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Millions of people have fled Ukraine since the war started, but not all are Ukrainian. And some citizens of African countries have found that the doors of Europe are much less open to them.

The case of a yacht detained in the South Pacific island nation is raising questions about how far U.S. jurisdiction extends.

Kentucky Derby winner Barbaro is making progress from surgery on his broken leg, even showing an interest in mares, but the colt still faces a long and perilous road to recovery, his surgeon says.

Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador threatened to skip this year's summit in the United States if Cuba, Venezuela and Nicaragua are excluded.

President Biden is traveling to Japan and South Korea this week — his first trip to Asia since taking office. Like presidents before him, he's seeking to reorient U.S. foreign policy toward Asia.

Barry Bonds ties Babe Ruth for second place on the career home run list with number 714. He homered into the first deck of elevated stands in right-center leading off the second inning against the Oakland Athletics.

Alex Chadwick talks with Susan Shepherd and Marcia Hams, the first same-sex couple in Massachusetts to file an intent to marry. They did so one year ago, after the state's Supreme Court legalized gay marriage.

A 2003 State Department memo clearly indicated Valerie Plame's identity was to be kept secret, according to a Washington Post story. Plame, wife of Ambassador Joseph Wilson, is the CIA officer whose identity was made public in a leak to the press.

Commentator Ed Cullen, owner of a pickup truck with a manual shifting lever on the steering column, laments and celebrates that he drives an anachronism.

In a bid to stop the sale of bootleg DVDs, Los Angeles police, backed by the film industry, have placed surveillance cameras in Santee Alley, a block of L.A.'s Fashion District that a movie honcho calls "one of the biggest pirate havens on the West Coast." The ACLU objects.

As British authorities hunt suspects in two attacks on the London transit system, they are distracted by a fiasco. Saturday, authories said a man shot dead by plainclothes police officers at a subway station Friday was a 27-year-old Brazilian not connected to the bombings. Brazil's goverment wants an explanation.

The U.S. Navy is flying unmanned robotic vehicles to Russia's Pacific Coast, in an effort to rescue the crew of a Russian mini-sub snagged in fishing net along the ocean bottom. About 30 Navy crewmembers from San Diego will use two remotely operated vehicles in an attempt to free the sub and its seven-member crew.

Some U.S. congregations have grown so large that they could pass for small cities. But some mega-churches are trying to reverse the trend by creating smaller satellite campuses, aided by video technology.

In the 1800s, American frontier towns and agricultural communities far from churches saw the rise of summer revival camps. Traveling preachers would bring evangelism to the countryside. The tradition is still going strong at a bible camp in Georgia dating back to 1828.

The rise in the Hispanic population in the United States has meant an increase in Hispanic media outlets: radio stations, newspapers, and television. The boom has implications for the country's diverse Hispanic communities and for advertisers.

Michele Norris talks with Professor Jack Pitney about the campaign promises made by Los Angeles mayor-elect Antonio Villaraigosa, and the challenges he will face trying to fulfill them when he takes office. Pitney is a professor of government at Claremont-McKenna College in California and is the author of The Art of Political Warfare.

In the Miami Cuban community, news of the arrest of Cuban exile Luis Posada Cariles has many people upset. Fidel Castro has asked the U.S. to extradite the Cuban exile, and former CIA operative, for his alleged role in a deadly airplane bombing. It's not clear why or where the U.S. is holding him.

The word filibuster goes back to a Dutch word for "freebooter," someone who took booty or loot. It came to mean a legislator who was "pirating" parliamentary proceedings.

Time is running out to save the endangered northern right whale. But researchers continue to comb the seas in search of the elusive mammal, hoping to find a way to prevent its extinction.

Hundreds of thousands of pilgrims who flooded into the Italian capital to watch the funeral of Pope John Paul II were unable to squeeze into St. Peter's Square. Many went to ancient Rome's Circus Maximus instead, watching the ceremony on giant TV screens.

Last winter, a scientist at Los Alamos National Laboratory began a Web log, or blog, for employees to post concerns and complaints about fixing problems at the government nuclear facility. But now, some members of Congress who've seen the blog see it as a reason to shut Los Alamos down.

This week Newsweek Magazine retracted a report saying a copy of the Quran had been flushed down a toilet during a prisoner interrogation at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. The protests that followed the report were a sign of the power of the communications revolution that has taken place in the Islamic world.

As U.S. officials announce they've held secret talks with North Korean officials, the world continues to work toward defusing the North Korean nuclear threat. But China shows few signs of stepping up economic sanctions on Pyongyang, fearing sanctions could send a wave of refugees across its border.

The Central America Free Trade Agreement is as controversial in other countries as it has in the United States. For Honduras and other relatively poor countries, the consequences of free trade with the world's largest economy could be enormous.

Frankie Andreu, a nine-time Tour de France participant, is providing commentary on this year's race for the Outdoor Life Network. He looks on as Lance Armstrong sails toward his seventh consecutive Tour victory.