2014-11-18 Ferguson Church Helps Community Deal With Race Relations
The city of Ferguson is just outside of St. Louis, in the U.S. Midwest state of Missouri. Many white residents…
2014-11-18 Activists Urge Switzerland to Freeze North Korean Assets
Twenty North Korean defectors urged Switzerland to block all assets of the North Korean leadership immediately. The 20 have fled…
2014-11-18 Farm Visitors Increase Farm profits
As the weather cools across the United States, a growing number of Americans visit farms. They harvest apples, enjoy hay…
2014-11-17 Hackers Attack US State Department Computers
The U.S. State Department has closed its public email system and websites after a suspected attack by computer criminals called…
2014-11-17 US Medical Supplies Donated Overseas
Every year, American hospitals and medical centers are left with thousands of kilograms of medical supplies that never get used.…
2014-11-16 Billionaires Grow in Numbers, Influence
They are the same as you and me in many ways. But in one important way they are very different.…
2014-11-16 Money, Time Needed to Stop Lord’s Resistance Army
African Union officials say the AU is making progress in its fight against the Lord’s Resistance Group. But officials say…
2014-11-15 Three Cambodian Activists Sentenced to Prison
A court in Cambodia has sentenced three more activists to a year in prison. The sentences were announced just a…
2014-11-14 Entertainer David Bowie and the Berlin Wall
David Bowie is a British singer/songwriter who remains one of the recognizable singers in the world of pop/rock music. Beginning…
2014-11-13 American Filmmaker ‘Point and Shoot’ in Libya
The story sounds like a work of fiction: A young American filmmaker takes to the road on a motorcycle. He…
2014-11-13 In Kenyan Prison, Education May Mean Freedom
Eighteen people in central Kenya are taking the country’s secondary education test, called the KCSE. Even under normal conditions, this…
2014-11-12 Spacecraft Makes Historic Landing on a Comet
After traveling 10 years and hundreds of millions of kilometers, a small robotic spacecraft has for the first time landed…
2014-11-12 Low Prices Cause Kenyan Farmers to Change Tea Crop
Tea farmers in Kenya are suffering because of low prices for their crop this year. So they have exchanged their…
2014-11-12 Need a Ride? Share a Bike
People can rent many different things today: cars, apartments, party dresses — even surf boards to ride the waves. People…
2014-11-11 Child Death Rates Narrow Between Poor and Rich Countries
Death rates of young children have dropped to record lows in developing countries. Experts say there are two main reasons…