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Zardari in Washington: Hard Questions for Pakistan’s Leader

Pakistan’s President, Asif Ali Zardari, arrives at the White House on Wednesday as one of his country’s walking wounded. Amid rising violence and turmoil, his popularity among his own people has hit rock bottom; political allies and rivals alike smell blood in the water; the country’s military barely pretends to follow his instructions; the Taliban controls large swaths of his country’s territory; and militant groups want his head — literally. So, can Pakistan’s President expect some TLC in Washington

Street kids in Afghanistan: A CNN reporter revisits child beggars

As a journalist, as a human being, the stories of the people around you stick with you. Whether it is in passing memory or in daily wonderment, they are in your mind and many in your heart, engrained forever

‘High school dropout crisis’ continues in U.S., study says

Nearly 6.2 million students in the United States between the ages of 16 and 24 in 2007 dropped out of high school, fueling what a report released Tuesday called "a persistent high school dropout crisis." The total represents 16 percent of all people in the United States in that age range in 2007. Most of the dropouts were Latino or black, according to a report by the Center for Labor Market Studies at Northeastern University in Boston, Massachusetts, and the Alternative Schools Network in Chicago, Illinois. “Because of the widespread, pressing nature of the crisis and the large numbers of young people who have already dropped out, a national re-enrollment strategy should be a fundamental part of America’s national education agenda,” the report says.

Texas police shake down drivers, lawsuit claims

Roderick Daniels was traveling through East Texas in October 2007 when, he says, he was the victim of a highway robbery. The Tennessee man says he was ordered to pull his car over and surrender his jewelry and $8,500 in cash that he had with him to buy a new car. But Daniels couldn’t go to the police to report the incident

Florida man kills wife, 2 kids, himself, officials say

A man shot and killed his wife and two of their children and then killed himself in central Florida on Sunday night, authorities said.

Painting prostitutes, Pakistani brushes off religious hard-liners

It’s hot and sweaty in a rat-infested room in Lahore’s historic red light district, a neighborhood of narrow alleyways lined with brothels. A barefoot, long-haired woman is gyrating and twirling on the carpet, to the beat of a four-man band whose drummer sweats profusely as he pounds out a furious rhythm. The dancer, who only gives her first name, Beenish, is performing a kind of Pakistani belly-dance called the mujra

Former Republican VP candidate, congressman Kemp dies

Former congressman and Republican vice presidential candidate Jack Kemp died Saturday at age 73 after a battle with cancer, his family announced. A onetime professional football player, Kemp served nine terms in Congress as a representative from New York and was former Sen. Bob Dole’s running mate in 1996

Murder Mystery: Who’s Killing Hungary’s Gypsies?

Jeno Koka’s killers shot him in the chest moments after he had bid good night to his wife Eva and stepped from his house on his way to a shift at the nearby pharmaceutical factory where he worked. The 54-year-old grandfather bled to death only a few paces from his doorstep. Although Koka’s wife said she never heard the shot that felled her husband, hundreds of thousands of others across Hungary did

Driver dies after attempted attack on Dutch royal family

The man suspected of trying to attack the Dutch royal family by crashing his car near their bus has died, Dutch police said Friday. The man, whose name was not released, had been seriously injured in the crash Thursday in the town of Apeldoorn, about 45 miles east of Amsterdam, police said

Obama: Candidate vs. President

More than two years ago, a junior senator with presidential aspirations stood on the steps of Illinois’ Old State Capitol in Springfield and warned of politicians who fail to live up to expectations. (CNN) — More than two years ago, a junior senator with presidential aspirations stood on the steps of Illinois’ Old State Capitol in Springfield and warned of politicians who fail to live up to expectations. “Too many times, after the election is over, and the confetti is swept away, all those promises fade from memory, and the lobbyists and the special interests move in, and people turn away, disappointed as before, left to struggle on their own,” then-Sen