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May 16, 2013
6:20 am
Every year on May 17, people all around the world celebrate the International Day against Homophobia and Transphobia, while reflecting how to achieve full equality and non-discrimination. In Cameroon, a young man was sentenced to three years in prison for sending a text message to another man, saying “I’ve fallen in love with you.” The young man’s brave lawyer received emails and text messages threatening to kill his wife and kids. When the lawyer showed the death threats to the police, their response was, “Stop defending gays and you will be fine.” So in Cameroon you can end up behind bars for sending a message of love, but the authorities look the other way when someone threatens to kill children.
May 15, 2013
2:06 pm
Columbia University is struggling to get rid of its whites-only scholarship that has been around since 1920.
May 15, 2013
10:40 am
Analysis: Pouncing on the AP phone records probe and the IRS scandal, right and left finally unite — in excoriating the White House.
May 13, 2013
6:08 pm
Bernie Zak, an 18-year-old senior at Brookline High School, was placed on the wait-list to get into UCLA but was later accepted.
May 9, 2013
6:03 am
Simply having a copy of Al Qaeda's Inspire is a crime in the UK.
May 8, 2013
9:53 pm
Elizabeth Warren introduces her first bill -- the Bank of Students Loan Fairness Act.
May 8, 2013
6:55 am
Hawking wrote a letter to the Israeli president saying that he had changed his mind about headlining the Facing Tomorrow conference.
May 8, 2013
6:18 am
On a grand scale, Ivory Coast's economy is growing quickly. For young Ivorians, though, those widely touted gains are mere abstractions.
May 6, 2013
2:01 pm
Chinese social media has exploded with debate about the unsolved case of Zhu Ling, a pretty, gifted student who was poisoned in 1995.
May 4, 2013
5:22 pm
The theropod called "Aurun zhaio" or "Dragon King" was discovered by American biologist James Clark and his team in the Xinjiang region of northwestern China.
May 1, 2013
3:25 pm
The fellowships support, young reporters in Myanmar as well as Libya, Nigeria, India and other under-reported corners of the world.
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