Oct 19 Beijing marathon goes on despite heavy air pollution By Rialda Zukic The 34th Beijing International Marathon went on as scheduled Sunday despite heavy smog polluting the city as competitors raced to the finish line wearing face masks and sponges. Continue reading
Oct 19 Sweden steps up search for possible 'foreign underwater activity' By Carey Reed In a military move not seen since the Cold War, Sweden stepped up a search for possible "foreign underwater activity" in waters located approximately 31 miles from Stockholm Saturday, Reuters reported. Continue reading
Oct 18 Watch PBS NewsHour Weekend full episode Oct. 18, 2014 By PBS News Hour On this edition for Saturday, Oct. 18, President Obama appeals for calm in the face of the Ebola scare, an expert weighs in on plunging gas prices, and in our signature segment, trying to bring new jobs to coal-mining communities… Continue watching
Oct 18 Watch A step forward in ISIS fight? Iraq lawmakers approve Sunni, Shiite ministers By PBS News Hour For more on the Iraq parliament’s approval of Sunni and Shiite ministers, ISIS’s presence in Anbar province and the group’s encroachment on Baghdad, Douglas Ollivant, a partner with global strategic consulting firm Mantid International, joins Hari Sreenivasan from Washington. Continue watching
Oct 18 Catholic bishops nix pro-gay language from synod document in sign of split By Rialda Zukic Catholic bishops reversed on Saturday their initial welcome of gays, showing deep divisions on homosexuality and marriage at the end of a two-week meeting sought by Pope Francis. Continue reading
Oct 18 Northern white rhino death brings subspecies closer to extinction By Carey Reed Suni, one of the world's few remaining northern white rhinoceroses died in Kenya Friday, the Ol Pejeta Conservancy said, bringing the subspecies population to only six and closer to extinction. Continue reading
Oct 18 Rome mayor: Gay marriage transcriptions step toward equal rights By Rialda Zukic Rome's Mayor Ignazio Marino on Saturday went against Italy's law by registering 16 gay marriages that were celebrated in other countries. Continue reading
Oct 18 Why your Ebola-like symptoms are probably the flu By Andrew Mach Just as the 2009 swine flu pandemic drove up trips to the ER by nearly 20 percent even in areas where the illness had still not yet appeared, cold and flu season this year and the height of Ebola in… Continue reading
Oct 17 Watch What's motivating the Boko Haram cease-fire? - Part 2 By PBS News Hour Continue watching
Oct 17 How peacekeepers are trying to stop a genocide in the Central African Republic By News Desk When Christian militias began murdering their Muslim neighbors in the Central African Republic, a small group of peacekeepers kept the killing at bay. But the country remains a tinderbox -- with half a million refugees -- while both sides are… Continue reading