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Heather Roberson's journey to Macedonia is vividly told in the comic-style novel Macedonia, co-written by Harvey Pekar. In a special Postcards, Roberson describes how, despite a peculiar state of peace, the country's young and talented seem set on searching for opportunites elsewhere.

More and more students around the San Diego County are attending school in cyberspace. These virtual schools are in demand but they're also presenting a new set of challenges. In the last of the three

These days, the frontiers of oil exploration include the waters north of Alaska. Nobody knows how much energy is hidden beneath the Arctic waves. But oil companies want to find out.

British regulators decided Wednesday to allow, at least in principle, the creation of hybrid human-animal embryos for research into degenerative diseases. The move came despite fierce opposition from some church and ethics groups.

The Israeli government ruled out a large-scale military response to ongoing Palestinian rocket fire, but is considering cutting water and electricity to Gaza if the rocket fire continues. Residents from a southern Israeli town, a frequent target of the rockets, want their government do more.

Opponents of a defense contractor’s proposal to build a training camp in San Diego’s back country say a lobbying firm that works both for the county and the company has a conflict of interest. KPBS

President Bush arrives in Australia for the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation summit. Mr. Bush also will spend time with one of his staunchest war allies, Australian Prime Minister John Howard. Howard faces a tough election challenge from an opponent who wants to pull Australia's troops out of Iraq.

Police in riot gear sprayed smoke and tear gas to break up a hostile crowd throwing bottles and cans during a massive Labor Day brawl at Pacific Beach.

Nations and corporations are jostling for a share of the Arctic — a seemingly barren region that everybody wants to own. The climate is changing, and so is the business climate, which you can see when visiting a remote spot north of the Arctic Circle, Bathhurst Inlet.

The president lands at an air base in Anbar province, 120 miles west of Baghdad, while en route to an economic summit in Australia. He used the war zone as a backdrop to argue that his January decision to raise U.S. troop levels has helped stabilize Iraq.