Both the Syrian government and armed rebels blame each other for the violence there, that doesn’t seem to be lessening despite the UN observers now in the country.
A new study suggests that the longer term consequences of brain injuries are more serious than previously thought, and they’re similar to what many athletes experience as a result of head injuries.
Many Greeks have had enough of the belt-tightening imposed by the European Union. Some say exiting the eurozone would allow the Greek economy to recover, faster.
Saudi Arabian professor of economics, Mohammad al-Qahtani, believes the government is cracking down on Saudi civil rights activists, like himself.
While some in Serbia paint walls with murals and graffiti praising Mladic, others continue to paint over it.
Reporter Allan Little has a reflection on the day he met Bosnia Serb General Ratko Mladic. “I shook his hand,” Little said. “He held it firmly and wouldn’t let go for what seemed to me to be many minutes. He drew unnervingly close – just a few inches from my face.”
Fuentes was known throughout the world for his novels, many of them critical of modern-day Mexico.
For the Geo Quiz, we are looking for a vast area that used a common currency, about 2,000 years ago.
Rapper Shahin Najafi received a fatwa this past week for his controversial new song, Naqi. An Islamic website posted a $100,000 bounty on his life. But what’s really the controversy?
UN observers in Syria find themselves dangerously close to violence. Also, why some candidates want to pay higher taxes. And behind the scenes of the greatest operatic challenge.
Syrian government forces reportedly opened fire on a crowd in a northern town that was being visited by UN monitors on Tuesday. Several people were killed. The UN also said that vehicles in the observers’ convoy were also damaged during the visit.
Anchor Lisa Mullins talks with Kasra Naji, of the BBC’s Persian service, about the execution in Iran of Majid Jamali Fashi, who was accused of killing a nuclear physicist there in 2010.
There’s a tax revolt going on in Canada. People there want to pay higher taxes. The World’s Jason Margolis has our story.
New York’s Metropolitan Opera just ended its first run of a brand new “Ring” cycle. Several years ago, the Met asked visionary playwright and theater director Robert Lepage to produce Wagner’s epic four-part “Ring of the Nibelungen.”
