Son gives mother an unforgettable gift
VIDEO - A heartwarming video posted on You Tube just over a week ago has already garnered close to 2 million views...
Jackie Robinson's daughter honors essay winner
NBC Chicago - The seventh-grade winner of Major League Baseball’s “Breaking Barriers” essay contest was honored by Jackie Robinson’s daughter at school Monday...
Ethiopian Miss Israel to meet Obama
theGRIO REPORT - Ethiopian-born Miss Israel Yityish Aynaw received a special invitation to meet and dine with President Barack Obama and Israeli President Shimon Peres during Obama’s upcoming trip to the Middle Eastern country...
8-year-old twin girls hear for 1st time
SAND SPRINGS, OK (KFOR/NBC) - From an orphanage in Ethiopia to a small town in Oklahoma, two 8-year-old girls faced another life-altering change: They heard words for the first time....
Hopes abound as Ethiopia takes new prime minister
ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia (AP) — Ethiopia’s parliament swore in a new prime minister on Friday in the U.S. ally’s first peaceful change of
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Ethiopian leader Meles Zenawi dies
ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia (AP) - Meles Zenawi, Ethiopia's long-time ruler and a major U.S. counter-terrorism ally who is credited with economic gains but blamed for human rights abuses...
Blogger sentenced to 18 years in Ethiopia
ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia (AP) - Ethiopia's federal court has sentenced a prominent dissident blogger to 18 years in prison...
7 siblings graduate school together
VIDEO - They look like a gathering of the United Nations, but you can just call them the Seitz Senior seven...
Obama OKs emergency aid for Africa famine
WASHINGTON (AP) - President Barack Obama is announcing an additional $113 million in emergency aid to the Horn of Africa...
Why do Africans dominate marathons?
theGRIO REPORT - All in all, African runners won the top five spots and six of the top seven places. In the men's race, only one American has won since 1983, and no American woman has won since 1977...
