2014-10-01 US Troops Help to Fight Ebola in Liberia
In recent weeks, many world leaders have called for immediate action against the Ebola virus in West Africa. The United…
2014-10-01 First Ebola Case Reported in U.S.
Ebola has arrived in the United States. But the arrival was not on a flight specially designed to deal with…
2014-10-01 Ferry Investigation Divides South Korea
South Korean lawmakers have agreed to launch a new investigation into the deadly passenger boat accident in April. The agreement…
2014-09-30 US Signs Security Agreement with Afghanistan
The United States has welcomed the signing of a Bilateral Security Agreement with Afghanistan. US officials are calling the agreement,…
2014-09-30 US ‘Green Card’ Lottery Registration Begins
The United States government’s Diversity Immigrant Visa Program opens October 1. The program is known to millions of people around…
2014-09-30 Former US President Jimmy Carter Turns 90
Today — October 1st, 2014 — is the 90th birthday of former U.S. President Jimmy Carter. On this program, we…
2014-09-27 Citizen-Scientists Take Control of Old Satellite
For the first time, the American space agency has given control of one of its spacecraft to a team of…
2014-09-27 Great Photographs from the US Library of Congress
What if you were asked to choose just 730 photographs from among 1.25 million images? And you had just a…
2014-09-27 Land Disputes Lead to Violence in Uganda
More than 700 residents crowd onto a small piece of land in Rwamutonga, a small village outside Hoima. The people…
2014-09-27 Afghan Presidential Candidates Agree to Share Power
This week Afghanistan ended months of dispute over the country’s presidential election. The United States helped negotiate a power-sharing agreement…
2014-09-26 Education, Gender Influence Use of Media in Africa
Recently, the Gallup research group joined with a United States government agency to produce a study about women and media…
2014-09-25 Deforestation Is a Threat to the Amazon
The country of Brazil is home to the world’s largest rainforest – the Amazon. A rainforest is a kind of…
2014-09-23 Cocoa Smuggling Increases in West Africa
People have been illegally transporting, or smuggling, cocoa beans between Ivory Coast and neighboring Ghana for many years. Ivorian growers…
2014-09-24 India Wins the Asian Space Race to Mars
India has won the Asian race to Mars. India successfully placed a spacecraft into orbit of the “Red Planet” early…
2014-09-23 Experts: Population to Grow from 7 to 11 Billion
Our planet is home to about seven billion people. Since the 1990s, population experts have predicted the number would grow…