World Jun 21 Brazilians Rally Against Government In a week's worth of protests in June 2013, Brazilians showed their anger at the government's spending priorities.
World Jun 19 Kennedy’s ‘Ich Bin Ein Berliner’ and Reagan’s ‘Tear Down This Wall’ Speech As President Obama returned to Berlin to speak at Brandenburg Gate, we look back at two famous Berlin speeches by other U.S. presidents, John F. Kennedy in 1963 and Ronald Reagan in 1987.
World Jun 18 At Guantanamo, Red Cross Defends Keeping Detainee Records Confidential The pre-trial hearing on the five suspected 9/11 plotters continued Tuesday at the U.S. base in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba -- without the accused present. The day focused on why the International Red Cross opposes requests to disclose its confidential condition…
World Jun 17 Live-Blog: Gitmo Hearing on Suspected 9/11 Mastermind, Co-conspirators The alleged mastermind of the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks on the United States and four suspected co-conspirators appear in a Guantanamo court Monday for the first time since detainees went on a hunger strike earlier this year.
World Jun 16 Alleged 9/11 Plotters Have Another Day in Guantanamo Court Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, identified in the 9/11 Commission Report as the "principal architect of the 9/11 attacks," is slated to appear in court with four suspected co-conspirators on Monday.
World Jun 13 In India, Farmers Pick Heartier Seeds Over Those With High Yields When a cyclone hits India, the sea-drenched soil can remain salty for years. Farmers are finding new high-yield rice seeds are not withstanding the salty onslaught as well as seeds developed more than a century ago.
Nation Jun 13 China Needs Milk and California Has Too Much. Is It a Match? California dairy farmers are pumping out milk at higher rates each year to try to make a profit in light of the rising associated costs of corn and soy used in cow feed.
World Jun 12 In Singapore, When You Can’t Grow Out, You Grow Up Singapore's skyline is composed mostly of skyscrapers, so it's no wonder residents are looking up when they're considering places to grow fruits and vegetables in this high-density Asian island.
World Jun 12 Singapore’s Vegetable Towers In order to grow fresh produce on limited land, Singapore has constructed towers where seedlings grow into eatable plants.
Nation Jun 11 Google: We Turned Over Information on a ‘Tiny Fraction’ of Users In his first U.S. television interview since the latest news broke of the government's surveillance program, Google's chief legal officer David Drummond told PBS NewsHour senior correspondent Jeffrey Brown on Tuesday that the company has given the U.S. government information…