As 2009 turns to 2010, which inventions, events and stories of the past decade changed the world, and which will shape our lives for decades to come?
After spending 35 years in jail for a crime he did not commit, Florida inmate James Bain has become the longest-serving prisoner to be exonerated using DNA evidence.
After two weeks of tough negotiations, heated protests and frantic deal-making, the United Nations climate change summit in Copenhagen ended with a final accord that President Obama called a "modest step" towards slowing the rate of global warming.
Like millions of villages in the developing world, food in North India's rural communities is cooked with wood or cow dung - emitting black carbon or soot that can cause not only lung disease, but global warming according to climatologist V. Ramanathan.
The ideas of British economist John Maynard Keynes, born 1883, have come back into vogue thanks to the financial crisis and the stimulus spending based on his theories.
The Supreme Court protected the Washington Redskins' trademark team name against a lawsuit from a group of Native Americans who say the name is racially offensive.
In one of the planet's coldest places, high in the Himalayas, the glaciers are melting.
As world leaders attempt to hammer out a deal about permanent reductions in green house gasses, far away in China, workers toil to process "rare earth" minerals that are necessary for many of the new carbon cutting technologies.
Marketed as a groundbreaking event in its racial and gender politics, Disney's animated feature film "The Princess and the Frog" opened in first place at the box office, although it failed to meet industry expectations for such a high-profile movie.
Although Germany has the third largest contingent of forces in Afghanistan, passionate anti-war sentiment persists for Germans who are still haunted by the horrors of World War II.
With the nation's unemployment rising to its highest level in more than 25 years, NewsHour economics correspondent Paul Solman looks at how older workers are struggling to secure a job and prepare for their retirement.
Representatives from nearly 200 countries are in Copenhagen, Denmark, for the Global Climate Conference to try to come up with a green house gas compromise between developed countries such as the United States and developing countries such as China to slow the rate of global warming.
In this video report from Sioux Center, Iowa, NewsHour correspondent Ray Suarez looks at how the recession has hit agricultural centers and the farmers that produce the food that feeds the country and the world.
"I will make sure that I continue with new strength to fight for the rights of children in the camps and in the world, especially through radio programming."
The Senate will vote on an amendment attached to the health care reform bill that would restrict an individual's access to abortion and is expected to further complicate efforts to pass the legislation.
