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Coming To 'Americanah': Two Tales Of Immigrant Experience

The new book from Nigerian writer Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie is a knockout of a novel about immigration that transcends genre. It's everything from a coming-of-age novel to a romance to a comic novel of social manners to an up-to-the-minute meditation on race.

Online activist Ali Abdulemam (right) is greeted in Manama, Bahrain, on Feb. 23, 2011, shortly after anti-government protests began. Wanted by the government, he went into hiding the following month. He escaped from Bahrain after two years underground and made his first public appearance Wednesday in Oslo, Norway.

After Two Years In Hiding, A Bahraini Blogger Escapes

Ali Abdulemam was perhaps the most prominent online activist in Bahrain when he went into hiding in March 2011 to avoid arrest. He recently escaped the Gulf nation and made his first public appearance in more than two years on Wednesday.

This image provided by the Syrian Revolution against Bashar Assad and released May 2 shows soldiers loyal to Syrian President Bashar Assad standing amid dead bodies at Bayda village, in the mountains outside the coastal city of Banias, Syria.

Teaching The Rules Of War In Syria's Vicious Conflict

War crimes are increasingly defining the conflict in Syria. But a recent workshop for opposition fighters held in southern Turkey hopes to teach them international humanitarian law that helps them be "Fighters Not Killers."

A Wal-Mart store in Paramount, Calif. The company announced it would conduct its own inspections at Bangladeshi factories that produce its goods rather than joining an agreement with other Western retailers.

Wal-Mart Has Its Own Plan To Help Bangladeshi Garment Workers

The world's largest retailer has declined to join European labels in a legally binding agreement to improve safety at factories in the South Asian country.

Immigrants take the U.S. oath of citizenship during a naturalization ceremony in Irving, Texas.

Immigrants To Be Largest Driver Of U.S. Population Growth

The Census Bureau projects that for the first time in almost two centuries, immigrants will be the main source of U.S. population growth as early as 2027.

Human embryos grow in a petri dish two days after scientists in Oregon cloned them from a donor's skin cell.

How Researchers Cloned Human Embryos

After decades of trying, scientists say they've finally figured out how to make personalized embryonic stem cells. One day, these designer cells may help treat an array of diseases. A jolt of caffeine and and a little electric shock helped to do the trick.

A missing poster is left on a tree outside Amanda Berry's home in Cleveland last week.

When The Missing Return, Recovery Is Long, Too

More than 300 freed abductees are part of an online community they call the RooterHood, where they can share their stories, their fears, and get help.

Richard Swanson, who died in Oregon Tuesday, has inspired an outpouring of condolences as his story of walking to Brazil for charity has inspired those who learn about it.

Richard Swanson Didn't Reach Brazil, But He Found An Audience

Tributes are appearing online for Richard Swanson, the Seattle man whose plan to dribble a soccer ball all the way to Brazil to raise money for charity ended Tuesday after he was struck and killed by a pickup truck in Oregon.

Maryland Suburb Says 16 Is Old Enough To Vote

The first city in the country to allow 16- and 17-year-olds to vote in municipal elections is a progressive town on the edge of Washington, D.C. But the push to allow people to vote or at least register before age 18 is ongoing in numerous states.

When Garfield High School in Los Angeles stopped suspending students for "willful defiance" several years ago, it saw suspensions drop from more than 600 to just one. Tuesday, the Los Angeles Unified School District board voted to follow suit in all LA schools.

LA Schools Throw Out Suspensions For 'Willful Defiance'

Students deemed "willfully defiant" accounted for nearly half of California's 700,000 suspensions last year. Many educators are cheering the Los Angeles Unified School District's decision to ban such suspensions, arguing the category is too broad and disproportionately targeted black students.

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