Clare Richardson

In 2008, reports surfaced that detainees at Guantanamo Bay had been tortured by songs such as Metallica's "Enter Sandman" and Drowning Pool's "Bodies."

Now, a new documentary from Al Jazeera shows that detainees may also have been subjected to musical torture of a softer...

As the deadly crackdown by Bashar Assad's regime in Syria stretches into its 15th month and the death toll soars to more than 12,000 people, the United States maintains that international military action against the country is not the best course of action.

"The consideration of...

As Western Hemisphere leaders butted heads this weekend at the Summit of the Americas in Cartagena, Colombia, one country had a bittersweet reason to celebrate. For the first day in almost three years, no one was murdered in El Salvador.

That might sound like good news for a 6-million person...

A U.S. Navy jet crashed into an apartment complex in Virginia Beach, Virginia, on Friday afternoon. CNN reports that the plane -- an F/A-18D assigned to Strike Fighter Squadron (VFA) 106 -- slammed into the Mayfair Mews Apartment complex, setting several apartments on fire.

The US Navy reported...

NEW YORK -- An island paradise known foremost for its picturesque beaches and tourism industry captured international headlines last February when the unexpected resignation of its president appeared to show the country's nascent democracy slipping back toward dictatorship.

During a recent visit to New York, former President Mohamed Nasheed...

Is the viral video campaign that rocketed Joseph Kony to international fame last week just some "slick, kind of fly-by-night, slacktivist thing"?

"Not at all," according to Ben Keesey, CEO of Invisible Children, the organization responsible for the campaign. In a new, eight-and-a-half-minute clip released on Monday (above),...

On Thursday, March 8, in coincidence with International Women's Day, hundreds of influential women from over a dozen countries flocked to New York's Lincoln Center for Newsweek and The Daily Beast's third annual Women in the World conference.

The three-day event featured panels with a host of remarkable...

Just who is this Joseph Kony guy, anyway? If you learned his name from the viral video that rocketed the notorious leader of the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) to fame this week, the film producers' campaign to make Kony a household name appears to have succeeded -- but not without...

When the International Ice Hockey Federation chose Belarus to host the 2014 Hockey World Cup, it may not have expected to attract the ire of a legion of topless Ukrainian feminists.

The organization's decision to allow Belarus' capital city Minsk to host the games despite the country's poor human rights...

In the wake of Kim Jong Il's death, public and government reactions to the passing of North Korea's "Dear Leader" have ranged from condolences to stark remarks hinting at demands for change to North Korea's political and economic policy. As questions have been raised about whether...

NEW YORK -- As the death toll in Syria's bloody government crackdown rises to more than 3,500 since mass protests began last March, the international community is ratcheting up pressure to end the violence and hold President Bashar al-Assad's regime accountable.

This week, two groups released reports blasting human...

As South Korea gets in the occupying spirit, the official news agency of its neighbor to the north has jumped on the demonstrations as an opportunity to knock capitalism and express support for the South Koreans' "pent-up wrath against avaricious big banks and companies that caused economic inequality."

The former Libyan dictator's capture and death on Thursday was perhaps as ugly as his life was glamorous.

When it was revealed that Gaddafi was pulled from a sewage pipe (months after calling the Libyan people 'rats' when they rose up against him), it...

In 2010, at least 527 people in 23 countries were executed worldwide, according to a report released by Amnesty International.

The United States ranks highly on the list of countries that impose the death penalty. Although the number of executions in 2010 is down slightly from 2009 and...

Andrés García Torres was "separated" from his Catholic parish after a photo surfaced of him shirtless with his arm around another man, and now the priest is offering to go to extreme measures to prove he's not gay, according to a report from Spain's Antena 3 and

New York's World Science Festival kicked off its first full day with some of the world's greatest minds sharing their excitement with the general public over the latest advancements in science.

This evening, "The Dark Side of the Universe" asked us to consider what the invisible 96% of the universe...

On Friday I joined Brooklyn President Marty Markowitz, Councilmember Steve Levin, and friends and family of Hope Reichbach to plant a tree at Borough Hall, Brooklyn, in memory of my friend and former roommate. This Memorial Day, I remember Hope with all the vibrancy that she brought to...

In countries where women are raped and killed in staggering numbers, a walk home from school can be a matter of life and death.

Perhaps worse when women must travel home in the dark.

For AOL's Monster Help Day, I volunteered at MADRE, a...

Sarah Miller Caldicott, great-grandniece of Thomas Edison, introduces the night's program

For those tired of watching Hollywood starlets parade mindlessly past adoring fans, the chance to honor real contributions to science and technology is a welcome change of pace. The Edison Awards, a.k.a. "

If you're in search of an environmentally responsible getaway, Costa Rica is a safe bet. With more than 26% of its land protected, 99% of its electrical energy from clean sources, and no state military, this small nation may well be the