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This is an undated file photo shows then-al Qaida leader Osama bin Laden, in Afghanistan. After Navy SEALs killed Osama bin Laden, the White House released a photo of President Barack Obama and his cabinet inside the Situation Room, watching the daring raid unfold. Hidden from view, standing just outside the frame of that instantly iconic photograph was a career CIA analyst. In the hunt for the world's most-wanted terrorist, there may have been no one more important. His job for nearly a decade: finding bin Laden. (AP Photo) (AP)

The man who hunted Osama bin Laden

Matt Apuzzo, Adam Goldman
Meet the CIA analyst who tracked down the al-Qaida leader over the course of a decade
A protester covers himself with a Greek flag, as he runs through tear gas during clashes outside the Greek Parliament in Athens, early Wednesday, June 22, 2011. The Greek prime minister survived a crucial confidence vote early Wednesday, keeping alive a government dedicated to averting a debt default that could spark a financial maelstrom around the world. (AP Photo/Thanassis Stavrakis) (AP)

How Athens’ geography feeds unrest

Natasha Lennard
The Greek streets once again erupted over austerity. How much do the actual streets have to do with it?

Will marriage change gay love?

Tracy Clark-Flory
Many have embraced the romantic values of the mainstream -- and dropped ideas about alternative lifestyles
French Finance Minister Christine Lagarde speaks to the media outside the International Monetary Fund in Washington, Thursday, June 23, 2011, where she was interviewing to succeed former IMF Managing Director Dominique Strauss-Kahn. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin) (AP)

Lagarde chosen to lead IMF; first woman in top job

Associated Press
The French finance minister's selection became all but assured when the Obama administration endorsed her Tuesday
Fereidoun Abbasi Davani, Iran's Vice President and Head of Atomic Energy Organization, smiles during at the Ministerial Conference on Nuclear Safety at the International Atomic Energy Agency, IAEA, in Vienna, Austria, on Monday, June 20, 2011. (AP Photo/Ronald Zak) (AP)

Russia: Iran’s nuclear plant to start up in August

Associated Press
Moscow and Tehran signed a $1 billion contract to build the 1,000-megawatt Bushehr plant in 1995

Ban Ki-moon gets second term as U.N. chief

Edith M. Lederer
General Assembly unanimously votes in favor of the South Korean diplomat
Lebanese army soldier, sits atop armored personnel carrier (APC), near to portraits of Syrian President Bashar Assad, on Saturday June 18 2011, on a street in Tripoli where a clashes broke between Sunni and Alawite groups on Friday, after a demonstration of the anti-Syrian regime protesters in Tripoli, northern Lebanon. A senior member of a Lebanese political party allied with Syria and an off-duty soldier were killed Friday after gunmen opened fire and lobbed a grenade near hundreds of people holding an anti-Assad protest in northern Lebanon, a security official said in Beirut. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla) (AP)

7 killed in Syria as protests turn violent

Elizabeth A. Kennedy, Zeina Karam
Security forces opened fire and killed seven people, including a teenager, activists said

Primer: Assad’s speech

Natasha Lennard
Although less arrogant in tone than his previous two addresses, the Syrian leader's words will not satisfy critics
FILE - In this July 2, 2009 file photo, a gay rights activist in Calcutta, India, participates in a rally celebrating the groundbreaking ruling by the Delhi High Court decriminalizing homosexuality. The United Nations issued its first condemnation of discrimination against gays, lesbians and transgender people on Friday, June 17, 2011, in a cautiously worded declaration hailed by supporters as a historic moment. Members of the U.N. Human Rights Council narrowly voted in favor of the resolution put forward by South Africa, against strong opposition from African and Islamic countries. (AP Photo/Sucheta Das, File) (AP)

U.N. backs gay rights for first time ever

Frank Jordans
Human Rights Council narrowly approves resolution expressing "grave concern at acts of violence and discrimination"

Global warming is burning down the American West

Chip Ward
As wildfires ravage Arizona and Texas, it's time for us to take action on climate change before it's too late

“Daniel Stein, Interpreter”: From persecuted Jew to Carmelite monk

Donna Rifkind
A brilliant Russian novel from a bold new talent reimagines a remarkable Holocaust survival tale
Harriet Beecher Stowe

The woman who started the Civil War

Teresa Cotsirilos
Q&A: Historian David Reynolds discusses Harriet Beecher Stowe's famous novel and the controversy that won't die
FILE - This Jan. 3, 2011 file photo shows the exterior of Facebook headquarters in Palo Alto, Calif. The intense rivalry between Facebook and Google The intense rivalry between Facebook and Google just got juicier as characters behind the latest Silicon Valley drama evoked talk of smear campaigns, secret clients and even Richard Nixon. It took a once-secret blogger, known as Fake Steve Jobs, to help sort it all out. (AP Photo/Paul Sakuma) (AP)

Is Facebook’s growth slowing?

Natasha Lennard
The social network lost users in the U.S., Canada and Britain, but its dominance won't dwindle any time soon
Rick Santorum and Rush Limbaugh

The perils of ignoring science

Michael Winship
What so many on the right dismiss as "junk" may actually save us from the worst effects of climate change

How our irrational fear of terrorism is costing us

Tom Engelhardt
We waste more and more on national security. Why won't the government spend money fighting more pressing dangers?
In this photo released by the Syrian official news agency SANA and according to them, Syrian policemen carry the coffins of their comrades who were killed in recent violence in the country, during their funeral procession at the Police Hospital in Damascus, Syria on Tuesday, June 7, 2011. Residents fled the northern region of Jisr al-Shughour on Tuesday where authorities said weekend clashes between armed men and government troops killed 120 security forces, fearing retaliation from a regime known for ruthlessly crushing dissent. (AP Photo/SANA) EDITORIAL USE ONLY (AP)

U.S., allies try to report Syria to U.N.

Melissa Eddy
Resolution finds Syria in "non-compliance with its obligations" to the International Atomic Energy Agency
Men pray next to portraits of people killed or who disappeared during the rule of Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi's regime during Friday prayers in Benghazi, Libya, June 3, 2011. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd) (AP)

Gadhafi vows to fight to the death

Diaa Hadid
Defiant speech follows NATO's ferocious series of daytime airstrikes on Tripoli
Men carry cucumbers collected for destruction at a greenhouse compound outside Bucharest, Romania, Monday, June 6, 2011. Producers destroyed thousands of tons of cucumbers over the past two days, according to local media, after their production was either turned back from exports or refused for sale by supermarkets in Romania for fear of E. coli bacteria contamination. The current crisis is the deadliest known E. coli outbreak, killing at least 22 people and sickening more than 2,300 across Europe. (AP Photo/Vadim Ghirda) (AP)

E.U. farm chief proposes millions in aid for E. coli

Raf Casert
Outbreak has so far killed 24 people and infected over 2,400
In this citizen journalism image made on a mobile phone and provided by Shaam News Network, Syrian protesters hold an Arabic banner read:"May God help break the silence of the Arab League," as they march during a protest at the village of Kfar-Nebel, in the northen province of Edleb, Syria, on Friday June 3, 2011. Syrian troops pounded a central town with artillery and heavy machinegun fire Friday, killing at least two people in the latest onslaught as authorities cut off Internet service in several regions in an apparent move to prevent the uploading of videos of anti-regime demonstrations, activists said. (AP Photo/Shaam News Network) EDITORIAL USE ONLY, NO SALES, THE ASSOCIATED PRESS IS UNABLE TO INDEPENDENTLY VERIFY THE AUTHENTICITY, CONTENT, LOCATION OR DATE OF THIS HANDOUT PHOTO (AP)

Syria: Crackdowns, blackouts and an abduction

Natasha Lennard
"Gay Girl in Damascus" is abducted and further crackdowns are feared after reported killing of 120 security forces
An aerial view shows steam rising from the No. 3 reactor at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power complex on March 16

How the global energy crisis will change our lives

Michael Klare
The Arab Spring, the disaster at Fukushima and worldwide droughts all have profound consequences for the planet

Bean sprouts likely cause of E. coli outbreak

Kirsten Grieshaber, Tomislav Skaro
German authorities say they've pinpointed the source of the bacteria that has killed 22 people thus far
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

Why sanctions against Iran won’t work

Reza Marashi
It might help to understand how Iran's leaders perceive threats from America and its Western allies
Boxes containing tomatoes stand behind a fence at the closed shop of a distributor at the central fruit and vegetable market in Berlin on Tuesday, afternoon, May 31, 2011. The selling of vegetables especially tomatoes, cucumbers and salad went down after the products are suspected to cause the E. coli outbreak in Germany. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber) (AP)

WHO: E. coli outbreak caused by new strain

Maria Cheng, Nataliya Vasilyeva
So far, the mutant bacteria has sickened more than 1,500 people in Europe and killed 18
A spontaneous tribute at the entrance to slain journalist Anna Politkovskaya's Moscow apartment.

Suspected Politkovskaya killer arrested

Jim Heintz
Murdered journalist, a sharp critic of the Kremlin, was gunned down in her Moscow apartment building in 2006
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