Vietnam'sDrugRehabCentersUnderFire Rights advocates in Vietnam are criticizing a form of treatment used by the government to rehabilitate illegal drug users and sex workers. In a newly released report, the international human rights group Human Right...
USPostalServiceFacesFinancialDisaster The United States Postal Service is in big financial trouble. In the last ten years the agency has lost 50 percent of its mail volume. Billions of dollars have been lost and the trend is expected to continue. By...
Unemployed Look to President, Congress for Help Job hunters around the United States are struggling to keep up their spirits as they look for work, despite the poor economy. Many watched President Barack Obama's Thursday speech to a joint session of...
HighFoodPricesExpectedtoClimbFurther World food prices remain near record-high levels, according to the latest UN world food price index, and they're expected to climb even higher. The index hit a record in January and has not come down much since. T...
Observers Doubt Burmese Government's Overtures Burma's normally defiant authorities have in recent weeks been welcoming their domestic and international critics for candid discussions. They have also slightly loosened their iron-clad grip on the medi...
Al-Qaida'onthePathtoDefeat,'SaysClinton U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said Friday al-Qaida is on the path to defeat and that the United States will not relent until the job is done. But she added the reported new terrorist threat against Ne...
G20 Experts to Meet on Food Security Solutions G20农业专家将召开食品安全会议 Agricultural experts from the G20 countries will meet next week to find ways to match the latest research and technology to the growing demand for more food. It...
10YearsAfter9/11AfghanistanRemainsatWar Soon after the terrorist attacks on the United States on September 11, 2001, the U.S. and its NATO allies went to war in Afghanistan to drive the Taliban from power and root out al-Qaida terrorists hiding there...
Iran-RussiaArmsDisputeDamagesRelations Iran's decision to sue Russia in the International Court of Justice to try to force the sale of an air defense system deepens the crisis in the relationship between the two countries and underlines a shift in Ru...
WeakJobMarketHitsAfricanAmericansHard President Barack Obama is proposing several measures his administration says will create millions of jobs and stimulate the sluggish economy. The nation's high unemployment rate has hit minority groups in the Uni...
Maternal Health Practioners Advocate Saving Lives at Birth The World Health Organization estimates that every minute, a woman dies during pregnancy and millions of others suffer from infections and disease associated with childbearing. To combat this...
NASA's GRAIL to Map the Moon The U.S. space agency NASA is preparing to launch a new, nearly half-billion dollar lunar mission that will enable scientists to better understand the moon's gravitational field and the lunar interior, from crust to core....
US-Pakistan Joint Raid Viewed as Rare, Hopeful Sign for Troubled Ties Ties between the intelligence agencies of Pakistan and the United States have been severely strained since the killing of Osama bin Laden in a covert U.S. raid in Pakistan in May....
RareGadhafiFootageShowsLibyanDictator'sSofterSide Much of the world has seen the strong, loud and defiant side of the ousted Libyan leader. But there is another side, too. A family man with his granddaughter, recorded on home video found in Tripoli....
US Postal Service on 'Brink of Default' 美国邮政濒临破产边缘 One of America's oldest institutions, the U.S. Postal Service, is teetering on the edge of default and must be radically restructured. That, according to the postmaster general, w...
