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What Iranians think of Benjamin Netanyahu's speech to Congress

05.03.2015 15:28
Benjamin Netanyahu's speech in front of U.S. Congress was never intended to reach an audience in Iran, but it certainly did. While Iranian media outlets did not show it live, many people said they would seek out what the Israeli Prime Minister had to say because the negotiations with world...

"A good education can lift you...into a life you never could have imagined"

05.03.2015 15:25
President Obama and the First Lady have teamed up with the Peace Corps to expand access to education for adolescent girls around the world through the Let Girls Learn initiative. “A good education can lift you from the most humble circumstances into a life you never could have imagined.” — First...

7 women who changed the world

05.03.2015 15:14
All of these women left a mark on the world that would change people's thinking for decades -- in some cases centuries -- to come. They wrote books that revolutionized people's view of society; made scientific discoveries that transformed medicine as we know it; and brought about laws that...

Nearly 2 Billion Women Worldwide Are Struggling, Suffering

05.03.2015 15:10
While International Women's Day this Sunday will focus mostly on how the world thinks women are doing, it's important to understand how the women of the world think they are doing. The best way to find this out is to ask them. This International Women's Day, more than one in four women worldwide...

Afghan men don burqas, take to the streets for women's rights

05.03.2015 15:08
A group of Afghan men marched through the capital, Kabul, on Thursday to draw attention to women's rights by donning head-to-toe burqas that for many people worldwide have come to symbolise the suppression of women. The hardline Taliban forced women to wear burqas in public during their rule in...

Study finds gorilla origins in half of human AIDS virus lineages

05.03.2015 15:00
Revealing new details about the origins of AIDS, scientists said on Monday half the lineages of the main type of human immunodeficiency virus, HIV-1, originated in gorillas in Cameroon before infecting people, probably via bushmeat hunting. HIV-1, which causes AIDS, is composed of four groups,...

U.S. science probe nears unexplored dwarf planet Ceres

05.03.2015 14:58
- A NASA science satellite on Friday will wrap up a 7-1/2-year journey to Ceres, an unexplored dwarf planet in the main asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter, scientists said on Monday. The Dawn spacecraft visited the asteroid Vesta before firing its electric ion engine to continue on to Ceres, a...

Israel uses military expertise to join commercial space race

05.03.2015 14:55
Israel is embarking on a five-year mission to stake its claim on a crowded new frontier, the $250 billion a year commercial space market. Using the expertise of a defense industry that created technology such as the "Iron Dome" missile interceptor, Israel plans to move beyond its current focus on...

Dimming Dream for Israelis and Palestinians

05.03.2015 14:50
The notion that Israelis and Palestinians can share the Holy Land living in separate, independent nations has been a seductive goal for eight decades. The vision has driven on-and-off peace talks for 21 years. The latest round foundered in April 2014, giving way to a growing sentiment that the...

Three Measures Of Slack In Japan’s Labor Markets

05.03.2015 14:47
Japan’s salarymen are famous for their long-hours culture. There’s even a word — karoshi — for death by overwork. Why hasn’t that translated into higher wages? Headline unemployment is at an enviably low 3.6 percent and corporate profits are strong. The trouble is that substantial...
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