A former Mississippi sheriff’s deputy was arrested Wednesday in the 1964 slayings of two black teenagers who were long believed to have been kidnapped and killed by the Ku Klux Klan.
The former deputy, James Ford Seale, of Roxie, Miss., was named in a federal indictment charging him in connection with the teens’ disappearance and deaths [...]

Radon gas is the second leading cause of lung cancer in the United States.
But while most Americans know tobacco smoke is the primary trigger for lung cancer, very few are aware of the risks posed by radon — or that dangerous levels of the gas can be found in many homes.
“Radon is an invisible, odorless, [...]

This seventeen-year-old lost both hands to rebels’ machetes. Waterloo camp, Sierra Leone, 1998. UNICEF / HQ96-0566 / Giacomo Pirozzi
On 1 December 2000, the United Nations General Assembly adopted, unanimously, a resolution on the role of diamonds in fuelling conflict, breaking the link between the illicit transaction of rough diamonds and armed conflict, as a contribution [...]

“Pay It Forward” is a book written by Catherine Ryan Hyde, but it’s also an idea. It’s an action plan within a work of fiction. But does it have to be fiction? We’re hoping not. In fact, since the book was released in January of 2000, a real-life social movement has emerged, not just in [...]

There are no kit bags or towels at the edges of a makeshift beachside pitch, just a couple of prostheses and a large plastic bottle of drinking water, but Sierra Leone’s national amputees football team is in play.
A group of single-legged young men, all victims of the west African nation’s brutal civil war in which [...]