Apr 09 Watch Filmmaker Captures Life for Syrians Whose World Has Been Blown Apart Filmmaker Captures Life for Syrians Whose World Has Been Blown Apart… Continue watching
Apr 09 Babbling Sounds of Monkeys Share Rhythms with Human Speech A gelada baboon in Simien Mountains National Park, Ethiopia. Photo by A. Davey via Flickr. Scientists studying the evolution of speech have long puzzled over why there are no good models in primates. While primates share many traits with… Continue reading
Apr 09 Ten Years After Baghdad's Fall, a Look Back at the Iraq War By Justin Scuiletti // Watch a video synopsis of the Iraq war. Edited by Justin Scuiletti. (Warning: Some video footage is graphic.) On March 17, 2003, President George W. Bush addressed the nation: "All the decades of deceit and cruelty have now reached… Continue reading
Apr 08 Watch A Battle to Preserve the Berlin Wall as Cold War Landmark In Germany, a fight is on about protecting what remains of a Cold War landmark: the Berlin Wall. For 28 years, the wall separated East and West Germany as a way of keeping East Germans from fleeing. Independent producers Carl… Continue watching
Apr 08 World Reaction to Margaret Thatcher's Death in Tributes and Tweets By Larisa Epatko World leaders paid tribute to former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher on the day of her death Monday, calling her a "formidable" leader and "champion of freedom and liberty." Other comments showed the controversy surrounding some of her decisions. Continue reading
Apr 08 Syria's Displaced Battle Disease, Lack of Sanitation EmbedVideo(6142, 482, 304); Two years of civil war in Syria have killed tens of thousands and uprooted more than 4 million. It is a growing humanitarian crisis that shows no signs of abating. At least 3 million of… Continue reading
Apr 08 Margaret Thatcher, 'Iron Lady' of British Politics, Dies By News Desk Margaret Thatcher speaks at the Conservative Party Conference in Blackpool, England, in October 1981. Photo by Bob Thomas/Getty Images. Margaret Thatcher, the only three-term prime minister of Britain in the 20th century and the first woman to lead a… Continue reading
Apr 05 Watch Journalists Expose Trove of Hidden Offshore Bank Accounts Around the World Journalists Expose Trove of Hidden Offshore Bank Accounts Around the World… Continue watching
Apr 05 Watch Millions of Syrians Are Uprooted but Unable to Flee War-torn Country Within Syria, Millions of Refugees Are Uprooted and Unable to Flee… Continue watching
Apr 05 Watch News Wrap: North Korea Loads Missiles Onto Launchers In other news Friday, it was reported that North Korea loaded two medium-range missiles onto mobile launchers while South Korea deployed warships with missile defense systems. Also, it was revealed that a psychiatrist who treated Aurora, Colo., gunman James Holmes… Continue watching