Oct 15 Watch Rebels Choose to Work with Jihadists to Expedite Assad Ouster Rebels Choose to Work with Jihadists to Expedite Assad Ouster… Continue watching
Oct 15 The Daily Frame An Indian artist prepares tribal masks for the upcoming Hindu festival of Durga Puja, which commemorates the slaying of a demon king Mahishasur by goddess Durga, marking the triumph of good over evil. Continue reading
Oct 15 Watch News Wrap: U.S. Economists Win Nobel Prize for Innovation in Market Design In other news Monday, Americans Alvin Roth and Lloyd Shapley won the 2012 Nobel Prize in economics for changing the ways in which the market can match transactions, from choosing schools to donating organs. Also, Pakistan's Malala Yousafzai was flown… Continue watching
Oct 12 Dodge Poetry Festival Gets Underway The 2012 Dodge Poetry Festival is underway, billed as the largest poetry gathering in North America. This will be the third time it's being held in Newark, after many years in the woods in a much more rural New Jersey… Continue reading
Oct 12 Watch News Wrap: Hackers in Iran Likely Responsible for Cyber Attacks in Persian Gulf In other news Friday, U.S. authorities have new evidence suggesting hackers based in Iran carried out cyber attack that crippled 30,000 computers at major oil and gas companies in Saudi Arabia and Qatar. Also, Pakistani police arrested suspects connected to… Continue watching
Oct 11 2012 Vice Presidential Debate Live Blog Vice President Joe Biden and Rep. Paul Ryan met Thursday night for the only vice presidential debate of the 2012 campaign. We began coverage on our live blog in the afternoon, continued through the debate and even stayed a bit… Continue reading
Oct 11 Two Takes: Showdown in Little Danville We solicited two takes on the vice presidential debate -- one from the right and one from the left of the political spectrum. Photo by Jonathan Palmer/The Lexington Herald-Leader Last week we asked our NewsHour friends Rick Davis and Mo… Continue reading
Oct 11 Chinese Writer Mo Yan Wins Nobel Prize in Literature The Swedish Academy announced Thursday morning that it had awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature for 2012 to Chinese writer Mo Yan. In its announcement the academy described Mo as a writer "who with hallucinatory realism merges folk tales, history… Continue reading
Oct 10 Watch Report by U.S. Anti-Doping Agency Depicts Lance Armstrong as Ring Leader Report by U.S. Doping Agency Depicts Lance Armstrong as Ring Leader… Continue watching
Oct 10 Watch Pakistanis Protest in Support of Yousafzai, Defiance of Taliban Attack Pakastanis Protest in Support of Yousafzai, Defiance of Taliban Attack… Continue watching