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 wagon rides and walk in the fields. These people are…
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 “hackers.” It had never been shut down before. A senior…
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. Health care workers prepared the supplies for use by doctors…
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. They have more power, more influence and more money —…
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 they need more money to carry out the campaign. Without…
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 day after the three activists were arrested. They were found…
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 in the late 1960s and continuing through the 1980s, his…
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 and his video camera travel around the Arab world. 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 examination can make a student nervous. But these 18 students…
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 on the surface of a comet, a solar system object…
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 tea bushes for a healthy new “purple tea” that they…
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 handle these rentals between and among themselves. They do not…
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 for the decrease. They are improved government action, and simple…
2014-11-11 Rescued Animals Need More Space in Asia
Efforts to stop illegal trade of endangered animals are gaining strength in some areas, including Southeast Asia. But now, officials must decide what to do with the thousands of animals…
2014-11-10 Film Explores Battle War Veterans Face in Civilian Society
In the movie “The Last Patrol,” filmmaker Sebastian Junger travels with two war veterans and a photographer who has worked in war zones. The four men walk 640 kilometers from…