On Tuesday, July 22, 2014, the Obama Administration announced they would conduct a major study on female genital mutilation (FGM), assessing how many U.S. women are at risk or are victims. Currently, 130 million females live with FGM in 29 countriies.

Plainfield - Babar and Haris Suleman took off from Indiana last month, attempting to fly around the world in 30 days in a single-engine plane, all in aid of charity. Tragedy has struck close to the end, as they crashed near an airport in American Samoa.

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Kiev - Residents of Ukraine's embattled Crimea region learned Friday they probably won't be "lovin' it" at a McDonald's restaurant anytime soon after the US-based chain said it was temporarily suspending operations there.

Toronto - Evelyne de la Chenelière's Flesh and Other Fragments of Love begins with a discovered corpse but the emotional core of this Toronto production is very much alive as a married couple explore their own fears and frailties.

San Francisco - The Internet Archive's new Wayback Machine is now online. It is an improvement over the last version, so be certain to use it.

The return for a Boston homeless man, Glen James on his act of honesty keeps growing. James turned in a backpack he found with $42,000 in it and another man, impressed by the deed, set up a donation website for him.

There has there likely never been an albino Burmese python found crawling about in the wilds of British Columbia, at least not until recently. But there is, as the cliche goes, a first time for everything.

The trial of Archbishop Kenneth William (Seraphim) Storheim, highest-ranking cleric in the Canadian diocese of the Orthodox Church in America, began in Winnipeg Monday. The archbishop is accused of sexually assaulting two brothers in the mid-eighties.

Entrepreneur Jamen Shively held a press conference in Seattle on Thursday and, with former Mexican president Vincente Fox by his side, said he's going ahead with plans to market a national brand of marijuana. He believes he can be the Starbucks of pot.

Former Beatle Paul McCartney joined a list of people calling for the release of a member of the Russian band, Pussy Riot. McCartney wrote on his website that Maria Alyokhina's punishment should end. Two members of the band are still in prison.

The media's latest blow-up of a Justin Bieber story has come in the form of a visit he paid, out of respect, to the Anne Frank House in Amsterdam. It's where Frank hid from Nazis for so long, eventually being captured and sent to her death in a camp.

While some media jumped the gun and erroneously reported Cardinal Timothy Dolan would not be partaking in the Democrats convention next week, Dolan in fact will. He'd been asked by the Democrats to lead the closing prayer and will do so.

If soccer balls could talk this one would tell a story about floating and floating and then floating. It is from a school in Japan and was swept out to sea in last year's Tsunami and, after a year of floating, it has turned up on an Alaskan shore.

Brad Pitt, a father of 6 and the mate of Angelina Jolie, as well as a gifted actor, might not have all of that if he didn't take a trip to Morocco and he didn't quit smoking pot. He recently opened up to a well-known magazine about that and marriage.

The former Governor of Alaska, Sarah Palin, has spoken out against Alaska Airlines for their intended removal of prayer cards which have long been part of their service. The cards are given to passengers with in-flight meals.

Today is Veterans Day. It is a day of honor, a chance for Americans to show its gratitude to the men and women who have served in the armed forces.

Two Polynesian islands in the South Pacific are running so low on water its residents expect to run out of drinking water within one to two weeks. Tokelau and Tuvalu are typical tropical islands of paradise but now they face an environmental crisis.

This coming Monday marks the 43rd anniversary of civil rights activist Martin Luther King's assassination in Memphis Tennessee, April 4,1968.

New guidelines released by the U.S. CPSC recommend gutting thousands of home tainted by corrosive, potentially unhealthy Chinese drywall. Some samples of the drywall emit 100 times as much hydrogen sulfide as drywall made elsewhere