Iowa Voters Focus on Economy 爱荷华州选民集中关心经济问题 As Republican presidential hopefuls campaign in the Midwesteern state of Iowa are encountering voters increasingly concerned about the state of the economy. The recent debate abo...
Mogadishu Offers Little Comfort to Somalis Arriving From Famine Famine is forcing Somalis by the hundreds of thousands to leave their homes in search of survival. Some are fleeing across the border to refugee camps in Kenya and Ethiopia, where intern...
Lower Oil Price Helps Consumers But Market Volatility Remains In recent months, crude oil prices have experienced their sharpest drop since the 2008 financial crisis, and now stand at around $80 a barrel. Alongside one of the main highways leading in...
Experts Say Belief in Paranormal Common in US Surveys show that more than two thirds of Americans accept the existence of ghosts, visitors from outer space, astrology and other paranormal phenomena. While the more sophisticated might think of these p...
US Scientists Expand Scope of HIV Vaccine Study The worlds largest ongoing HIV vaccine study has been expanded to consider multiple ways a vaccine might boost immune response to the AIDS virus. The U.S. Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (N...
Cameroonian Develops Mobile Telephone Application To Fight Corruption Baksheesh in Arabic is money offered to crooked officials to get rid of red-tape. And so NoBakchich implies no more bribes. Thats the name of a mobile telephone application conceiv...
Cameroon, Chad Team Up to Protect Wildlife The pact was signed by both governments in early August. It stipulates that the Central African neighbors will jointly manage over 300,000 hectares of protected area. They will be patrolled by an increased n...
WHO Says TB Blood Test Inaccurate The World Health Organization is urging many low and middle income countries to ban the use of currently-available commercial blood tests to detect active tuberculosis. This is the first time WHO has issued an explic...
Markets Erase Gains, Dow Loses 519 Points Stock volatility continued on Wall Street Wednesday as markets turned their attention once more to the weak global economy. After an impressive rally Tuesday, fears about high levels of public debt in the U.S...
New Shelling Reported in Disputed Korean Waters South Korea says that it has twice exchanged artillery fire with North Korea in western frontier waters. No casualties are reported. Second round, artillery fired South Korean military officials say a s...
Study: Upper-Atmosphere Particles Slow Pace of Global Warming A recent study finds tiny particles suspended high in Earths atmosphere are having a greater impact on global climate than previously believed. The airborne particles, known as aerosols, a...
US Toddlers Get Jumpstart on Fitness As she throws a ball through a hoop in her weekly fitness class, Bridget might not know she is getting a workout. But her mother, Catherine Byrne, does. She wants her three-year-old to get an early start on stayin...
Liberal Arts Students Tackle Solar Home Challenge For college students around the world, the race is on to design and build the most affordable, innovative and attractive solar-powered house. Teams contending for the top prize will reconstruct their...
Ivory Coast Refugees Living With Former Liberian Refugees Bigger refugee camps are going up along Liberia's eastern border for more than 150,000 people who fled Ivory Coast's political crisis, earlier this year. Many Ivorian refugees are living in lo...
Withdrawal of al-Shabab Offers Hope to Somalia's Transitional Government Somalia's Transitional Federal Government (TFG) is offering amnesty to remaining insurgents in Mogadishu following the withdrawal of the Islamist group al-Shabab. But it is vowi...
