By Naomi Schwarz Dakar 15 October 2007 Thomas Sankara, the charismatic former president of West Africa's Burkina Faso who gave the country its name, will be memorialized alongside the celebrations for progress made under the current rule of President...
By George Lewinski Washington 01 June 2007 On June 5th, 1947, U.S. Secretary of State George C. Marshall told the graduating class at Harvard University that Europe and the world were in a perilous state. World War II had devastated the continent and...
By Lisa McAdams Moscow 26 April 2006 Ukrainians participate in a ceremony to commemorate those who died after the Chernobyl nuclear disaster, at the memorial to Chernobyl firefighters in the city of S...
By Elaine Lu San Francisco 17 April 2006 watch Earthquake report San Francisco, one of the most colorful and historic cities in the United States, is about to celebrate the 100th anniversary of a mass...