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Documentaries are the least popular film genre. They don’t showcase special effects or superstars.
U.S.-Pacific ties take center stage in Washington this week, as Japan’s prime minister visits the White House on Friday.
Thousands of protesters gathered outside the White House, to urge President Barack Obama to aggressively combat climate change.
The president put the drawdown of U.S. forces in Afghanistan into high gear ahead of next year’s withdrawal deadline.
The horse meat scandal started in Ireland and the United Kingdom in January, but has since spread all around the EU.
The film follows Rwandan cardiologist Emmanuel Rusingiza as he struggles to save young heart patients, some with just months to live.
"You just want to give up. You turn into yourself. You close off to the outside world. It is very depressing," he explains.
The 16-year-old Maryland resident is the youngest-ever recipient of the $75,000 award, beating out more than 1,500 students from 70 countries.
Nearly a hundred strangers from all over the city have come together here with one message: "Wake up New Delhi and rise up against violence,” chant the protesters.
This is the second Oscar nomination for Watts. The first was for her role as a grieving wife and mother in 21 Grams.
The announcement by Pope Benedict XVI that he will resign on Feb. 28 shocked Catholics and non-Catholics alike.
And in its midst, an abandoned airport on the eastern end of the island - with almost 20,000 vehicles ruined by Superstorm Sandy.
