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We're on a crowded shopping street in Lahore, Pakistan, alongside the shrine to Data Ganj Baksh, one of the holiest places in the country. The shrine of a Muslim saint, it's a giant rectangle surrounded on all sides by giant white stone arches. This location was bombed last year. So we thought Thursday night, a very busy night at the shrine, would be a good night to ask people about what's happening in Pakistan.

Protests against President Ali Abdullah Saleh started in the first week of February and have since intensified

Inmates at California's Chino State Prison sit inside a metal cage in the hallway as they wait to be assigned permanent housing or for medical, mental health, counselor or other appointments.

India's bid to get a permanent seat in the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) has got another boost after Uzbekistan assured of full support.

Fordham University students Abhishek Mehra, left, and Allison Murray, right, with Professor R.P. Raghupathi, center, who won an IBM Smarter Planet Faculty Award for helping students design high-tech solutions to global problems.

The World Trade Organization’s Appellate Body today confirmed that Airbus received $18 billion in illegal “launch aid” and other subsidies from European governments.