with a chunk called East Pakistan that lay in Bengal in the west. The decision was fateful: It stranded hundreds of thousands of Hindus and Muslims in the “wrong” new nation and separated ...

This region's unique combination of socio-economic, political ... and parts of the West African coast. The increase in piracy, particularly in the early 2000s, led to a higher demand for ...

When we first traveled to China, in the early 1990s, it was very different from what we see today. Even in Beijing many people wore Mao suits and cycled everywhere; only senior Chinese Communist ...

Storm development can depend on the status of the West African Monsoon. That's what sends clusters of thunderstorms to the Atlantic, which can then become a tropical system. What can limit that ...

The Humane Society bought the 6,000-square-foot former Moose Lodge on four acres on U.S. Highway 93 South in the summer of 2002. Its campaign to remodel and add on to the building to make a new ...