2019-04-23 Sri Lanka: Easter Bombings Answer Attacks in New Zealand
The Islamic State group claimed responsibility today for the Easter attacks in Sri Lanka. A top Sri Lankan official also…
2019-04-23 How Much Money Should be Spent on Historic Buildings?
The fire at Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris has raised questions about the condition of thousands of other cathedrals and…
2019-04-22 Sri Lanka Declares State of Emergency
Sri Lanka is under a state of emergency following bomb attacks at hotels and Christian religious centers in the country…
2019-04-23 Myanmar High Court Rejects Final Appeal of Jailed Journalists
Myanmar’s top court rejected Tuesday the final appeal of two Reuters journalists jailed while working on an investigation into the…
2019-04-22 Drug Problems, Crowded Jails in Iraqi City
The Iraqi city of Basra is struggling to deal with a growing problem: illegal drugs. The drug problem has led…
2019-04-22 Comedian Elected President of Ukraine in Landslide
World leaders congratulated comedian Volodymyr Zelenskiy Monday on being elected president of Ukraine. The country’s Central Election Commission reported that…
2019-04-21 US Business Seeks to Protect Use of Hawaiian Word ‘Aloha’
Is it possible for a business to legally own a word from a native culture and prevent its use by…
2019-04-21 Nigeria’s ‘Twin Town’ Has High Number of Multiple Births
At a dusty playground in southwest Nigeria, school children line up to return to their classrooms. Many of their faces…
2019-04-20 Study Examines How Americans View Birds
A new study released by the Proceedings of the National Academy of Science aims to define “a range of relationships…
2019-04-20 San Francisco to Charge for Driving on Lombard Street
Visitors may soon have to pay as much as $10 to drive down the world-famous Lombard Street in San Francisco,…
2019-04-21 Brazil Tribal Lands Facing New Threat
Ten years ago, the Macuxi people won a legal battle to expel rice planters from their homeland in northern Brazil.…
2019-04-19 Denials of US Immigrant Visas Rise after Little-known Rule Change
Arturo Balbino works as a builder in Texas. On a recent day, he walked into the U.S. consulate in the…
2019-04-20 Program Aims to Train South African Girls in Science Fields
The number of women working in the science, technology, engineering and mathematics, or STEM fields in South Africa has not…
2019-04-18 Mueller Details Trump’s Attempts to Interfere with Investigation
The United States Attorney General William Barr released most of a special government report on Russian interference in the 2016…
2019-04-18 North Korea Wants to Replace Pompeo in Future Talks
North Korea said it no longer wanted to deal with U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo in talks over its…