Eyes smeared with kohl, a young boy stares intently at the camera. Dozens gather for a funeral under a brooding sky. And in downtown Homs, the devastated city fighting a agonising rebellion against Syria's President Assad, an old man closes his eyes and raises his hands in desperate prayer... Read more

At the APEC Summit this past September, Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton argued that women are a great untapped economic resource... Read more