Afghan women blaze a trail
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ATHENS, Greece -- At 14.14 seconds, Robina Muqimyar posted the second-slowest time among 63 women in the 100-meter trials. But she and judo competitor Friba Razayee also have achieved historic firsts -- they
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HERAT, Afghanistan -- All evening, crowds of followers came and went through the vast, manicured gardens of ''emir sahib,&quot; Ismail Khan. The women sat in a circle, weeping and waiting for their snowy-bearded leader to emerge. The men sat in long, quiet rows under a huge arbor of grapevines.
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In the face of Taliban threats, many women fear the shame a public death would bring their families.
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MAZAR-I-SHARIF, Afghanistan  - The lilt of a girl   singing of homecoming blends pleasantly with a cacophony of   different melodies from keyboard, guitar and drums in a music   school in northern Afghanistan.
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A new traveling exhibit gives a glimpse of Afghanistan's diverse cultural legacy, rescued from the Taliban's destruction
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History is being made in Afghanistan, as the country takes part in its first-ever presidential election. But while most Afghans are enthusiastic, the candidates challenging interim President Hamid Karzai claim
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Aid worker helped women set up their own businesses in southern city of Kandahar.
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Three of the victims of a plane crash in the mountains of Afghanistan were American women who had been working to help improve the struggling nation's public health system.
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Travel: Isabel Choat embarks on a walk with a difference - following a nomad family through a part of Morocco few tourists get to see.
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KANDAHAR, Afghanistan, Sept. 25 -- A teacher for more than three decades and an advocate for women's rights, Safia Ama Jan ran an underground school for girls during Taliban rule. On Monday, two men on a motorbike gunned her down as she left for work -- identifying their target despite her full...
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War tourists visit 'Katyusha trail' to understand Israel's latest battle with Hizbullah.
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Her followers are ecstatic, but terrorists are gunning for her and crises are erupting even as she seeks to form a ruling troika with Musharraf and the military
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Qalai Zaman Khan, Afghanistan -- Masooda Jalal, the woman who would be president of Afghanistan, stands inside the mud walls of a bread bakery in this hardscrabble village on the outskirts of Kabul.
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Teressa Rerras didn't really start taking photographs until age 40, and then it was only as a way to remember her trips to exotic places around the world. Nearly a decade later, she's taking more than just vacation snapshots. She's returning to Afghanistan this month for the ninth time since 2001 to teach girls new ways of seeing their world &#151; and themselves &#151; through photography.
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KABUL, Afghanistan  -- Western pop videos, India's Bollywood movies and even Charlton Heston's &quot;The Ten Commandments&quot; have Afghanistan's fledgling cable TV stations in hot water.
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Athanasia Tsoumeleka of Greece wins the women's 20km walk.
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Despite repeated threats from Taliban insurgents, millions of Afghans, many of them women, turned out to vote on Saturday in a landmark presidential