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Audio blog: Faith amid the ruins

An impromptu church service and steel drums in the park draw hundreds of faithful

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Two employees of a downtown cafe in Nashville, Tennessee, formed a human barricade, November 25, 1962, to keep black sit-in demonstrators from entering. Shortly before the action shown above, the owner, Herschel Erwin, was arrested and charged with disorderly conduct for squirting a fire extinguisher at the demonstrators.
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Racial change was slow in coming – until Nashville

How the South has changed - and how it hasn’t - since the lunch counter protests 50 years ago

Pietro Masturzo, an Italian freelance photographer, has won the World Press Photo of the Year 2009 award with this picture of women shouting in protest from a rooftop in Tehran
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World Press Pictures of the Year

See the 2009 pictures of the year, including the winning shot that captured the spirit of protest in Iran

Zimbabwe's Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai, left, and President Robert Mugabe
Geoffrey York

Zimbabwe: A nation with little to celebrate

On the anniversary of historic coalition deal between reformists and Mugabe, few of the changes it promised have come through

Timothy Garton Ash

Ukraine's not yet lost to Europe

After the Yanukovych reversal, how can the EU help Kiev gravitate toward a freer future?

An unidentified woman is taken into custody by Huntsville, Ala. police Friday, Feb 12, 2010 in connection with fatal shootings on the University of Alabama in Huntsville campus in the Shelby Center in Huntsville, Ala.

Fatal shooting at staff meeting in Alabama university rocks community

Faculty member shoots colleagues during meeting; instructor reportedly denied tenure

Project Jacmel

One month later, Haiti's despair deepens

On a national day of mourning, a mood of weary fatalism grips the earthquake-stricken country

Switzerland won't extradite Polanski while appeal is before U.S. courts

As new film premieres in Berlin, exiled director's decades-old legal fight takes another twist

Last Kennedy in Washington won't run for re-election

Patrick Kennedy says his life is 'taking a new direction' just months after the death of his father and mentor, Edward Kennedy

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U.S. Air Force destroys target missile with high-powered laser

Weapon mounted on jumbo jet fired energy beam that blew up missile in milestone test

Snowfall surprise in Florida, Texas

Vancouver can't buy a snow storm, but schools close as Deep South struggles with rare snow

Bowing to opposition, Holder may abort civilian 9/11 trial

Attorney General Eric Holder is leaving open the possibility of trying professed Sept. 11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed before a military commission

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Zuma's polygamy undermines AIDS fight

It may play well politically, but the South African leader's multiple sexual partners weakens and contradicts all of the work that he has done in the fight against the epidemic

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Yemen loves that strange narcotic

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Google and China go to war

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Dateline Peking

Fifty years ago, The Globe and Mail became the first Western newspaper to open a bureau in what was then known as Red China.

Chinese paramilitary police officer stands guard in front of Tiananmen gate in Beijing, China, Tuesday.