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Darwin on trial Evolution hearings open in Kansas
TOPEKA, Kan. (Reuters) - A six-day courtroom-style debate opened on Thursday in Kansas over what children should be taught in schools about the origin of life -- was it natural ...
Water shortages threaten Yemen's poverty fight
SANAA, Yemen (Reuters) - When temperatures rise above 86 degrees in Yemen, private water tankers race through the streets to supply households left dry by public shortages.
Headscarved Turkish women feel angry, marginalized
ANKARA (Reuters) - Muruvvet Aktas, fired from her teaching job for wearing the Muslim headscarf, has not entered a school for years because it makes her feel very uncomfortable.
Judge takes on S.Africa's AIDS 'denialists'
JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - White, wealthy and proudly gay, Judge Edwin Cameron is hardly a typical face of the AIDS pandemic ravaging southern Africa.
Central America lags on labor rights for trade deal
GUATEMALA CITY (Reuters) - Sitting in a dark room beneath photographs of union leaders slain in the 1980s, workers at a Guatemalan factory say they have been punched, threatened and ...
A year on, EU's eastern frontier holds up
DOROHUSK, Poland (Reuters) - Polish border guard Colonel Andrzej Wojcik beams as he shows off Land Rovers, night vision cameras and bullet-proof vests neatly labeled with a European ...
North Korea's urban poor at bottom of the pile
SEOUL (Reuters) - If North Korea is one of the world's most impoverished countries, then those living in cities in the isolated communist state are close to the bottom of the food chain.
Washington Nationals stirs buzz among baseball fans
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - In this politically divided city, avid baseball fans have at least found common ground during the barren 34 years Washington subsisted without a Major League team.
A year on, change slow on former EU frontier
PORAJOW, Poland (Reuters) - A German clerk at a Polish gas station senses confusion and smiles.
Afrikaners Celebrate Language They Fear May Vanish
OUDTSHOORN, South Africa (Reuters) - South Africa's Afrikaans language is perhaps best known for the term "apartheid," but for a new generation of Afrikaans speakers the most important ...
Grateful Dead's Dark, Light Sides in Member's Book
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Grateful Dead experienced a lot of darkness for a band that helped spark the peace-and-love psychedelic era and became one of biggest rock acts in history.
S.Africa's Vundla Drives Showbiz Black Empowerment
JOHANNESBURG, South Africa (Reuters) - South Africa's top soap opera "Generations" is as black as can be.
New NY Restaurant Turns Immigrants Into Owners
NEW YORK (Reuters) - It's the American dream, but for a group of immigrant workers whose colleagues were killed in the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks on the World Trade Center, opening a new ...
Kenyan Women Take Risks with Backstreet Abortions
NAIROBI (Reuters) - It was futile to keep on wishing that the baby would disappear, so Anne decided to take fate into her own hands and a kitchen knife to her belly.
Flies, Fish and a South African Success Story
CLARENS, South Africa (Reuters) - Mpho Mashila has never caught a fish in her life but she ties a mean fly.
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