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Incredible photo, plus article "Lax safety in Congo makes river travel dangerous"

Posted by kluciole at 9/6/2010 10:12 PM | Add Comment

EU money helps Roma get jobs and fight stereotypes

Posted by kluciole at 9/6/2010 10:04 PM | Add Comment

AP: In addition to success stories, "US wasted billions in rebuilding Iraq "

Posted by kluciole at 8/29/2010 5:48 PM | Add Comment

'Pregnant nun' ice cream ad faces ban in Catholic outcry

Posted by kluciole at 8/28/2010 5:17 PM | View Comments (1) | Add Comment

Silk's dark side: Uzbek kids made to grow cocoons

Posted by kluciole at 8/28/2010 5:14 PM | Add Comment

China bets future on inland cities

Posted by kluciole at 8/3/2010 5:46 AM | Add Comment

Court orders 'Bookseller of Kabul' author Aasne Seierstad to pay damages

Posted by kluciole at 7/29/2010 3:11 AM | Add Comment

BP chief executive Tony Hayward will walk away with a payoff of up to 18.5 million dollars

Posted by kluciole at 7/26/2010 1:38 AM | Add Comment

Gadget makers forced to look at links to Congo war

Posted by kluciole at 7/25/2010 5:42 AM | Add Comment

Women's empowerment fuel economic hopes and fashionable dreams in Pakistan's turbulent Baluchistan

Posted by kluciole at 7/19/2010 9:40 PM | Add Comment

Help Gulf Coast Animal Shelters

Posted by kluciole at 7/19/2010 9:30 PM | Add Comment

The Coming Birth Control Battle: Health-care reform spurs conservative activists to fight against coverage

Posted by kluciole at 7/14/2010 11:11 AM | Add Comment

Presbyterians: End Israel aid over settlements. "Israel's peace will not come until they seek peace with Palestinians"

Posted by kluciole at 7/10/2010 12:00 AM | Add Comment

How Postal Rate Hikes Foretell America's Future

Posted by kluciole at 7/7/2010 3:46 PM | Add Comment

"Marmaduke" movie has dog groups prepping for dumped Great Danes

Posted by kluciole at 7/6/2010 5:27 PM | Add Comment

U.S. Is Richest Nation, But Not Happiest

Posted by kluciole at 7/1/2010 11:52 PM | Add Comment

Tycoon trio wins control of France's Le Monde

Posted by kluciole at 6/28/2010 3:13 PM | Add Comment

China's young college grads toil in 'ant tribes' as they "run up against the realities of China's rapid economic ascent"

Posted by kluciole at 6/27/2010 3:51 PM | Add Comment

Opinion article: "Art Is Fundamental -- and Fundamental to Support" by Maria Shriver

Posted by kluciole at 6/26/2010 9:53 PM | Add Comment

Congress considers cracking down on 'puppy mills'

Posted by kluciole at 6/24/2010 5:19 PM | Add Comment

TIME article: Is Germany's Government Headed for a Breakdown?

Posted by kluciole at 6/24/2010 5:15 PM | Add Comment

$75M mansion near Orlando selling 'as is' -- no carpet, tiles or interior walls

Posted by kluciole at 6/22/2010 6:49 PM | Add Comment

Luciole Press friend and contributor, author and publisher Ami Kaye, has a new book and a new website to check out!

Posted by kluciole at 6/22/2010 12:22 AM | Add Comment

Little Maddison wants to raise money for operation for her 'disfigured' foal Diego: "He is my best friend and I don't care what he looks like, to me his face makes him special"

Posted by kluciole at 6/20/2010 1:01 PM | Add Comment

VA quietly giving benefits to Marines exposed to toxic water on Camp Lejeune

Posted by kluciole at 6/20/2010 12:52 PM | Add Comment

Israel agrees to ease Gaza land blockade

Posted by kluciole at 6/17/2010 9:18 AM | Add Comment

At spill hearing, BP CEO says he's 'deeply sorry'

Posted by kluciole at 6/17/2010 9:14 AM | Add Comment

Modigliani sculpture sets artist record in Paris

Posted by kluciole at 6/16/2010 5:34 PM | Add Comment

Massive space storms forecasted as sun awakens from 'deep slumber'

Posted by kluciole at 6/14/2010 5:27 PM | Add Comment

More than 12 million are modern slaves — trapped in forced labor, bonded labor or forced prostitution

Posted by kluciole at 6/14/2010 5:05 PM | Add Comment

Historic Polaroid collection going to NYC auction

Posted by kluciole at 6/12/2010 2:00 PM | Add Comment

Obama faces rare defeat on health help for jobless

Posted by kluciole at 6/12/2010 1:49 PM | Add Comment

Louisiana leaders want Gulf drilling to resume

Posted by kluciole at 6/11/2010 9:13 AM | Add Comment

Hispanics abandon Arizona, fleeing economy, immigration law

Posted by kluciole at 6/11/2010 9:06 AM | Add Comment

Chinese farmer uses homemade cannon to fight eviction; "China has witnessed a surge of violent confrontations triggered by land seizures as officials and businesses seek to cash in by evicting residents"

Posted by kluciole at 6/9/2010 9:39 AM | Add Comment

London art auctions target Russian middle class

Posted by kluciole at 6/7/2010 7:49 AM | Add Comment

Photo: Sotheby's technicians pose with pair of Nicholas I Imperial Porcelain Vases, created in 1841

Posted by kluciole at 6/5/2010 8:45 PM | Add Comment

Simon & Schuster hires new publisher, Jonathan Karp

Posted by kluciole at 6/5/2010 8:35 PM | Add Comment

Sickening new images of the helpless wildlife dying in the muck of the BP spill

Posted by kluciole at 6/4/2010 5:36 PM | Add Comment

Egypt opens Gaza border -- for those already cleared (pre-cleared patients with medical emergencies and students with visas to study abroad)

Posted by kluciole at 6/2/2010 8:51 PM | Add Comment

Blair: Gaza blockade counterproductive but hard to ease

Posted by kluciole at 6/2/2010 8:56 AM | Add Comment

Upper Delaware River most endangered in U.S. -- source of drinking water for 17 million people one of 10 rivers on list, threatened due to natural gas drilling, mining and poor flood management

Posted by kluciole at 6/2/2010 8:48 AM | Add Comment

Activists send new boat to challenge Gaza blockade as Egypt lifts its side of blockade for aid

Posted by kluciole at 6/1/2010 5:24 AM | Add Comment

West Poised for Worst Grasshopper Outbreak in 30 Years

Posted by kluciole at 5/31/2010 3:48 PM | View Comments (1) | Add Comment

Q&A: Aid and Israel's Gaza blockade

Posted by kluciole at 5/31/2010 3:27 PM | Add Comment

Bloody Israeli raid on flotilla sparks crisis

Posted by kluciole at 5/31/2010 3:16 PM | Add Comment

Photo: a cyclone survivor takes part in a demonstration in Dhaka, Bangladesh

Posted by kluciole at 5/28/2010 6:14 PM | Add Comment

Hawaii first in nation to ban possession, sale, trade or distribution of shark fins (plus article "A sad shark's tale: Shocking images show scale of fin trade")

Posted by kluciole at 5/28/2010 5:54 PM | View Comments (1) | Add Comment

Democrat James Carville Slams Obama's Response to BP Oil Spill and 'Political Stupidity'

Posted by kluciole at 5/26/2010 8:29 PM | Add Comment

Blackfeet Elouise Cobell sees end to 14-year government fight: "Cobell's class-action lawsuit represents as many as 500,000 Indians who own property that the government holds in trust for them"

Posted by kluciole at 5/22/2010 1:36 PM | Add Comment

Cleaning oil-soaked wetlands may be impossible

Posted by kluciole at 5/22/2010 1:23 PM | Add Comment

How Republican U.S. Senate candidate Rand Paul's civil-rights views escaped media scrutiny

Posted by kluciole at 5/20/2010 4:54 PM | View Comments (1) | Add Comment

Heavy oil hits Louisiana shore

Posted by kluciole at 5/19/2010 4:06 PM | Add Comment

Ocean fish could disappear in 40 years, UN warns, "unless fishing fleets are slashed and stocks allowed to recover"

Posted by kluciole at 5/18/2010 1:41 PM | Add Comment

Oil spill to shut down 19 percent of Gulf fishing. Photos of a pelican being cleansed of oil, and a ship passing through oil patch

Posted by kluciole at 5/18/2010 1:31 PM | Add Comment

Africa's Lake Tanganyika warming fast, and wildlife is dying

Posted by kluciole at 5/16/2010 1:11 PM | Add Comment

Thousands of nonprofits may lose tax-exempt status because they haven't filed a new form with the IRS

Posted by kluciole at 5/15/2010 1:39 PM | View Comments (2) | Add Comment

An oil platform towers in the background as a pelican flies past a surfer off the coast of Carpenteria, California

Posted by kluciole at 5/14/2010 5:52 PM | Add Comment

High-risk patients may be stuck paying high rates

Posted by kluciole at 5/14/2010 5:41 PM | Add Comment

Photo: a Somali boy carries fish to the market in Mogadishu

Posted by kluciole at 5/14/2010 5:39 PM | Add Comment

Photo: French artist Christain Boltanski's "No Man's Land," composed of 30 tons of discarded clothing

Posted by kluciole at 5/14/2010 5:22 PM | Add Comment

Brothel owners transported women around British suburbs in a cage

Posted by kluciole at 5/13/2010 6:48 AM | Add Comment

Obama says health care law already helps millions

Posted by kluciole at 5/8/2010 12:23 PM | Add Comment

Deep beneath the Gulf, oil may be wreaking havoc

Posted by kluciole at 5/5/2010 6:05 PM | Add Comment

Zettabytes Now Needed to Describe Global Data Overload

Posted by kluciole at 5/4/2010 4:48 PM | Add Comment

94% of fish stocks have vanished from British waters

Posted by kluciole at 5/4/2010 4:44 PM | Add Comment

Attention shoppers: Gulf spill could affect you

Posted by kluciole at 5/3/2010 2:04 PM | Add Comment

2 Articles: "Gulf of Mexico oil spill 'the bad one' — recipe for disaster" and "Many endangered turtles dying on Texas Gulf Coast "

Posted by kluciole at 5/1/2010 11:44 AM | Add Comment

Photo: the new high-tech design of the $100 bill is unveiled in Washington

Posted by kluciole at 5/1/2010 11:29 AM | Add Comment

Meltdown, volcano: Weary Icelanders ask, what next

Posted by kluciole at 5/1/2010 11:19 AM | View Comments (1) | Add Comment

Iceland volcano: Amazing pictures show apocalyptic scene as wall of black fog covers the country in darkness

Posted by kluciole at 4/18/2010 2:24 PM | Add Comment

Painting, "Saint John the Baptist Bearing Witness," could be lost work of Michelangelo -- now worth over $200 million

Posted by kluciole at 4/17/2010 3:37 PM | Add Comment

Ash may hover for days over uncertain Europe; new mini-eruptions "raise concerns about longer-term damage to world air travel and trade"

Posted by kluciole at 4/17/2010 3:01 PM | Add Comment

George Washington racks up late fees at NY library

Posted by kluciole at 4/17/2010 2:55 PM | Add Comment

Quake in mountainous Tibetan area of western China kills 400, buries more

Posted by kluciole at 4/14/2010 4:32 AM | Add Comment

Cyclone packing winds of more than 100 mph demolished ten of thousands of mud huts in northeastern India, killing at least 85 people

Posted by kluciole at 4/14/2010 4:28 AM | Add Comment

Photo: locals of the Qiang ethnic minority pick tea leaves at a tea plantation in Yaan, Sichuan province

Posted by kluciole at 4/12/2010 6:58 PM | Add Comment

Stranded, oil-leaking ship is a "time bomb" for the Great Barrier Reef

Posted by kluciole at 4/5/2010 8:53 PM | Add Comment

Thousands of vets missing out on better benefits

Posted by kluciole at 4/3/2010 1:27 AM | Add Comment

Would partners of gay troops get benefits, too?

Posted by kluciole at 3/26/2010 3:40 AM | Add Comment

America's daring ironworkers walk the girders just like their forefathers as they rebuild at Ground Zero

Posted by kluciole at 3/26/2010 3:30 AM | Add Comment

Rep. Randy Neugebauer "apologizes for 'baby killer' remark during health care debate, but turns moment into a campaign fundraiser"

Posted by kluciole at 3/24/2010 12:58 AM | View Comments (1) | Add Comment

Congress approves historic health care legislation

Posted by kluciole at 3/21/2010 6:56 PM | Add Comment

Picasso's "Portrait of Angel Fernandez de Soto," once center of dispute, for sale

Posted by kluciole at 3/17/2010 3:19 AM | Add Comment

Tom Delay: People Are Unemployed Because They Want To Be

Posted by kluciole at 3/8/2010 10:00 AM | Add Comment

Senate rejects $250 checks for elderly, which "would have made up for social security benefits not increasing this year"

Posted by kluciole at 3/4/2010 6:57 PM | View Comments (2) | Add Comment

Tsunami warning to every nation around the Pacific after massive 8.8 earthquake strikes Chile

Posted by kluciole at 2/27/2010 11:20 AM | Add Comment

Decaying apartments symptom of housing crisis, as landlords let maintenance go in effort to avoid foreclosure and bankruptcy

Posted by kluciole at 2/21/2010 10:17 AM | Add Comment

Britain at risk of worse deficit crisis than Greece, sparking serious fears over the economic stability of the country

Posted by kluciole at 2/18/2010 4:07 PM | Add Comment

Disillusioned Sen. Bayh advocates electoral “shock” to broken system, encourages voters to remove Congressional incumbents in mass

Posted by kluciole at 2/16/2010 2:35 PM | Add Comment

US debt will keep growing even with recovery

Posted by kluciole at 2/14/2010 1:30 PM | Add Comment

More Homeless Americans Living in Cars and Campers

Posted by kluciole at 2/14/2010 1:21 PM | Add Comment

A worthy cause!! S.A. Griffin, creator of The Poetry Bomb, has posted an appeal for his project

Posted by kluciole at 2/13/2010 8:27 PM | Add Comment

Fantastic Art!! Take a look at Diana Bonebrake's online studio sale and drink in the lovely skies...

Posted by kluciole at 2/13/2010 8:17 PM | Add Comment

Never-before seen photos of Marilyn Monroe with poet Carl Sandburg go up for sale (shot by Len Steckler)

Posted by kluciole at 2/6/2010 2:46 AM | Add Comment

Middle Class No More, Families Struggle to Fight off Homelessness

Posted by kluciole at 2/5/2010 3:56 PM | Add Comment

Photo: villagers remove petioles of red chili at Shertha village in India where they earn 7 rupees (US$ 0.14) for 44pounds

Posted by kluciole at 2/3/2010 6:11 PM | Add Comment

Winter blasted Cheyenne River Indian Reservation in need of HELP!

Posted by kluciole at 2/1/2010 7:32 PM | Add Comment

Mystery of missing painting by Rolf Harris now center of court battle over its possession

Posted by kluciole at 2/1/2010 7:10 PM | Add Comment

Haiti's children on their own on shattered streets

Posted by kluciole at 1/26/2010 5:20 PM | Add Comment
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