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For nearly five weeks President Bashar al-Assad faced growing unrest in Syria without giving any significant ground. His security forces cracked down -- often violently -- on protesters. His Interior Ministry this week described the protests as an insurrection…

Apr 19

In his project, "Where Children Sleep," photographer James Mollison explores how the sleeping spaces of children around the world reveal much about their lives. Sadly, the notion that we're all born equal is not the case, he says.

True Finns' Timo Soini (Martti Kainulainen/AFP/Getty Images) Tea Party-like politics may be arriving in Europe. That is how some European political analysts and commentators are interpreting the results of Sunday's parliamentary elections in the Scandinavian nation of Finland, where…