The longtime Weekend Edition Sunday host announces her plan to retire at the end of May 2011.

GREENBELT, Md., June 1 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The Landsat Data Continuity Mission (LDCM) reached a major milestone last week when it successfully completed its Mission Critical Design Review (CDR). (Logo:

After 20 years of hosting Weekend Edition Sunday Liane Hansen says goodbye to NPR. Memorial Day has always marked a time of change for Hansen -- and next year's will mark the end of her time behind the mic.

IT IS over. The experiment to get Rudo Dumbutshena and David Malindi hitched has failed.

Whenever I bury my face in my palm cogitating about the disastrous rapidity or frequency at which Ghana's human right laws are being infringed upon under President Mills' administration, tears well up in my eyes. Most often have tears trickled down my cheeks into my palm and on to the floor.

State Civil Defense will be conducting its monthly test of the outdoor siren warning system today.

SARASOTA, Fla., June 1 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ - Roper Industries, Inc. announced that it is presenting at an investor conference sponsored by J.P. Morgan ...

The deadline for the sale of Crystal Palace passes, but the Championship club remain hopeful of avoiding liquidation.

Editorial Reminds Writer Who Moved Next Door to Former Gov. That Alaska Allows Deadly Force "In Protection of Life and Property"

David Murray, Honiara Last Updated: Tue, 1 Jun 2010 22:29:00 +1000 Aussie Rules football is played in its homeland in the depths of winter. But up and coming player Freddie Unu'Felix is training in 30-degree humidity in Solomon Islands. Plenty of Pacific players have come to the game in Australia.

What does Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg's profile photo say about him? Nina Jones is a 17-year-old student who is one of the finalists in Radio 4's So you Want to Be a Scientist? She is designing an experiment looking at the psychology behind the photos people chose to represent themselves on their Facebook profile.

Concluding the hugely successful South American leg of his 2010 World Tour, Roger Hodgson now heads to Europe for performances around the Continent this summer starting in Stadtallendorf, Germany June 5, and Trier, Germany June 6. Roger's tour continues in Norway, the Netherlands, Austria, Portugal,....

Madrid - There is a feeling in Spain that Jose Mourinho is the last bullet of embattled Real Madrid president Florentino Perez....

SANTA CLARA, CA -- (Marketwire) -- 06/01/10 -- Atheros Communications, Inc. : http://www.atheros.com (NASDAQ: ATHR), a global leader in innovative technologies for wireless and wired communications, today announced that Dan Rabinovitsj has been appointed vice president and general manager of its Networking Business Unit.

Oliver James, the television psychologist and author on parenting, has complained to the BBC over a clash with Jenni Murray, the Radio 4 Woman's Hour presenter, in which he claims he was "misrepresented".

Controversial Western Bulldogs star Jason Akermanis believes he can continue to combine media commitments with his AFL career despite his club's contrary view.

North Korean security officers are going house to house to ferret out defectors, the Asahi Shimbun reported from Shenyang, China on Monday quoting an informed source. The daily said officers have been harassing households after 6 p.m. since early April to check if the registered residents actually live there.

Gustavo Dudamel's remarkable first campaign with the Philharmonic was as exciting for its sheer adventurousness as for the conductor's promising future. On Oct. 3, 2009, the Los Angeles Philharmonic welcomed Gustavo Dudamel with a free, daylong concert at the Hollywood Bowl. It was a zoo.

Despite seemingly encouraging words about freedom of speech from Vladimir Putin, the Prime Minister, Russian opposition activists were again beaten and detained when they tried to hold peaceful protests across the country yesterday.

THE long-forgotten 'Cold War' between the might of NATO and the Eastern Bloc is being painstakingly recalled by an Ulster man restoring an underground monitoring station (or bunker) – one of 58 scattered under the soil of Northern Ireland. (31/05/2010)

Israeli naval ships seized control of a protest flotilla carrying humanitarian aid to the Gaza Strip on Monday, killing at least 10 people and injuring several dozen, the Israeli military said. "Israe...

Every Thursday Night Our 10 PM EDT Show On Holistic Lifestyles Radio- We Want To Thank Our Sponsor Challenges Program For Their Support of the Relapse Prevention Hour with Terry Gorski on WWNN 1470 AM Radio. Listen Live (PRWEB) -- Challenges Program is pleased to announce that every Thursday Night...

An opposition Belarusian activist recently released from prison says RFE/RL's programs in the Belarusian language are available on short wave in jails and are very popular among prison inmates.

IRVINE, Calif., May 26 -- Federal Signal Technologies company Sirit Corp. ("Sirit"), a global provider of radio frequency identification ("RFID") technology, announced today that it has been aw...

By Naomi Hunt | International Press Institute (IPI) Ethiopia's electoral board said on Tuesday that the ruling Ethiopian People's Revolutionary Democratic Front (EPRDF) and allied parties had won a Sunday election by a landslide. European Union chief election observer Thijs Berman praised the....