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
Oct 05 New Spike in Violence Punctuates Mexico's Drug War By Larisa Epatko Clashes between rival gangs in Mexico left 34 people dead over the weekend, and the beating death of a mayor is the fifth killing of a city leader in six weeks, the latest fallout from the country's deadly drug war. Continue reading
Oct 05 Developers of Ultra-Thin, Super-Strong Carbon Win Physics Nobel Two Russian scientists will share $1.5 million and the Nobel Prize in physics for their "groundbreaking experiments" on the world's thinnest and strongest material, graphene. Graphene is just one atom thick, but 100 times stronger than the steel, and… Continue reading
Oct 05 Watch In Middle East, Coalition Aims to Ease Tension Over Water Resources As the Israelis and Palestinians grapple with direct negotiations for peace, there's another issue that is dividing them: water. Special Correspondent Fred de Sam Lazaro reports from the Middle East. Continue watching