If you've ever hurt yourself - bumped a leg or arm while walking, maybe - you might have instinctively grabbed the place that hurt, and that seemed to ease the pain. Now, new research on pain and self touch explores why that is. To study the phenomen...
A showdown is looming in the Middle East with a 10-month freeze on Israeli settlement construction due to expire on Sunday. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is under pressure from his hawkish coalition partners to resume building in the West...
A new study shows community health workers can effectively and safely treat malaria and pneumonia with just a little bit of extra training. In many rural areas throughout sub-Saharan Africa, an important primary medical resource is the network of vol...
Widely viewed as an emerging world power, Brazil chooses a new leader October 3. If pre-election polls are accurate, outgoing President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva's hand-picked nominee is favored to succeed him and become Brazil's first female leader....
Robert Cohen knows a thing or two about photography. He's a staff photographer for the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, one of America's most respected newspapers. One day this past August, he set off to shoot photos at the Missouri State Fair in Sedalia. Fa...
A prestigious Indonesian Islamic theologian is traveling to Europe to promote the country's tolerant, pluralist interpretation of Islam and counter the violent ideology of radical extremists. The tour is organized by groups that promote pluralism and...
The commander of the new U.S. Cyber Command, Army General Keith Alexander, said the Pentagon's vast computer system is probed by potential enemies a quarter-of-a-million times every hour and needs to be protected, especially in a time of war. Alexand...
An international HIV/AIDS advocacy group says the United Nations has failed the women of the Democratic Republic of Congo. AIDS-Free World says it's time for the U.N. to stop passing resolutions on the Congo and take action. The estimated number of r...
Ben Carter Powdered material called dry water, could provide a new way to store carbon dioxide in an effort to fight global warming. Dry water looks a lot like fine white sand, which isn't surprising since what makes it dry is that each tiny water dr...
In Kenya, the specter of drought is never far from the minds of the millions who make their living on the farm. Agriculture is Kenya's most important product. The industry employs nearly three quarters of the country's workers and accounts for almost...
Senior U.S. diplomats say there are some signs from Mr. Ahmadinejad and other Iranian officials that Tehran may be willing to resume a dialogue this autumn, and that the major powers are also ready to re-engage. The comments came after an hour-long I...
Chocolate lovers around the world take note: two separate groups of scientists have unraveled the genetic code of your favorite sweet. It's good news for the millions of small farmers in Africa, Asia and Latin America whose livelihoods depend on the...
The Thai cargo ship MV Sun Sea arrived on Vancouver Island in Canada last month, carrying nearly 500 Tamils fleeing Sri Lanka. They claim to have faced murder, kidnapping and extortion back home and are now seeking refugee status. The Canadian govern...
Yemen's government says four of its soldiers have been killed in a continuing offensive against suspected members of al Qaida in the Arabian Peninsula. The government has laid siege to a southern town in a bid to capture the suspects, thought to numb...
Jordanian-born soccer coach Luma Mufleh runs a refugee support organization called Fugees Family in a community outside of Atlanta, Georgia. The organization has won wide praise for its work in helping refugee children avoid gang violence and drugs b...
