On April 4, over 2,500 women from across the globe packed into New York City’s Lincoln Center to participate in the Women in the World Summit. The gathering brought together some of today’s most influential...
Catherine Schurz, World and Nation Section Editor
• April 12, 2013
London, UK
Former Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher died on April 8 at age 87. Thatcher was the first female prime minister of the UK, a Conservative Party member and an avid supporter of the free...
Despite being cleared for release from Guantanamo Bay in 2007 and again in 2009, British citizen Shaker Aamer remains incarcerated. Britain has repeatedly called for his extradition to the U.K., but...
There is a lot left to learn about this world.
Over the last year, there have been a number of highly important scientific and historic discoveries made. Among these discoveries is the world’s oldest...
Ontario, Canada
The hagfish, a 500-million-year-old spineless creature with snake-like features, lives at the bottom of the ocean floor. Its unique glands constantly produce a thick slime that serves...
During the 2012 election, Hussein Ibish of the American Task Force on Palestine described the Israeli-Palestinian conflict as “an issue (that has) fallen off the map of U.S. foreign policy attention.”
Recently...
“I have no sympathy for whores,” tweeted Twitter user cody_saltsman.
“So you got drunk at a party and two people take advantage of you, that’s not rape, you’re just a loose drunk slut,”...
State governments have been cashing in on the profit from lotteries for decades, but hopes of higher earnings have spurred recent changes.
Pennsylvania and Indiana have contracted private companies...
Following the resignation of Pope Benedict XVI, Pope Francis of Buenos Aires was elected by the cardinals of the Roman Catholic Church on March 13 in the shortest papal conclave in history.
The 85-year-old...
