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In a stark contrast to the response of Hurricane Katrina, officials in New Orleans have successfully evacuated nearly everyone in New Orleans before Hurricane Gustav strikes, although some residents of New Orleans have decided to stay put.

A new agreement called the Justice and Peace Law is beginning to disarm Colombia's notorious paramilitary groups. Members of the paramilitaries are volunteering information about their killings in exchange for a shorter jail sentence. The families of the 10,000 missing people in Colombia hope the arrangement will finally help them get information and recover their loved-ones remains.

His mother is white and from Kansas. H father is from Africa; and his wife's name is Michelle. Will Jawando, a former staffer to Sen. Barack Obama, says that deciding whether he feels more black or white was a matter decided for him by his appearance and society.

Patrick Odong was forced to kill as a rebel in the LRA. Music helped him find peace when he returned home.

Catherine Ojok runs a small cafe where customers have no idea of her past. And she wants it to stay that way.

To stay in the camps or to go home, for northern Uganda's displaced the wrong choice could mean the difference between life and death.

Washington Post architecture critic Philip Kennicott reviews the Olympic Green and the new iconic buildings that flank it, the "Bird's Nest" stadium and the "Water Cube" aquatics center. Even before the games began, the new Olympic venues were iconic parts of Beijing's landscape, each with a clear message.

Angel Cabrera, a former drug addict, patrols Tijuana in search of drug users and commercial sex workers to provide them with condoms and clean needles. Cabrera is an outreach worker for Prevencasa, a non-profit organization through UC San Diego that is researching the spread of AIDS.

Robert and Susan Levy's daughter disappeared on May 1, 2001. Her skeletal remains were found a year later. The investigation of her murder is ongoing.

Globalization helped tame the once violent city of Medellin, Colombia, but the metropolis is struggling to stay prosperous in the increasingly competitive world of global trade.

Washington Post Architecture Critic Philip Kennicott explores the forests of new buildings springing up in every corner of Beijing, from blue chip projects such as the CCTV tower to the workers' sheds that are probably the most common structure in the Chinese capital.

Some children with a lot of weight to lose move to rural North Carolina to attend Wellspring Academy -- a boarding school specifically designed to treat overweight and obese teens -- at a cost of $6,250 per month. The question is, does it work?

Li Shan Fu's 16-year-old daughter was pulled from the rubble only to be lost after being taken away in an ambulance. As Li continues his search, other parents' grief turns into anger.

Female entrepreneurs in Maraba built thriving coffee farms and other successful businesses as society transformed in the wake of Rwanda's genocide.

In the town of Dujiangyan, China, workers continued to search collapsed buildings for survivors and victims four days after the earthquake. Tian Rong Li has waited since Monday for the bodies of her parents to be retrieved. Others held out hope survivors still might be found, and captured on film.