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Charging your iPhone? Now there's a hat for that.

A team of German researchers have created a solar-powered helmet that charges mobile devices even in freezing temperatures. Yes, it still looks dorky.
Ecuador’s green president pushes massive Chinese mine

Correa says: “We cannot be beggars sitting on a bag of gold.”
Video: After tsunami, mother and child

Kumiko Abe no longer believes officials when they talk about radiation risks.
Video: After tsunami, a fisherman's story

A year ago, Shigeatsu Hatakeyama scrambled up a hill holding his grandson.

Life Sentence: Women and Justice in Afghanistan

Life Sentence: Women and justice in Afghanistan

Charles M. Sennott - March 7, 2012 07:13

GlobalPost has spent several months unearthing other facts and previously untold stories of women and girls caught in the labyrinth of Afghan’s corrupt and failing judicial system. full story

Afghan women trapped in tribal court system
In Afghanistan, children behind bars
Afghan women and the Rule of Law conundrum
In Photos: Women serve time in Afghanistan

The Rainbow Struggle: A global battle over gay rights

Russia's assault on 'gay' free speech

Khristina Narizhnaya - March 18, 2012 07:53

MOSCOW — Russian LGBTs say the message they are receiving from both the state and the Russian Orthodox Church is simple: Homosexuality may be legal, but stay out of public life. full story

LGBT rights window closing in Egypt
State Department sea change on LGBTs
Serbia: A 'gay ghetto' in modern Europe
Gay allure in Cambodia’s ancient city
Obama pushes LGBT rights into limelight
The gray area of gay refugees
The importance of global LGBT news
LGBTI refugees seek haven in Lebanon
Nepal's other revolution: Red to pink
Sweden still sterilizing transgendered
Opinion: A globalized LGBT rights fight
Madrid bookseller pushes LGBT visibility
Spain: Gays fear backlash after advances
Argentina: Building on same-sex marriage
'Honor killing' targets Turkey's LGBTs
S. Africa: Violence haunts gays
The making of Dan Choi
Gays in the Army: The ongoing battle
The Rainbow Struggle: A primer

Fault Line: Aid, Politics and Blame in Post-Quake Haiti

Haitian farmers call on US to stop subsidizing its own

Jacob Kushner - April 12, 2012 06:05

PORT-AU-PRINCE — Deep within Haiti’s beautiful Artibonite Valley, a man wades barefoot through loose mud that comes up to his knees. Bending over, he takes individual strands of rice seed from a clump in one hand, stuffing them quickly into the mud one by one. full story

Food aid reformers seek place in Farm Bill debate
Haiti’s $2M Parliament building sits unfinished
Post-quake US food hurt Haiti farmers
Haiti: Where did the money go?
In the camps, row after row of despair
Amid Haiti's ruins, the power of art
A success story: Teach a man to fish
Haitian diaspora reaches back home
Haiti's politics of blame
Seeking truth in the 'NGO republic'

Healing the World

Deadly tuberculosis a specter on Europe

John Donnelly - December 30, 2011 07:14

GENEVA — Belarus needed help. It had just confirmed a study that found 35 percent of all TB cases in the capital of Minsk were multi-drug resistant TB (MDR-TB) — the highest rate in the world ever recorded for the deadly disease, which takes up to two years to treat and is cured in Western Europe only one third of the time. full story

Tell stories that matter: USAID chief
Funding issues threaten AIDS fight
Rwanda: Coordination poor in health plan
Kenya: A glimpse into GHI's future
GHI's missing piece in Nepal
Guatemala: The drain of malnutrition
Maternal death stalks Malawi
GHI: A rough beginning
The mishandling of Obama's GHI
Special report: healing the world Q&A
Healing the world: survey of 8 countries
Healing the world: Bangladesh
Healing the world: Ethiopia
Healing the world: Guatemala
Healing the world: Kenya
Healing the world: Malawi
Healing the world: Mali
Healing the world: Nepal
Healing the world: Rwanda

"The Army, The People..."

The money behind the Egyptian military

Charles M. Sennott - January 22, 2012 22:47

CAIRO – Will the military relinquish its executive power as it has promised to the Egyptian people and guaranteed to its US benefactor? full story

Military trials suppress Egypt dissent
Egyptian-Americans advise on 'new Egypt'
The black box of Egyptian military power
Egypt's forgotten revolutionaries
Mohammed Abbas: Running for Revolution

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Paul Ames - April 7, 2012 07:54

BRUSSELS — Too many European companies have been slow to adapt to a rapidly changing market and relied for too long on government subsidies, according to Reinhold Buttgereit, secretary general of the European Photovoltaic Industry Association. “This was never realistic and now it’s time to realize that those days are over,” he said. full story

Video: A tsunami orphan returns home

But her homecoming is shrouded in mystery.

Charging your iPhone? Now there's a hat for that.

A team of German researchers have created a solar-powered helmet that charges mobile devices even in freezing temperatures. Yes, it still looks dorky.

South Africa poisons horns to save rhino

Wildlife experts hope booby-trapped horns will dissuade poachers.

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