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Indians protest government corruption Several hundred people gathered in the Azad Maidan sports ground in South Mumbair Sunday, marking the 63rd anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi's assassination by peacefully protesting the corruption plaguing the nation.-- By Pushkal Shivam
Egyptian Rutgers student has high hopes People around the world have been watching in horror as hundreds of protesters clashed with Egyptian police in an uprising that began Jan. 25. -- By Gokce Yurekli
Peace is education, author says Author Greg Mortenson argues that the way to peace is through better education.-- By Mariah Pulver
Shooting in Tucson Saturday's shooting of a congresswoman will go down in history.-- By Mariah Pulver
King Tut, in New York and Egypt As an exhibit of the relics from King Tut's famous tomb comes to a close in New York City, Egyptians remain mostly nonplussed about their famous former ruler. -- By Jessica Elsayed, Mary Majerus-Collins, Luke Pearson, Kiernan Majerus-Collins and Alma Macbride
New Year's bombing brings terror, sorrow to Egypt As people all over the world rang in the New Year to music and celebrations, my city of Alexandria rang it in to screaming and a terrible explosion. -- By Jessica Elsayed
An Oregon city finds itself a terror target The idea that someone sought to set off a bomb during the city’s recent Christmas tree lighting ceremony in Pioneer Park has unsettled the Portland community. – By Talon Bronson
Higdon displays 'magic as a composer' Jennifer Higdon, a Pulitzer Prize-winning composer from Philadelphia, had her piece Road Stories for concert band premiered by The Hartt Symphony Band Friday. -- By Kiernan Majerus-Collins
American, Indian youth share ideas in Mumbai Before American President Barack Obama set foot on Indian soil, youth of India met here with their American counterparts to discuss issues ranging from climate change and terrorism to education and jobs. -- By Pushkal Shivam
Pedaling across America, for charity Three young men pedaled their way from coast to coast to see the country and raise money for Zambian children to get bicycles to go to school.-- By Talon Bronson
Bill of Rights concert benefits refugees A recent benefit concert for Integrated Refugee and Immigrant Services, a charity that helps refugees settle in the United States, brought together people from around the world to celebrate America’s freedom.-- By Kiernan Majerus-Collins
Flawed Commonwealth Games give glimpse of India On the cusp of the Commonwealth Games in New Delhi, Indian youth viewed their nation’s prominence on the world stage with mixed feelings. -- By Pushkal Shivam
Remembering Tyler Clementi Among the nearly 200 people gathered on Sunday mornings at New Jersey's Grace Church, one teenage boy captured everyone’s ear. Tyler Clementi, a red-haired boy with round glasses and brown freckles spotting his serious but composed face, stood up front, off to the side. -- By Cresonia Hsieh
Picken's patriotic push for natural gas The recent catastrophic oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico “provided a clear reminder of the fact that our nation needs to develop safe methods for drilling and more importantly, start diversifying our nation’s energy sources,” one of the country’s most powerful congressmen said -- By Clare Hern
Tunnel where concertgoers died in Germany on Saturday. (Maya Argaman/youthjournalism.org)
Deadly panic leaves no way out at Love Parade festival Partying at the Love Parade festival Saturday in Duisburg, Germany, Maya Argaman had no idea that not far from her, others in the audience were dying when the crowd stampeded. -- By Katie Grosser
Final resting place They’re a silent testimony of lives once lived. Anything but untouched by time, yet carrying the impression of being timeless and unchanging. -- By Caroline Nelissen
Making music from Hartford to Haiti The audience rose to its feet, applauding, not knowing or caring that the man they were cheering couldn’t see them. -- By Kiernan Majerus-Collins
Americans root for the home team, a little In the United States, patriotism is a huge deal - until the World Cup comes along.-- By Mariah Pulver
Prayers for the Mandela family The death of Nelson Mandela's great granddaughter at the hands of a drunken driver on the eve of the World Cup games in South Africa had his nation again thinking of its first post-apartheid president. -- By Nicole Megan Gounder
Watching one of the last space shuttle launches From the bleachers 3.9 miles away from the launch pad, the sound of Atlantis taking off hit with the boom of a freight train. -- By Jason Soltys
Canadian women's hockey coach, star talk about winning Olympic gold The coach and a star player for the 2010 Olympic gold medalist Canadian women's hockey team talk to Youth Journalism International reporters.-- By Mehran Shamit and Jenna Potter
Louisiana teens worried about oil spill The catastrophic oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico is causing some buzz across the world, and here on the coast, some teens are worried about the dangers offshore drilling poses, both to workers and to the environment. -- By Kaley Willis
Connecticut to host first youth peace summit in 2011 The World Youth Peace Summit will gather 2,500 young people from around the globe - including writers, athletes and musicians - to Connecticut next year.-- By Yelena Samofalova Click here to read this story in Dari, Dutch, German, Italian, Russian or Turkish.
Youth Journalism International gains nonprofit status Youth Journalism International has received formal designation from the U.S. tax agency as a 501(c)(3) nonprofit, a move that should help it grow.
Showcasing Canada's diversity at York Students from different cultural organizations showed off Canada’s diversity as they gathered recently for York University’s annual Multicultural Week. -- By Mehran Shamit
Soweto Gospel Choir puts on a show for ESPN ESPN scored some soul recently when the Soweto Gospel Choir sang and danced at its campus. It may have been the greatest performance ESPN has seen. -- By Kiernan Majerus-Collins
Horror and hope in Haiti When Rayna Allonce, a high school junior in Pennsylvania, saw on television the way a powerful earthquake had crumbled buildings in her native Haiti, she “didn’t think there would be much hope” for family members living in the Caribbean nation. -- By Gokce Yurekli
Storm strands Dutch passengers A December snowstorm left Dutch travelers waiting at train stations for a chance to get home.-- By Caroline Nelissen
Dutch debate Sinterklaas' "Black Pete" While children in most Christmas-celebrating countries find presents under the Christmas tree, Dutch children look forward to gifts during their Sinterklaas celebration, delivered by Saint Nicholas' black helper, Zwarte Piet ("Black Pete"). -- By Caroline Nelissen
Recession is clobbering kids, officials told A package of stories focusing on how the recession is affecting young people in Connecticut, based on testimony before a special legislative hearing.-- By Kiernan Majerus-Collins, Francis Byrne, Mary Majerus-Collins and Yelena Samofalova
A package of stories focusing on several professors who are writing a wide range of music in Connecticut. -- By Kiernan Majerus-Collins
Invasion of the Lego people, large and small In normal life, it’s impossible to see creations involving tens of thousands of Legos, but this weekend’s Lego Kidsfest at the Connecticut Convention Center offered more than a kid can imagine. -- By Francis Byrne, Yelena Samofalova and Mary Majerus-Collins
New England Lego Users builds big scenes with small bricks Towering skyscrpers and city trains. An amusement park. Cafes and parks, even a marching band, all made out of Legos. -- By Kiernan Majerus-Collins and Clare Hern Playing the keys off the piano Fourteen-year-old Alma Macbride probably never imagined that she would someday perform with famous trumpeter and composer Wynton Marsalis at Lincoln Center. -- By Yelena Samofalova
Can you imagine feeling three times the force of gravity? Astronault Kenneth Ham can, because he’s lived it. -- By Francis Byrne
Jet plows into South African school's ballfield A passenger jet crashed shortly after takeoff in Durban, South Africa and came to rest in three pieces on a playing field that would have been busy exct for a national holiday. -- By Nicole Megan Gounder
With an eye to future, German youth head to the polls Many young Germans are voting for the first time today. -- By Katie Grosser
German students react to school massacre After a former student's deadly attack on a German high school, teens are talking about what could have prevented the massacre. -- By Katie Grosser -- By Wesley Saxena and Kiernan Majerus-Collins
As I walked into school that day, I saw tears in the eyes of worried-looking students all around me. These were boarding students from Mumbai who either weren't able to contact their family in the disaster-struck city, or worse, knew that some relative was actually at the scene. -- By Janani Ramachandran
Obama: 'We can't afford to wait' On the scene at an Obama rally
Wreck-less driving The parents of two teens killed in a high speed wreck last summer are using their own sorrowful experience to try to stop other young drivers from taking the same deadly risks. -- By Rachel Glogowski
Suicide bomber rips apart my city The rain of sadness dropped in Peshawar last week when a suicide bomber struck a busy market across town from where I live. Twenty seven people were killed in the carnage and many more seriously injured at the scene, where body parts were scattered in a business hub of Peshawar, a city in the northwest part of Pakistan, near the border with Afghanistan. -- By Edrees Kakar A newsman's struggle to survive war injuries Within days of waking from his 36-day coma, ABC anchor Bob Woodruff found himself at a loss for words – literally. Woodruff, the victim of a roadside bomb while on assignment for ABC in Iraq, said that out of all his ailments, he finds his memory loss the most frustrating. -- By Rachel Glogowski and Beth Pond Journalism suffers a blow in Indiana When high school sophomore Megan Chase wrote a column for her Indiana school newspaper calling for tolerance of homosexuals, she didn’t think it would be big deal. -- By Zach Brokenrope Blacksburg, Va. teens react to Virginia Tech killing spree Meeting the yeti on Disney's Everest coaster Since the highly anticipated opening last spring of the Expedition Everest rollercoaster, Disney’s Animal Kingdom theme park has been attracting a wider variety of visitors, and now thrill-seekers are among them. -- By Sean Soltys “Everyone should have the experience of reading his books once in a lifetime,” said Thea Condaxis, of Calais, Vermont. -- By Beth Pond -- By Beth PondRadio days: looking back on a life in Bristol -- By Rachel Glogowsk Immigrants in school, through an educator's eyes -- By Taylor Isenhour Mystery surrounds dead ducks at Bristol Eastern Lieberman fights anti-war surge in Connecticut Tucson students rally for immigrants Thousands of Arizona youth demonstrated peacefully last week against a proposed crackdown on illegal immigrants – and many walked out of their schools to take part in the protests. -- By Alkhansa el-Bedawi Bye Bye Birdie coming soon to Bristol Eastern -- By Rachel Glogowski
Getting paid for playing around Conceiving birth control clock Terryville teen pens books on high school life Surviving a killer quake in Pakistan El Salvador survives triple threat At 14, she worked in a Bristol clock factory Trying to bring tolerance to Terryville Principal's cell phone hang-ups anger students Iraq War protesters feel lucky Student-run play gets new direction
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