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Ethiopia's government is backing a series of new family-planning policies, including a ban on marrying girls before they're 18. In the northern highland village of Yinsa, some women are indifferent to the change. But a younger generation finds the country's increasing educational opportunities more appealing than early marriage.

China's capital is now home to a thriving community of rock 'n' roll rebels and subversive artists. Despite censorship and other obstacles, Beijing has a livelier alternative cultural scene than in any other Chinese city.

Palestinian women are moving to the forefront of activism and even taking part in regional violence. In male-dominated Palestinian society, the increased participation marks a significant change.

Thousands of people have visited the U.S. Capitol to pay their respects to former President Gerald Ford, who's lying in state in the Capitol Rotunda. The public viewing at the Capitol ends Monday.

The former director for Mideast Affairs on the National Security Council says the White House censored him while he advised them on relations with Iran.

A federal judge orders a moratorium on executions in California, saying the state's lethal injection cocktail may violate constitutional provisions against cruel and unusual punishment. Meanwhile, Florida's Gov. Jeb Bush has suspended executions in his state.

For decades, Grand Valley Farm, in the Ozarks, was home to a small, tight-knit religious group. Recently, that community was ripped apart by allegations that church leaders were involved in child sexual abuse. Members of the community recall life before the allegations.

The Supreme Court rules that a murder conviction should not have been thrown out because the victim's family wore lapel-pin pictures of the victim to the trial. The justices ruled that since they'd never set a precedent on wearing buttons to a trial, an appeals court was not free to consider them prejudicial.

Edward Zwick gained fame for creating TVs