(Earth Focus: Episode 51) Gray wolves once ranged across North America. But by the 1930s, they were nearly extinct -- trapped, poisoned and hunted by ranchers, farmers, and government agents...

The Free Syrian Army's Chief of Staff, Brigadier General Salim Idris, called on European governments to give the opposition the arms it needs to defeat President Bashar al-Assad. These statements...

The Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund (MALDEF) -- the nation's leading Latino legal civil rights organization -- hosts the 2013 Latino State of the Union policy round table.

Cirque Shems'y sits on the edge of one of Morocco's poorest slums, offering disadvantaged children a chance to build a brighter future. Witness joins the circus to meet its young...

Contraception may not be the first thing that comes to mind when you think of elephants. But a new contraceptive vaccine is saving elephants in South Africa's reserves and parks...

Coral reefs provide habitat for 25% of the world's fish species, and they are steeply declining worldwide. The Florida Keys are home to the world's third largest tropical barrier reef,...

(Earth Focus: Episode 52) US domestic gas production is on the rise because of hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, a controversial method of extracting natural gas from shale rock by pumping...

French forces say fighting in Mali has claimed the lives of two al-Qaeda leaders in recent days, although only one of the deaths has been confirmed. Fighting also reportedly claimed...

Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak opened the AIPAC conference by outlining Iran's nuclear threat, specifying it could not be dealt with using diplomacy alone. While AIPAC, America's largest pro-Israel lobby...

(LinkAsia: 3/1/13) Li Tianyi, son of beloved Chinese singer Li Shuangjiang, has been arrested for gang rape. Tianyi and four other men were taken into custody in Beijing after the...

(LinkAsia: 3/1/13) Park Geun-hye, South Korea's first female president, entered office this past week with the lowest approval rating in the country's history for an incoming president. LinkAsia speaks with...

(LinkAsia: 3/1/13) India and Pakistan's ruling parties are both grooming young men to take over. Forty-three year old Rahul Gandhi is the scion of the Nehru-Gandhi dynasty that has ruled...

(LinkAsia: 3/1/13) Due to lax regulations, factories across China have dumped toxic waste and chemicals into local rivers and lakes for years. Villages downstream have seen an explosion in cancer...

(LinkAsia: 3/1/13) A side effect of rapid industrialization and few regulations, China's rivers are often treated as little more than sewers. But as LinkAsia contributor Mark Dreyer reports, an online...

MUSIC MAN tells the story of professor and inventor Ge Wang who teaches computer music at Stanford University where he began the innovative Stanford Laptop Orchestra. Wang believes everyone who...