Aug 24 Charging Cell Phones on the Sly in Syria, the True Story By Larisa Epatko Earlier this month, we aired a report from our partners at GlobalPost about protesters in Syria -- the mistreatment they endured and their tactics for getting around a restrictive regime. One method of recharging cell phone batteries described by one… Continue reading
Aug 24 Starving Somalis Latest Victims of Broken Government A mother and child from Somalia at a refugee camp in Kenya. Photo by Kate Holt, CARE. The food crisis in Somalia gets worse by the day. Desperately hungry people are pouring out of their home provinces, crossing borders… Continue reading
Aug 24 Category 3 Hurricane Irene Moves Toward East Coast By News Desk Evacuations were in progress Wednesday on North Carolina's Ocracoke Island as Hurricane Irene, which strengthened to a Category 3, bore down on the Bahamas before on its way north toward the East Coast, where it will likely hit this weekend. Continue reading
Aug 24 Rebels Work to Secure Gains, Hunt Gadhafi By News Desk Photo by Filippo Monteforte/AFP/Getty Images. 5:15 p.m. ET | Rebels have offered a $2 million reward for anyone who tracks Gadhafi's location. Anyone who captures or even kills him would be offered amnesty. Sniper fire and other attacks by… Continue reading
Aug 23 Woodruff: Dispatch From Shanghai I hadn't been to China since 1995, so I wasn't prepared for the explosive growth (and bundle of contradictions) in this sprawling mega-city on China's east coast. For all I had read and heard about how "China has changed," this… Continue reading
Aug 23 Check How Intense East Coast Earthquake Was in Your Zip Code Text updated 7:52 p.m. ET | Tuesday afternoon's earthquake was a shared experience for millions of Americans along the East Coast, but how intense was it where you live? The U.S. Geological Survey has released a summary of the… Continue reading
Aug 23 Watch How Fairly Were Strauss-Kahn, Diallo Treated by Justice System? Were the Legalities of the Strauss Kahn Case Handled Correctly?… Continue watching
Aug 23 Watch 'Extraordinary' East Coast Quake a Reminder of Seismic Threat in Most States More Than 12 Million May Have Felt Unusual East Coast Earthquake… Continue watching
Aug 23 Rare 5.8-Magnitude Earthquake Jolts East Coast, Causing Various Disruptions The above map shows earthquake activity in the United States in the past week: These maps requires the Google Earth browser plugin. Download the plugin here. Updated at 6:32 pm ET: A 5.8-magnitude temblor shook much of… Continue reading
Aug 23 Gadhafi's Compound Breached by Rebels By News Desk Updated 5:40 a.m. ET | One NATO official described the battle as "not over yet, although it's close," according to CNN. Late into the night rebels were seen seizing items from Gadhafi's compound, including his golf cart and Bedouin… Continue reading