US Housing Prices, And Confidence, Rise Five years after the collapse of the U.S. housing market, Americans seem ready to buy again. Pending home sales are up 7 percent over last year, foreclosures are at a seven-year low - and the number of homes fo...
New Documentary Explores Aluminum's 'Dark Side' Aluminum is everywhere, including in products that make us feel better, safer and cleaner. Like antacids, sunscreen and antiperspirants. But Austrian filmmaker Bert Ehgartner says theres another side to...
Chewing Khat Increasingly Popular Among Ethiopians Khat's popularity is growing as more members of the middle and upper classes are chewing the leaf. The natural stimulant is considered to be mildly addictive and the leaf has become the country's num...
Iraq War: Mission Accomplished? The Mission Accomplished banner across the bridge of the U.S. Navy aircraft carrier Abraham Lincoln, helped President George W. Bush convey a sense of achievement to Americans less than two months after the invasion of...
Gay NBA Player Breaks Athletic Barrier Jason Collins has spent 12 years in the NBA. But his playing career has never drawn as much public attention as his recent revelation. In an interview with ABC News, Collins said his decision to go public with h...
Improving North-South Korean Relations May Depend on China, US Says South Korea's military remains on alert for a missile strike from the North. As long as North Korea does not completely withdraw its missiles, our army will keep our security posture...
Better Coverage of Rape is Needed A recent editorial in the Journal for Public Health calls on the media to do a better job of reporting on sexual violence against women. It says, too often, the media focus on sensational crimes and fail to reveal th...
US Holocaust Museum Contemplates Future Without Survivors They once were treated as less than human, but here these Holocaust survivors were heroes. And that meant a lot to Tamara Wohl, who spent the first years of her life in a concentration camp. I...
Syrian Rebels Eye EU Oil Trade In his backyard north of the city of Idlib, Ahmed Abu Taleb and his friend use handpumps to transfer a barrel of crude oil into a tank. A fire burns in a pit dug below the tank. Then drip by drip, through a simple syste...
Makeshift Schools Help Mumbai Slum Children Beat the Odds Behind the greenery at this Mumbai public park, a mother of two is spending her morning teaching the basics of English spelling. Aparna Kanda understands how crucial these few hours are for th...
Emergency Response Grows in Chad Emergency water supplies are being rushed to southeastern Chad where about 50-thousand people have fled fighting in Sudans Darfur region. Several Arab tribes have been battling for control of mining operations there....
