Freetown, Sierra Leone 02 November 2009 Each year, half a million pregnant women in the developing world die of complications during labor, and about six million children are stillborn or die within a week of birth. For the next three weeks, well be...
Victoria Switzer and her husband, Jim, are building what they hoped would be their retirement home in the rural hamlet of Dimock, Pennsylvania, in the eastern U.S. When Cabot Oil Gas offered a lease for the natural gas under their land a few years ag...
John Major says the current inquiry into the war raises some very big, important questions regarding the British government's stated aims for invading Iraq Tom Rivers | London 02 January 2010 Tony Blair, 9 Dec 2009 (file photo) Tony Blair's already t...
Ruins remain a year after Israel launched Operation Cast Lead, a 22-day ground offensive in the Gaza Strip It has been a year since Israel launched Operation Cast Lead, a 22-day ground offensive in the Gaza Strip. Palestinian leaders and human rights...
Nearly a dozen people have been killed in fighting in central Somalia between a Sufi Muslim group and al-Qaida-linked al-Shabab militants Alisha Ryu | Nairobi 02 January 2010 Radical Islamists in Somalia Ahlu-Sunna spokesman Sheik Abdullahi Sheik Abu...
Photo: AP Fireworks flash over Sydney Opera House during New Year celebrations, 01 Jan 2010 Starting at the International Date line in the mid-Pacific and spreading from east to west, crowds around Asia led the world in ringing in the New Year. One o...
An Andean priest in Lima, Peru The media often portray fireworks as how much of the world marks the start of a new year but many cultures also turn to their religious and cultural roots. Shinto shrines in Japan become the center of a ritual to leave...
Photo: AP Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak, right, meets with Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the Presidential palace in Cairo, Egypt, 29 Dec, 2009. Middle East diplomacy is moving into high gear this month in a fresh effort to revive s...
The IMPACT registry stands for 'Improving Pediatric and Adult Congenital Treatment' and includes information about patients who do not undergo open heart surgery. Often they undergo catheterization, a procedure which uses a catheter, or narrow tube,...
As an alternative to expensive helicopters or traditional jets, some law enforcement agencies are experimenting with lightweight craft that stay airborne using just a parachute. Steve Mort | Palm Bay, Florida 01 January 2010 The Palm Bay Police Depar...
Senegalese musician Baaba Maal is using an annual music festival to focus on education in the country's remote northern regions. At Baaba Maal's fourth annual Festival les Blues du Fleuve, musicians from around West Africa gathered along the Senegal...
Photo: AP People transport a victim of suicide bombing at a local hospital in Bannu, Pakistan, 01 Jan 2010 A suicide bomber set off an explosive-laden vehicle on a field during a volleyball match in northwestern Pakistan, killing at least 88 people....
Photo: AP Photo taken by an individual not employed by the Associated Press and obtained by the AP outside Iran shows a female Iranian protestor holding a poster of opposition leader Mir Hossein Mousavi, during anti-government protest in Tehran, Iran...
Photo: AP This file photo shows a technician walking along the perimeter of a nuclear reactor head at the Ignalina nuclear power plant in Visaginas, Lithuania, 15 Dec 2009 Lithuania's Soviet-built nuclear power plant was shut down late Thursday as pa...
Photo: AP Trucks transport cargo at a container terminal in the port of Dalian, China, 11 Sep 2009 Economists see the start of a free-trade agreement between China and the Association of Southeast Asian Nations as a crucial spur to Asia's economic gr...
