Search results for

An Australian television network is making public a series of previously unpublished images from 2003 that show U.S. soldiers abusing prisoners at Iraq's Abu Ghraib prison. Many of the images are similar to those that first appeared nearly two years ago. But others are even more graphic and brutal.

Pérez died on Friday at age 67. In a career that spanned over four decades, Pérez's meticulous pencil was behind some of the biggest comic book heroes.

If faced with a bird flu pandemic, the Bush administration would divert the nation's limited supplies of the antiviral drug Tamiflu to medical personnel, says Health and Human Services Secretary Michael Leavitt.

A profile of a company that specializes in making "the couch" for therapists' offices. Kathleen Horan of member station WNYC reports.

New York City announced reforms this week following the death of a 7-year-old girl allegedly killed by her stepfather. Some experts are voicing concerns about the city's emphasis on keeping families together. Cindy Rodriguez of member station WNYC reports.

It's the best and worst of times for the U.S. Olympic team at the Winter Games in Turin. The U.S. women won gold and silver medals in the snowboard halfpipe event, but women's downhill medal hopeful Lindsay Kildow crashed in a training run and was rushed to a hospital by helicopter.

A small group of workers at the video game company Activision Blizzard won an election to form a union. It could signal a big change in an industry that has a bullying and harassment problem.

Bukavu was once a Congolese tourist capital, offering beautiful vistas of lush green hills. Now the town is home to crumbling, abandoned brick buildings and beat-up roads. But as the July 30 elections approach, there is a feeling that life may soon improve.

Proust sure had it right, writes Gail Chalew. Tasting a familiar food can trigger instant memories of simpler, happier times. For this returned New Orleans evacuee, green tomatoes, that piquant and uniquely Southern delicacy, are the food inextricably linked to the Big Easy.

Each Thursday we read from listeners' emails. Pluto's demotion from full-fledged planet to "dwarf planet" has brought in a lot of letters. We hear your creative suggestion of a new status for Pluto. Also, comments on a mixup in a cemetery, and new lyrics for the old musical "The Fantasticks".