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PAKISTAN: Child slavery -- 20,000 children with small heads are run by the shrines for beggary

No one knows about the reality and sad saga of these greenish veiled and shaved head individuals carried by their masters with a chain about their necks to get the sympathies of the masses for the sake of begging.The worst...

The humanities and war

As re-enactors don the blue and the gray to commemorate the Civil War’s 150th anniversary, young men and women dressed in fatigues are locked in combat half a world away under the flag of a nation that was reshaped by that...

Lessons of the hunt

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Joseph S. Nye Jr. (from left), Juliette Kayyem, and R. Nicholas Burns offer their perspectives on the...

Apple iPhone 4 Antenna Works with Bumper: Consumer Reports

Consumer Reports retested the Apple iPhone 4, this time with a “bumper” case on it, and found the bumper fixed the smartphone’s antenna issues. Still, the magazine said it was up to Apple, not consumers, to pay for such a...