Exams. Midterms. Essays. It's crunch time at university, and students all over the country are searching for the secret to instant knowledge. This is the time of year when the major libraries at college campuses are packed wall-to-wall with students busy scribbling notes, reciting lines from their slides, or hiding...

For the first time, two Saudi Arabian women have publicly stated their interest in participating in the Olympic movement. But with less than two months before the London 2012 Summer Olympics, it's unlikely that millions of fans around the world will witness a historic moment for Saudi Arabian women. The...

Global state-funded television news channels like Al Jazeera, the BBC, China's CCTV and RT (formerly Russia Today) have proliferated in recent years -- and now they're expanding, with a host of new services that tailor the news to local interests.

Al Jazeera, for example, has hired close to 200...

Syria's 544-mile border with Turkey has long been a common path for illegal entry or exit. These days, that border has drawn a new group of illegal entrants to Syria: foreign correspondents covering a nearly year-old conflict that seems to grow bloodier by the week.

As the civil war in...