The poor do not need reminding that they are poor nor do they equate journalism with its' potential to solve society's problems.

The rest of the trip was spent in similar fashion, desperately trying to get access and then at the last minute getting what I needed.

On the ground, the ruggedness of the Hindu Kush leaves little doubt that one could easily hide here or fail to secure and control its perimeter.

...it seemed to me as if their loved ones had just departed, not some 18 years ago with the end of the war.

The first day I headed straight for Beichuan County a small town a few hours drive from Chengdu which was one of the worst effected areas.

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Looking at certain maps of Africa, especially those produced in the last century, you'd be forgiven for thinking that the Congo actually had something resembling a decent road network.

She closed the book after praying and singing with her sisters and turned her eyes back to the street in hopes of catching a glimpse of the holiest man she knows.

Ain't gonna happen, man. Everybody wants a piece of Rampage

That day at least 20 missiles were fired from Gaza at Ashkelon.

The refugees found places to live in shut down army barracks, schools and hotels and, unfortunately, most still live there.

Above the senator was a dive-bomber from WWII and on either side of him were veterans and Boy Scouts.

Getting to my spot on the red carpet at the Kodak Theatre at Hollywood and Highland is a bit like running an obstacle course.

Decades of swinging from feudal democracy to blunt dictatorship have left people here beyond cynicism.

I stand in the shade outside the Catholic Church in Kisumu waiting for the march for peace to set off.

Any minute now the Kenyan paramilitary General Service Unit was going to charge the mob of protesters in the Kibera slum of Nairobi.

With no electricity outside of the capital and virtually no paved roads, it is a land abandoned.

The dispersing crowd and thinning smoke revealed the hideous aftermath of the bomb

But when I heard a cheer erupt, I turned around, and there she was.