the world, there is renewed interest in panning for gold in certain parts of the United States. In the late 1800s, the state of Virginia had a thriving gold-mining in...
Tripoli: Fighting Empties the Seaside Capital Driving into Tripoli is to drive into a ghost city. It looks like a set for a Hollywood apocalypse film. Instead of a bustling seaside capital of 1.5 million people, we drove Thursday past kilometer and k...
Scientists Target Mosquito-Borne Illnesses Of all the disease-spreading insects in the world, the mosquito poses the greatest menace, according to the World Health Organization (WHO). As if to underscore that threat, two mosquito-borne viral diseases...
Scientists Point to Possible Health Effects of Cell Phones This past May, in a major policy shift, the World Health Organization said electromagnetic fields produced by mobile phones are possibly carcinogenic. Although the International Association f...
Power Your Laptop by Taking a Walk Scientists at the University of Wisconsin-Madison have developed a technology that turns human motion into electricity. In this week's journal Nature Communications, they describe how to power a cell phone or other...
Libyan Uprising Boosts Morale in Mideast The apparent victory by rebels in Libya is sending shockwaves throughout the Middle East. An uprising that appeared to be lost is boosting the morale of protesters facing other Arab governments that have respo...
Analysts Assess Future US-Libya Ties While fighting continues in Libya, the international community is already looking ahead to a post-Gadhafi era. For now, U.S. officials are providing few specifics about a future American role in what Washington ho...
Scientists, Regulators Look to Save Smaller Fish in Marine Food Chain Perhaps you've had salmon, tuna, or swordfish for dinner recently. Or maybe it's on the menu tonight. Every big fish that lands on your plate got that big by eating lots of little...
Alabama City Remembered for Climactic Battle of Civil Rights Movement Sunday, August 28, in Washington, President Obama leads the nation in dedicating a new national memorial to the late civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. King was a southern...
Mississippi Coast Still Rebuilding 6 Years After Katrina When Hurricane Katrina raged across the Gulf of Mexico six years ago, it devastated the100 kilometers of the Mississippi coast. Houses, schools, libraries and hotels became piles of broken wood...
