When Doctor Gregory Anderson and Doctor K. David Harrison set off to a few remote Russian villages, they took only the bare essentials: toothbrushes, socks, and microphones, video cameras, and audio recorders.
Thousands of Georgians paid their last respects today to luger Nodar Kumaritashvili, who died during a training run in Vancouver just hours before the start of the games. But some in his hometown of Bakuriani now worry the horrifying accident will end the long luge tradition in this mountain resort, famous for raising generations of world-class winter athletes.
More civilians are trickling into Lashkar Gah, capital of Afghanistan's southern Helmand Province, fleeing the week-old NATO and Afghan offensive that aims to clear the Taliban out of the agricultural town of Marjah, a major insurgent stronghold and smuggling crossroads.
In a new report, the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) suggests for the first time that Iran is actively pursuing a nuclear-weapons capability. Shannon Kile, a senior nonproliferation expert at the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute, discussed the report and the tougher mood at the UN watchdog agency.
Turkmen President Gurbanguly Berdymukhammedov surprised his country on February 18 by calling for the creation of opposition political parties, in a country that hasn't had one in over 18 years since independence.
Of the more than 6,700 languages spoken in the world, half are in danger of disappearing before the century ends. But what is lost when a language dies and why does the process occur?
What keeps Iran's Green Movement alive, despite being muscled off the streets? One big factor is anger over President Mahmud Ahmadinejad's peculiar vision of economics.
As the 60th anniversary Berlinale film festival enters its final days this weekend, critics are lining up with predictions about who will be awarded the coveted Golden Bear on February 20.
Some descendents of the Romanov dynasty are challenging a decision to close a probe into the last tsar's murder and say it's time for Russia to make amends for its blood-soaked past.
The weather is cold and the skies are cloudy. As the Iranian poet Akhavan Saales wrote, it is the type of weather when “no one wants to say hello, everything is cold, [and] no one pulls out his hand to shake yours."
President Barack Obama's decision to nominate a U.S. ambassador to Syria after a five-year absence restores a diplomatic relationship that just two years ago would have been unthinkable. But now that Syria is a key player in the Middle East region, what is Washington hoping to get from Damascus?
A new report says hundreds of thousands of Iraqis who fled their homes during seven years of war and now live as refugees and internally displaced persons are living in poverty and chronic uncertainty. The report says Iraqi who are unable to return home face growing desperation in exile.
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