Followed by about 500 men, they demand that the government purge anyone connected to the Taliban, war crimes or corruption. Many hold pictures of slain relatives.

Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri Maliki, beset by criticism, will address parliament today about the recent spate of attacks. A government spokesman downplays the decision to demote Gen. Aboud Qanbar.

The ousted leader, holed up for months in the Brazilian Embassy, has refused to seek political asylum, saying he wants to travel as the legitimate president of Honduras.

Armed men are reported to have abducted dozens of students and teachers in the southern Philippines, reports say.

Growing numbers of girls in Senegal are being raped, with abuse often happening while they are at school. "I wanted to be a lawyer, that was my dream," says a young Senegalese girl, smiling.

Students are now graduating with a new degree in this type of sustainable lifestyle, focusing more on the MBA subject of environmentally-friendly businesses, rather on the Wall-Street oriented future.

CIUDAD JUAREZ, Mexico - "Not one person murdered yesterday," Ciudad Juarez's leading newspaper proclaimed in a banner headline.

Iran is further refusing to comply with U.S., IAEA, and the global community's list of negotiable demands, which is escalating tensions across the worldwide chess-board.

After the State Minister of Woman Affairs, Mrs. Nawal Al-Samara'i declared at the beginning of 2009 that there are thousands of women detainees and prisoner exposed to the worst kinds of violations, that they are living in inhuman conditions, that their n

French journalist and filmmaker Marie-Monique Robin examines the dark and troubling influence of American chemical and biotech giant Monsanto. Her incendiary film documents a corporate legacy of greed, death, poverty and illness --from the creation (and