Solar-Powered Oxygen Saves Lives of Somali Children Somali and World Health Organization doctors say a medical oxygen system powered by the sun is helping save lives at a hospital in central Somalia. The solar-powered oxygen system is the first of it...
China Aims to Make Winter Sports Popular with Olympics With the 2022 Winter Olympic Games in Beijing, the ruling Communist Party hopes to popularize winter sports as exercise and to make money. The Games will take place from February 4 to 20. Many pe...
A nationwide strike in Myanmar marked the one-year anniversary of the army's takeover of the government. Protests and violence across the Southeast Asian nation have raised international concern over the struggle for power. Images and video on social...
A nationwide strike in Myanmar marked the one-year anniversary of the army's takeover of the government. Protests and violence across the Southeast Asian nation have raised international concern over the struggle for power. Images and video on social...
A letter written to a 12-year old girl in Lithuania was delivered in December, almost 51 years after it was sent. Now in her 60s, Genovefa Klonovska said after being handed the letter, I thought that someone was pranking me. A prank is a trick that i...
US, Russia Clash over Ukraine at UN Security Council Russia and the United States clashed sharply as the United Nations Security Council met Monday to discuss troop buildup along the Ukraine border. Russian Ambassador Vasily Nebenzia accused the U.S....
Aid Workers Rush to Help Afghans in Freezing Weather The United Nations is trying to help hundreds of thousands of people in critical need of food and other aid this year in Afghanistan. Severe winter weather in the country is adding to a growing eco...
United States Army officer Khallid Shabazz is one of a very small number of American military chaplains who are Muslim. Colonel Shabazz is also the highest-level Muslim chaplain in the U.S. military, says the Army Times newspaper. Although he has had...
US High Court Enters Culture War The United States Supreme Court has again placed itself in the middle of America's most divisive issues. Last week, the nation's highest court agreed to hear a case on the admissions policies of Harvard University and...
Walmart, America's largest goods store, recently announced that it bought a share of the agriculture company, Plenty. Plenty specializes in vertical farming. In a statement, Walmart official Charles Redfield said the partnership will help the company...
