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In its annual report, the National Urban League outlined stark disparities in employment, housing and health care between white Americans and blacks. The group is now calling on the government to allocate funds specifically to create jobs for black Americans.

The Department of Defense releases a long-awaited manual covering treatment of prisoners during interrogation. The Army Field Manual covers all the armed services, except the CIA.

In his Pulitzer Prize-winning book Guns, Germs and Steel, Jared Diamond looked back over thousands of years of human history to examine fundamental questions behind why some societies built empires while others withered. Diamond now has some new ideas for why vast economic inequalities persist.

Adam Humphries had a problem. He needed a Chinese visa to travel on vacation, but he had all the wrong forms. His confusion led to an amazing business idea. He now parks a van in front of the Chinese consulate in New York and works as a visa consultant for befuddled travelers like him.

Myanmar's president has announced reduced sentences for prisoners. But the clemency will affect few political prisoners and falls far short of the expectations of the Obama administration. The U.S. has been trying to encourage Myanmar to go forward with political changes.

Dogfish Head brewery is known for making exotic beer with ingredients like crystallized ginger or water from Antarctica, so it might not sound surprising that one of its recent creations is a brew flavored simply by grapes and flowers. But it's not the recipe that makes this beer so special; it's where that recipe was found.

Yesterday's devastating earthquake in Haiti may have come as a shock to the millions of people who are now suffering through its aftermath. But the quake was not a surprise to geologists. Though large quakes are rare in Haiti, it's in the middle of an active seismic zone.

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Desert warriors have seized control over the northern part of Mali. Officials fear that ethnic Tuaregs in the neighboring countries of Niger and Algeria might also be tempted to rebel.

Thousands of U.S. troops have cone through the Baghdad-based COIN academy to learn how to combat insurgents in Iraq. They learn techniques to fight battles that differ greatly from conventional warfare.