Jan 05 Watch News Wrap: Administration to Drop Mentions of End-of-Life Counseling In other news Wednesday, the Obama administration will drop references to end-of-life counseling as a covered service under Medicare. Also, more rain is forecast for flood-ravaged Queensland, Australia, which is already coping with 80,000 square miles underwater and mass evacuations. Continue watching
Jan 05 Four Months Later, Pakistan Still Reeling From Floods By Fred de Sam Lazaro Pakistani children in flooded town of Khairpur Nathanshah (Photo by Rizwan Tabassum/AFP/Getty Images) It is hard not to sympathize just a bit with Pakistani officials who, amid widespread accusations of a feeble, uncoordinated response to last summer's floods, argue… Continue reading
Jan 04 Watch News Wrap: Navy Relieves Capt. Honors From USS Enterprise Command In other news Tuesday, the U.S. Navy relieved Capt. Owen Honors from commanding the USS Enterprise, citing him for "extremely poor judgment" after he attracted scrutiny for lewd videos made and shown aboard aircraft carrier while he was second in… Continue watching
Jan 04 Pakistani Governor Assassinated, U.S. Offers Aid to Flood-plagued Australia Pakistani policemen cordon off the site of a fatal attack on Salman Taseer, the governor of Pakistan's Punjab state, by his bodyguard in Islamabad on Jan. 4, 2011. (Aamir Qureshi/AFP/Getty Images) The governor of Punjab, Pakistan's most populous state,… Continue reading
Jan 03 Video Dispatch: Haiti, a Year Later By Jeffrey Brown Jan. 12 will mark one year since a powerful earthquake rocked Haiti. The NewsHour's Jeffrey Brown is reporting in Port-au-Prince and beyond this week on life in the country a year later, the recent cholera outbreak and more. Brown… Continue reading
Jan 03 Governing Coalition Threatened in Pakistan, Huge Parts of Australia Flooded Pakistan's Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani, left, is flanked by leaders of Pakistan Muslim League Qaid-e-Azam (PML-Q) as he talks to the media after their meeting in Lahore on Monday. Pakistan's prime minister won tentative support at crisis talks… Continue reading
Jan 03 Watch News Wrap: Floodwaters Cover Large Swaths of Australian Outback In other news Monday, 22 cities and towns in the Australian state of Queensland have been inundated with floodwaters, prompting military airlifts of food and medical supplies. Also, police were pursuing a possible al-Qaida role in the deadly bombing of… Continue watching
Jan 01 World Events of 2010 By Larisa Epatko It was a year of earthquakes and volcanoes, floods and toxic spills, but 2010 also saw thwarted terrorist attacks and the joyous release of 33 miners in Chile from the Earth's rocky depths. Continue reading
Dec 31 Watch Ringing in the New Year, Rain or Shine In New York, crews worked to remove snow from last weekend's blizzard in time for the Times Square ball drop. Jeffrey Brown has more on New Year's celebrations - and weather hazards - around the world. Continue watching
Dec 31 Cities Around the World Mark New Year; Napolitano Spends Holiday with Troops Fireworks light up Sydney Harbour at the stroke of midnight to welcome in the year 2011 on January 01, 2011 in Sydney, Australia. (Don Arnold/Getty Images) 2011 has begun in New Zealand and Australia with massive fireworks displays… Continue reading