Oct 08 Watch China Lashes Out at Imprisoned Dissident Xiaobo Winning Nobel Peace Prize The 2010 Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to the imprisoned Liu Xiaobo for his human rights work in China, much to the country's dismay. Angus Walker of Independent Television News reports from Beijing on the local reaction. Continue watching
Oct 07 Watch Flooding, Taliban Create Uphill Battle to Educate Pakistani Girls Jonathan Miller of Independent Television News reports from Pakistan's Swat Valley about how efforts to educate girls are being hampered by both floodwaters and Taliban insurgents. Continue watching
Oct 07 Sudan Referendum Date 'Set in Stone' By Larisa Epatko The timing of the Jan. 9 vote on whether Sudan will become two countries is "set in stone," despite some major unresolved issues from distribution of oil wealth to citizenship rights, State Department officials said Thursday. Continue reading
Oct 07 Watch News Wrap: Suicide Bombers Strike Sufi Muslim Shrine in Pakistan In other news Thursday, two suicide bombers killed at least eight people and wounded 65 others at a Sufi Muslim shrine in Karachi. In Southern China, floodwater forced 200,000 people from their homes in the worst flooding there in 50… Continue watching
Oct 07 Thursday: Toxic Sludge Reaches Danube; Karzai Opens Peace Council The toxic red sludge that has been winding its way though villages in Hungary this week -- the result of a metal plant reservoir that burst its banks -- reached parts of the Danube River on Thursday, an emergency… Continue reading
Oct 07 Bosnia's Political Deadlock Underscores Ethnic Cracks By News Desk Growing ethnic nationalism in Bosnia-Herzegovina reflected in Sunday's elections casts further doubts on the country's prospects of joining the European Union. Continue reading
Oct 06 White House Report Unveils Concerns Over Pakistani Government As tensions have increased between the United States and Pakistan in recent days -- symbolized by the Pakistan government's closing of a key border crossing for NATO supplies into Afghanistan -- a White House report has become public and… Continue reading
Oct 06 Carbon-Bonding Tool Nabs Nobel Chemistry Prize Updated 12:51 p.m. ET | Carbon took center stage again Wednesday as three pioneering chemists won the Nobel for their development of palladium-catalyzed cross-coupling, a form of carbon-carbon bonding. The molecular tool, described by the committee as "great… Continue reading
Oct 05 Watch News Wrap: 12 Arrested in France Amid Suspected Terror Plots In other news Tuesday, amid possible terror plots in Europe, police in southern France arrested 12 suspects in raids aimed at Islamic militant groups. Continue watching
Oct 05 Watch Shahzad 'Extremely Defiant' at Sentencing for Failed NYC Bombing Faisal Shahzad, the Pakistani-American man who confessed to trying to set off a bomb in New York City's Times Square, was sentenced Tuesday to life in prison for the plot. Jim Lehrer talks to WNYC reporter Alisa Chang who was… Continue watching