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I recently returned from some wonderful, eye-opening, and unforgettable experiences in India and Ethiopia. In my previous blog I talked about the incredible energy at...
South African actress Charlize Theron has landed the leading lady's role in Friday's draw for next year's World Cup finals in her home country, FIFA announced on Tuesday.
On Ecorazzi.com, self-proclaimed provider of green gossip, Paul McCartney and other green celebs offer meat-free Christmas recipes while Cate Blanchett muses on the Copenhagen climate summit.
One of the world’s largest Christian humanitarian organizations aims to raise $25 million to fight poverty this Christmas season by interviewing poor people around the world.
CHICAGO - Dec 2/09 - SNS -- Following is the morning corn futures comment from the futures commission brokerage firm Linn Group. The corn market closed lower on Tuesday as the corn market couldn’t hold the early gains against resistance levels.
Some 8,000 immigrants are in deportation proceedings in Minnesota. Every night, 200-300 detainees are behind bars. The Obama administration is overhauling immigrant detention, but moving them out of jails will take years.
Fundraising Gala, Presented by Baccarat, to Take Place in New York City on Dec. 2
WHEN HE WAS 13, Roald Dahl got a chance to be a taste-tester for a focus group at Cadbury, along with his classmates at Repton in Derbyshire. At the time, Cadbury and Rowntree engaged in bitter corporate espionage.
SANA'A, Yemen, Dec. 1 (UPI) -- The bodies of eight crew members of a Yemeni airliner that crashed in June are coming home, officials said Tuesday.
(November 30, 2009) Internews Network helped develop World AIDS Day SMS that will be sent to more than 2.5 million people in Ethiopia from the President of Ethiopia, Girma Woldegiorgis.
A liquor store owner assaulted during an attempted robbery was recovering today, and three suspects were at large. The three males entered a liquor store on Pico Boulevard at Hauser Boulevard near Little Ethiopia around 10:30 p.m. Sunday.
CITY OF NEWBURGH — Rabbi Capers Funnye, first cousin to Michelle Obama, will spend the weekend in the mid-Hudson Valley.
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As of Monday, Nov. 30, 2009, at least 849 members of the U.S. military had died in Afghanistan, Pakistan and Uzbekistan as a result of the U.S. invasion of Afghanistan in late 2001, according to the Defense Department. The department last updated its figures Monday at 10 a.m. EST.
As of Tuesday, Dec. 1, 2009, at least 851 members of the U.S. military had died in Afghanistan, Pakistan and Uzbekistan as a result of the U.S. invasion of Afghanistan in late 2001, according to the Defense Department. The...
Like many of the two million other children worldwide living with HIV, Sachi, born September 10, 2007, contracted the virus from her birth mother, who was a sex worker in Mysore, India.
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