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Palin's Palmprompter: How Sarah sneakily consulted her notes during her $100,000 appearance at Tea Party rally to answer pre-screened questions

Posted by kluciole at 2/8/2010 2:07 PM | View Comments (1) | Add Comment

Rep. John Murtha, Iraq war critic, dies at 77

Posted by kluciole at 2/8/2010 2:01 PM | Add Comment

Saudi Arabia's human rights lawyers called in to try to force divorce of girl, 12, married to 80-year-old man

Posted by kluciole at 2/8/2010 1:46 PM | Add Comment

Costa Rica: Ruling party candidate Laura Chinchilla leads vote, could be elected first female president

Posted by kluciole at 2/7/2010 7:48 PM | Add Comment

'America is ready for another revolution,' Sarah Palin tells Tea Party activists, and says it is absurd for her not to ponder presidential bid

Posted by kluciole at 2/7/2010 8:00 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

13 countries agree plan to save wild tigers

Posted by kluciole at 1/30/2010 9:38 PM | Add Comment

'People's History' author Howard Zinn dies at 87. RIP, it was wonderful to meet you

Posted by kluciole at 1/27/2010 6:41 PM | Add Comment

Rush, Robertson take heat for comments about earthquake in Haiti

Posted by kluciole at 1/14/2010 10:21 PM | Add Comment

New book review: "The Cracked Ceiling" examines women in politics

Posted by kluciole at 1/6/2010 2:35 AM | Add Comment

Japan's prime minister "wants equal ties with US"

Posted by kluciole at 1/4/2010 1:34 AM | Add Comment

Muslim-Hindu punk rock bands part of new movement

Posted by kluciole at 1/2/2010 11:25 AM | Add Comment

TIME article -- Bicentennial Anxiety: Why Mexicans Are Wary of 2010

Posted by kluciole at 1/1/2010 6:04 AM | Add Comment

Ultra-Orthodox Jews make rare visit to Gaza in show of support for Palestinians

Posted by kluciole at 1/1/2010 5:51 AM | View Comments (5) | Add Comment

Incredible photos from Iran as reform protesters clash with police, who are accused of firing on the demonstrators

Posted by kluciole at 12/29/2009 10:18 AM | View Comments (1) | Add Comment

Skin whitening cream finds new popularity among Palestinian women

Posted by kluciole at 12/28/2009 9:14 PM | View Comments (1) | Add Comment

Esther Chavez, a women's rights activist who denounced Juarez border killings and founded Casa Amiga, has died

Posted by kluciole at 12/26/2009 7:05 PM | Add Comment

Pakistani brothers to have ears and nose chopped off for doing the same to woman who rejected one

Posted by kluciole at 12/23/2009 12:12 AM | Add Comment

Slaying of drug war hero's family shocks Mexico

Posted by kluciole at 12/23/2009 12:07 AM | Add Comment

Against nudity ban, gallery in Ashland, Oregon takes it all off

Posted by kluciole at 12/20/2009 4:55 AM | Add Comment

Fear of violence grows in mountaintop strip mining fight

Posted by kluciole at 12/19/2009 3:28 PM | Add Comment

Photos: Afghan children, refugees in Pakistan, play in their neighborhood of Rawalpindi

Posted by kluciole at 12/19/2009 4:06 AM | Add Comment

Pakistani ruling party grapples with amnesty's end

Posted by kluciole at 12/19/2009 3:56 AM | Add Comment

Surreal photo: the White House enveloped in fog

Posted by kluciole at 12/15/2009 7:54 AM | View Comments (1) | Add Comment

Harassment across Arab world drives women inside

Posted by kluciole at 12/15/2009 7:48 AM | View Comments (1) | Add Comment

Diplomatic furore from Israel as British court issues arrest warrant for former foreign minister Tzipi Livni over Gaza War

Posted by kluciole at 12/15/2009 7:14 AM | View Comments (1) | Add Comment

Poor being turned away from free cancer screenings

Posted by kluciole at 12/13/2009 5:58 PM | Add Comment

968 detained at climate rally urging bold pact

Posted by kluciole at 12/12/2009 6:30 PM | Add Comment

Protesters damage UC Berkeley chancellor Birgeneau's home; demonstrations at many schools against state funding cuts

Posted by kluciole at 12/12/2009 6:18 PM | View Comments (3) | Add Comment

Under one Danish roof, humanity talks climate

Posted by kluciole at 12/11/2009 6:25 PM | Add Comment

Nobel-winning Obama defends war in call for peace

Posted by kluciole at 12/10/2009 2:08 PM | Add Comment

Iran says will show no mercy to opposition protesters

Posted by kluciole at 12/8/2009 4:47 PM | Add Comment

Supreme Court takes up 'honest services' (anti-corruption) law

Posted by kluciole at 12/7/2009 4:50 PM | Add Comment

Historic EPA finding: Greenhouse gases harm humans

Posted by kluciole at 12/7/2009 4:45 PM | Add Comment

Swedish store pulls plug on N. Korean jeans

Posted by kluciole at 12/5/2009 6:22 PM | View Comments (1) | Add Comment

Iran bans foreign media cover as student rally nears

Posted by kluciole at 12/5/2009 6:20 PM | Add Comment

Germany still paying off reparations following WWI -- more than 90 years on

Posted by kluciole at 12/2/2009 11:12 AM | Add Comment

Iran whistleblower, 26-year-old Dr. Ramin Pourandarjani, died from drug-laced salad

Posted by kluciole at 12/2/2009 11:05 AM | Add Comment

Latin America's first gay marriage blocked by judge

Posted by kluciole at 12/1/2009 3:38 PM | Add Comment

South Africa to treat all HIV-positive babies

Posted by kluciole at 12/1/2009 3:06 PM | Add Comment

Swiss ban mosque minarets in surprise vote

Posted by kluciole at 11/29/2009 9:47 PM | Add Comment

New climate targets may not change daily life much

Posted by kluciole at 11/26/2009 7:33 PM | Add Comment

Iranian authorities confiscate Nobel Peace laureate and human rights lawyer Shirin Ebadi's medal; clerics start taking control of schools

Posted by kluciole at 11/26/2009 6:29 PM | Add Comment

TIME article -- "Reburying Albert Camus: A Political Ploy by Sarkozy?"

Posted by kluciole at 11/25/2009 1:06 PM | Add Comment

POLITICO: Lou Dobbs considering White House bid

Posted by kluciole at 11/24/2009 12:36 PM | Add Comment

AP reporter caught up in Stalin family's agony; George Krimsky tried to help Stalin's grandson Josef Alliluyev contact his mother in the U.S. (and possibly defect)

Posted by kluciole at 11/22/2009 7:12 PM | Add Comment

Article from Eco expert Fred Pearce: "How 16 ships create as much pollution as all the cars in the world"

Posted by kluciole at 11/21/2009 5:54 PM | View Comments (4) | Add Comment

Afghan road builder's dream thwarted by violence

Posted by kluciole at 11/21/2009 5:43 PM | Add Comment

Afghans say poverty, not Taliban, main cause of war

Posted by kluciole at 11/18/2009 3:23 PM | Add Comment

Palin angered by 'sexist' Newsweek cover

Posted by kluciole at 11/17/2009 2:39 PM | Add Comment

Photo: "Going Rouge: The Sarah Palin Rogue Coloring & Activity Book"

Posted by kluciole at 11/16/2009 4:03 PM | View Comments (1) | Add Comment

USDA: Number of Americans going hungry increases to 49 million

Posted by kluciole at 11/16/2009 3:54 PM | View Comments (1) | Add Comment

Official apology from Britain for 150,000 poor British children who were shipped off to the colonies over three and a half centuries, taken from their families to be used as workers (and often severely abused)

Posted by kluciole at 11/15/2009 3:44 PM | View Comments (1) | Add Comment

Obama tells Myanmar junta to free Suu Kyi

Posted by kluciole at 11/15/2009 3:15 AM | Add Comment

Cat's demise prompts rumors of Thatcher's death

Posted by kluciole at 11/13/2009 7:00 PM | Add Comment

New literary star Marie NDiaye takes on France's old guard; she is the author of "Trois femmes puissantes" ("Three Powerful Women")

Posted by kluciole at 11/13/2009 6:52 PM | Add Comment

Fact check: Palin's book goes rogue on some facts -- "Going Rogue" has all the characteristics of a pre-campaign manifesto"

Posted by kluciole at 11/13/2009 6:19 PM | Add Comment

Women face tough choices on abortion coverage if restrictions in the House health care bill become law

Posted by kluciole at 11/12/2009 2:56 PM | Add Comment

Report: Chinese who complain to government risk being kidnapped

Posted by kluciole at 11/12/2009 1:13 AM | Add Comment

Student Mahmoud Vahidnia hailed a hero as he takes on Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khamenei -- but some ask "was it all a set up?"

Posted by kluciole at 11/8/2009 2:13 PM | Add Comment

To defang Taliban, some look to private schools: "the quality of public education is deteriorating day by day... when there's a vacuum of quality, someone will fill it"

Posted by kluciole at 11/7/2009 2:06 PM | Add Comment

International human rights group says Iran covered up rape of detainees

Posted by kluciole at 11/6/2009 5:42 PM | Add Comment

Genetic tests for UK asylum seekers draw criticism

Posted by kluciole at 11/5/2009 5:39 PM | Add Comment

Clinton: US wants Israel settlement halt 'forever'

Posted by kluciole at 11/4/2009 1:25 PM | Add Comment

Human trafficking for the "flesh trade" targets Natives: young Aboriginal women used as a sex commodity in cities across Canada (average age of girls trafficked is 7-12 years old)

Posted by kluciole at 11/4/2009 12:34 PM | Add Comment

Battle over face veil brewing in Egypt

Posted by kluciole at 11/2/2009 11:21 AM | Add Comment

"Which hand do you want to lose first?" The inspiring story of Mariatu Kamara, who survived Sierra Leone's war

Posted by kluciole at 11/1/2009 8:50 PM | Add Comment

Photos from Halloween night at the White House

Posted by kluciole at 11/1/2009 11:06 AM | Add Comment

Twenty years since the fall of the Berlin Wall -- how Germany has healed the scars

Posted by kluciole at 11/1/2009 10:44 AM | Add Comment

New trials to plant genetically-modified maize have stoked anger in Mexico

Posted by kluciole at 10/29/2009 11:04 AM | Add Comment

Ethel Smyth – a wrecker with a cause. "Jailed for her activities in the Suffragette movement, composer Ethel Smyth had no problem putting her beliefs into action"

Posted by kluciole at 10/28/2009 11:16 AM | Add Comment

Ending the silence on 'honour killing' -- those who have escaped violence are speaking out to break the code of silence

Posted by kluciole at 10/26/2009 8:39 AM | Add Comment

How women are changing the face of Japanese politics

Posted by kluciole at 10/25/2009 1:00 PM | Add Comment

Women Marines want a chance outside the Afghan wire

Posted by kluciole at 10/25/2009 12:02 AM | Add Comment

"Miracle" baby Ali Yakubov, on whose body "verses from the Koran appear and fade every few days," gives hope in Russian Muslim south

Posted by kluciole at 10/23/2009 7:26 AM | Add Comment

Australian town back-flips after cutting ties with its Japanese "sister-city" Taiji over its slaughter of dolphins

Posted by kluciole at 10/23/2009 7:20 AM | View Comments (1) | Add Comment

100,000 women sign petition saying they're offended by Italian Prime Minister Berlusconi's sexist behavior

Posted by kluciole at 10/22/2009 1:14 PM | Add Comment

Only 22 countries are paid-in-full members of U.N.

Posted by kluciole at 10/21/2009 6:31 PM | View Comments (2) | Add Comment

Kuwait grants women passports without spousal nod

Posted by kluciole at 10/21/2009 4:28 AM | View Comments (2) | Add Comment

Charles Wesley Mumbere, a former nurse's aide in the U.S., becomes Ugandan king

Posted by kluciole at 10/20/2009 8:48 AM | Add Comment

Supreme Court agrees to hear plea from Uighur inmates in Guantanamo Bay prison to be freed in the United States

Posted by kluciole at 10/20/2009 8:35 AM | Add Comment

White House expects thousands on fall garden tours

Posted by kluciole at 10/19/2009 3:05 AM | Add Comment

Start planning for Pacific warming refugees: scientist

Posted by kluciole at 10/19/2009 2:52 AM | Add Comment

Artist Shepard Fairey admits using other photo for Barack Obama "Hope" poster

Posted by kluciole at 10/17/2009 5:07 AM | Add Comment

TIME article: Albania Asks India for Mother Teresa's Remains

Posted by kluciole at 10/16/2009 11:12 AM | Add Comment

U.N. rights body considers condemning Israel on Gaza

Posted by kluciole at 10/15/2009 9:09 AM | Add Comment

Experts warn glaciers in Indian Kashmir are melting

Posted by kluciole at 10/13/2009 10:21 PM | Add Comment

Court rules against Stalin's grandson in libel suit

Posted by kluciole at 10/13/2009 10:17 PM | View Comments (2) | Add Comment

Tea partiers turn on GOP leadership

Posted by kluciole at 10/11/2009 11:18 PM | View Comments (2) | Add Comment

Poem: "The Man's Last Wish" by Anna Maria Lenngren (1754-1817) -- Swedish writer, poet, feminist and salonist

Posted by kluciole at 10/9/2009 11:40 PM | View Comments (2) | Add Comment

Stalin's grandson sues newspaper for libel; claims the Novaya Gazeta "falsely claimed he was a mass murderer"

Posted by kluciole at 10/9/2009 12:04 AM | Add Comment

Nobel Peace Prize may return to activist roots. UPDATE: In a surprise, Obama wins Nobel Peace Prize

Posted by kluciole at 10/8/2009 11:55 PM | Add Comment

Israeli foreign minister: "No chance for peace deal anytime soon"

Posted by kluciole at 10/8/2009 3:34 AM | Add Comment

Iran closes three newspapers

Posted by kluciole at 10/6/2009 1:41 AM | Add Comment

"Olympian dreams and favela realities collide in Rio de Janeiro -- the documentary Dancing With the Devil depicts what's at stake if the city fails to get its act together"

Posted by kluciole at 10/5/2009 2:52 PM | View Comments (1) | Add Comment

TIME article: "How a 'Miracle' Biofuel Plant Ruined Kenyan Farmers"

Posted by kluciole at 10/4/2009 9:05 PM | View Comments (1) | Add Comment

One of my favorite articles ever: Love between German and Pole survives Iron Curtain -- for five decades, Elvira Profe kept Fortunat Mackiewicz's picture in her wallet

Posted by kluciole at 10/3/2009 9:50 AM | Add Comment

Oil photo exhibit opens in D.C. -- "Edward Burtynsky: Oil" is at the Corcoran Gallery of Art

Posted by kluciole at 10/3/2009 9:41 AM | Add Comment

Excerpt from a short story by Jeanette Winterson, in response to the climate crisis

Posted by kluciole at 9/27/2009 1:37 AM | Add Comment

Geography makes a difference in health coverage

Posted by kluciole at 9/24/2009 11:06 AM | Add Comment
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