A merchant locking his shop to avoid getting caught violating the Maoist's strike, in Kathmandu, 3 May 2010 Related Links See more pictures of the strike here A power struggle in Nepal between the government of Prime Minister Madhav Kumar Nepal and t...
A Unified Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist) supporter dances during an indefinite nationwide general strike by Maoist in Kathmandu on 2 May 2010 Nepal on Monday faces a third consecutive day of disruption of civic life as a nationwide strike called b...
President Barack Obama is briefed by National Incident Commander U.S. Coast Guard Commandant Adm. Thad Allen in Venice, La., as he visits the Gulf Coast region affected by the BP (British Petroleum) oil well spill, Sunday, May 2, 2010. President Bara...
Nigerian police are searching for the suspects in the killings of three journalists in two separate incidents on 24 April. Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) Africa program coordinator Tom Rhodes says police so far have not been able to assign mo...
Peter Heinlein | Tigray Region, Ethiopia 02 May 2010 With three weeks to go before Ethiopia elects a new parliament, one opposition candidate has been murdered. Another's house has been attacked with grenades. Both incidents occurred in the mountaino...
I love cricket, and I wanted to do something for my country because I come here Twelve teams from around the world are competing in this year's international tournament for one-day cricket matches, the Twenty20 World Cup. While the presence of perenn...
Labour's Prime Minister Gordon Brown, right, Conservative Party leader David Cameron, left, and Liberal Democrat Party leader Nick Clegg, take part in Britain's third televised election debate in Birmingham, England, Thursday, April 29, 2010. British...
This week on Our World: Geneticists find new clues to a puzzling disease ... the fungus that's killing off bats ... and the coming increase in hazardous electronic waste... WILLIAMS: By around 2030, we're looking at potentially a billion e-waste comp...
Time again for our Website of the Week, when we showcase interesting and innovative online destinations. The World Bank lends money to promote development, and to help achieve its goals it collects a lot of data. For years, the World Bank has been on...
Scientists target tiny fossils in Martian soil in NASA's search for extraterrestrial life Rosanne Skirble | Washington, DC 30 April 2010 A proposed robotic lab would carry instruments for identifying and measuring the chemical building blocks for lif...
Jennifer Lopez as Zoe in The Back-Up Plan Singer and actress Jennifer Lopez did not made any movies for the past couple of years while she took time out for the birth of her twins. Now she's back on screen with a romantic comedy about a mother-to-be...
Party Heard Around the World is Lonestar's first new album in four years. It's also the group's first release with lead vocalist Cody Collins, who replaced Richie McDonald in 2007. Lonestar has sold more than 10 million albums since 1995. Their bigge...
A family gathers for the funeral of their father; but sibling rivalries and long-hidden secrets turn it from a solemn remembrance into a madcap free-for-all in Death at a Funeral, the American remake of a 2007 British farce. Brian, who is this? You k...
Elvis Presley once said, My favorite part of the business is a live concert. After a long break from touring, Elvis made a triumphant return to the stage that confirmed his status as one of the era's most exciting live performers. Those landmark conc...
Sky Above Clouds III/Above the Clouds III, 1963 I found I could say things with color and shapes that I couldn't say any other way - things I had no words for. Georgia O'Keeffe, American artist, 1887-1986 Related Links The Phillips Collection The Geo...
