Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has a message for her hosts in India: Don't make the mistakes on climate change that the U.S. did. NPR's Michele Kelemen is following Clinton's trip, and has this report from Mumbai.
This week, newsman Walter Cronkite died at 92. Also, the health care debate continued, the president gave a major speech on race and Judge Sonia Sotomayor seemed to survive her confirmation hearings.
The school has attracted the highest percentage of international students of any community college in the U.S. Students come from all over the world to attend, and some parents spend the equivalent of the family fortune to pay for tuition.
For the first time, Great Britain is establishing a Supreme Court — a role that has in past always been fulfilled by 12 judges sitting in the House of Lords. That will change in October, as the British government begins to implement separation of powers.
Suicide bombers killed eight people and wounded more than 50 at two American luxury hotels Friday in the Indonesian capital, Jakarta. James Clad, former U.S. deputy assistant secretary of defense for South and Southeast Asia, says Western counterterrorism experts had been giving the Indonesians high marks up to now.
Officials are hoping that a compromise in a case involving an ultra-Orthodox Jewish woman suspected of child abuse will lower tensions between the city and ultra-Orthodox demonstrators. Days of protests have left dozens of police injured and scores of protesters in custody.
Analysts say an aggressive counter-terrorism effort by the Indonesian government has crippled the Islamist militant group Jemaah Islamiyah. Could the latest attacks be an effort by the group to show strength and re-establish ties to al-Qaida?
China's growing economic and military power is causing countries in the Asia-Pacific area to reconsider their own positions in the region. Australia is a key case. It's trying to find a new balance between the region's current dominant power, the United States, and the area's re-emerging power, China.
A new film and a groundbreaking study bring new attention to an issue long considered a taboo in Germany: the mass rape of women by Soviet Red Army soldiers. Historians believe some 2 million German women were raped after Soviet and Allied forces defeated Hitler's army in 1945.
The Obama administration this week sent two Chinese-American Cabinet secretaries to China to promote cooperation on climate change. China and the U.S. are the world's largest carbon emitters, and their coordination will be crucial if any deal is to be reached at the United Nations climate change talks in Demark later this year.
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