Mar 17th, 2010 · The city's emergency financial manager announced the closing of more than a quarter of Detroit's 144 public schools as the district fights steadily declining enrollment and a budget deficit of more than $219 million. The closures are part of a $1 billion, five-year plan to downsize the district while improving education, test scores and safety.
Mar 17th, 2010 · China is now second only to the U.S. in the number of billionaires, and nowhere is the country's entrepreneurial zeal more apparent than in the southern city of Wenzhou. The past year has been hard on China's entrepreneurs, but they are still wheeling and dealing in Wenzhou.
Mar 17th, 2010 · U.S. military officials are preparing to attempt to take control of Kandahar away from the Taliban later this year. Two young Western residents of the city, Felix Kuehn and Alex Strick van Linschoten, describe what it's like to live and work under Taliban rule.
Mar 16th, 2010 · Colorado Springs removed all trash cans from public parks to save money. Now an animal rights group has offered to help. PETA's proposal has strings — new trash cans feature a woman in a lettuce bikini and an anti-meat slogan. The city's mayor says he'll consider the offer, if the group also has the trash picked up and hauled to the dump.
Mar 15th, 2010 · Authorities suspect members of a gang of hit men allied with the Juarez drug cartel separately ambushed two cars carrying families with ties to the U.S. consulate in this violent border city, killing an American couple and a Mexican man.
Mar 14th, 2010 · A U.S. couple shot to death within sight of the border with their baby in their vehicle's back seat was among those killed in drug-plagued Ciudad Juarez, officials said Sunday. President Obama expressed outrage over the killings, and Mexican President Felipe Calderon promised a swift investigation.
Mar 14th, 2010 · In the throes of a vicious drug war, Mexico's border city of Juarez — with its endless wave of kidnappings and executions — has become one of the most violent places on earth. The city is shouldering unfathomable sorrow, and its mothers are the most public face of that suffering.
Mar 14th, 2010 · Deadly bomb attacks in the southern Afghan city of Kandahar were a warning to NATO's top general that the Taliban are ready for a coming offensive in their heartland, the insurgents said Sunday.