NEW YORK, Aug. 11 -- United Nations issued the following news release: United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, accompanied by Madam Ban Soon-taek, arrived in Tokyo from New York in the afternoon of Tuesday, 3 August, to be in Japan for the sixty-fifth anniversary of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. "We must do everything we can to build on the current global momentum towards a nuclear-weapon-free world," the Secretary-General told reporters after meeting with Foreign Min  more

WASHINGTON, Aug. 11 -- The Carnegie Institution for Science issued the following news release: Scientists have discovered a new window into the Earth's violent past. Geochemical evidence from volcanic rocks collected on Baffin Island in the Canadian Arctic suggests that beneath it lies a region of the Earth's mantle that has largely escaped the billions of years of melting and geological churning that has affected the rest of the planet. Researchers believe the discovery offers clues to the e  more

WASHINGTON, Aug. 11 -- Human Rights Watch issued the following news release: The Ugandan rebel Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) has abducted more than 697 adults and children in a largely unreported campaign in the Central African Republic and the neighboring Bas Uele district of northern Democratic Republic of Congo over the past 18 months, Human Rights Watch said today. Nearly one-third of those abducted have been children, many of whom are being forced to serve as soldiers or are being used fo  more

ORLANDO, Fla., Aug. 11 -- The University of Central Florida's College of Optics and Photonics issued the following news release: The IEEE Photonics Society established the Graduate Student Fellowship Program to provide Graduate Fellowships to outstanding Society student members pursuing graduate education within the Society field of interest. Students should normally be in their penultimate year of study at time of nomination. Ten Fellowships of $5000 each are awarded, based on the student me  more

WASHINGTON, Aug. 11 -- The U.S. Agency for International Development issued the following news release: Mark Deli Siljander, a former U.S. congressman from Michigan, pleaded guilty in federal court on July 7, 2010, to obstruction of justice and to acting as an unregistered foreign agent for the Islamic American Relief Agency (IARA)-a charity with ties to international terrorism, reported Howard "Ike" Hendershot, Assistant Inspector General for Investigations, U.S. Agency for International Dev  more

LOS ANGELES, Aug. 11 -- The University of California at Los Angeles issued the following news release: The sculpted, carved and incised vessels featured in "Fowler in Focus: Monochrome Ceramics from Ancient Mexico," on view at the Fowler Museum at UCLA from Sept. 12 through Jan. 23, 2011, testify to the rich ceramic history of Mexico's ancient cultures. The makers of these objects, which stand in stark contrast to the often brilliantly painted ceramics of other regions of Mesoamerica, see  more

MADISON, Wis., Aug. 10 -- The Wisconsin Department of Military Affairs issued the following news release: By Staff Sgt. Jim Greenhill National Guard Bureau Since Sept. 11, 2001 every unit in the Wisconsin National Guard has contributed forces to the global war on terror - many more than once. According to the chief of the National Guard Bureau, the National Guard likely will continue to play a significant role in overseas contingency operations for the foreseeable future. "Just   more

NORFOLK, Va., Aug. 11 -- Old Dominion University issued the following news release: Old Dominion University faculty member Nora Noffke has been selected to receive one of the top awards given annually by the Geological Society of America (GSA), Division Geobiology. The two other 2010 recipients of these Division Awards are John Grotzinger of California Technical Institute, the scientist-in-chief for NASA's Mars Rover program, and H. Richard Lane, program director in the National Science F  more

NEW YORK, Aug. 11 -- United Nations Development Programme issued the following news release: The "Public Viewing in Africa" partnership project between Sony Corporation, the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), and the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) brought 26 World Cup matches live to 24,000 people living in Cameroon and Ghana. The viewings launched an AIDS-awareness campaign aiming to bring health information to vulnerable communities in these countries, and contribut  more

IOWA CITY, Iowa, Aug. 11 -- Iowa Center for the Arts issued the following news release: Yoruba people of West Africa have the highest rate of twin pregnancies in the world and in this culture, they perceive twins -- "ibeji" -- as spirited, unpredictable, fearless, and agents of good luck. In Yoruba culture, when a twin dies, the mother commissions the carving of a six- to eight-inch wooden figure--called an ere ibeji, or twin soul -- to embody the twin's spirit for generations to come. The  more

NEW YORK, Aug. 12 -- Human Rights Watch issued the following news release: The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization should cancel the Obiang Prize at its next session in October 2010, Human Rights Watch and 95 partner groups said in a letter (http://www.hrw.org/sites/default/files/related_material/ENGJointLetter%20UNESCOExecBoard8-12_0.pdf) sent to UNESCO Executive Board members today. At its last meeting, on June 15, UNESCO agreed to delay the prize to allow fo  more

MINNEAPOLIS, Aug. 10 -- University of Minnesota issued the following news release: In 2009, when Wosen Kifle, a Minneapolis resident and native of Ethiopia, asked the University of Minnesota College of Design for assistance in designing an elementary school and clinic complex on his family's land in Furi, outside of Addis Adaba, Ethiopia, architecture graduate student Andrew Blaisdell was presented with a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity. Advised by assistant professor of architecture Ozayr   more

GENEVA, Aug. 11 --International Labour Organisation issued the following news release: Global youth unemployment has reached its highest level on record, and is expected to increase through 2010, the International Labour Organization (ILO) said in a new report issued to coincide with the launch of the UN International Youth Year on 12 August. The report ILO Global Employment Trends for Youth 2010 - [pdf 2878 KB] says that of some 620 million economically active youth aged 15 to 24 years, 8  more