Flying across the Sahara Desert of North Africa is an incredible experience if you have a window seat. For hours and hours and hours, the only thing you'll see is scorching expanses of sand. This is the hottest, harshest desert on the Earth, and [...]

It was July of 1986, and thousands of men and women from developing nations around the world boarded airplanes, many of them for the very first time in their lives. They checked into hotels to find something they'd never seen before: indoor [...]

Zaki Anwari was 17. He was good-looking and athletic and a rising star on Afghanistan's national soccer team. He spent hours practicing every day, trying to emulate his hero, Argentinean footballer, Lionel Messi. "He couldn't get enough," [...]

The man strolling through a public park in Fairfax County, Virginia, didn't look like one of the world's most dangerous spies. He was a middle-aged, middle class, a bit out of shape guy. Look more carefully and you could see he had a plastic bag in [...]

Andrew and Norine Brunson were relaxing at a Turkish retreat on the Aegean Sea when the phone rang and, "Andrew," said the voice, "the police have just been here looking for you". The call was from the small church that Andrew [...]

I don't know if you've ever wanted to visit a distant planet or to feel like you've been on one. Well, if you'd like to do that, take a vacation, Yellowstone National Park, the terrain is otherworldly, and, at times, you feel like you're on the set [...]

If you're able to visit the Karnak Temple Complex in central Egypt, you will view some of the oldest ruins in history decayed temples, chapels, and residences. On the wall of one of the temples you'll see Egyptian hieroglyphics which have been [...]

The Romanian Revolution of 1989 brought to an end the brutal reign of Nicolae Ceausescu and his wife Elena, and the entire story can be wrapped up in one word. The word is "deception". From the very beginning, Ceausescu's 24-year rule was [...]

During a 2007 interview with USA Today, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer made a shockingly inaccurate prediction. He said, "There's no chance that the iPhone is going to gain any significant market share". He told reporter David Lieberman, [...]

Sheila Walsh : We're all familiar with the term "the end of the world," but are we living in the world of the end? We're certainly living during troubling times. Some days it seems like bad news is everywhere you turn. And with such a [...]