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Ben Hardwick was horrified when he learned that a worker at a Kenyan orphanage supported by his nonprofit was attacked with a machete.

So he posted a photo of the worker's scarred face and a message on the social networking site reddit.com with a fundraising plea for a security fence.

Rogelio Servin entered deportation proceedings in San Francisco earlier this month and came home a legal resident, thanks to a little-used wrinkle in immigration law.

At a branch of one of the largest Somali-owned money wire businesses in Minneapolis, customers stood outside the teller window last week with wads of cash in their hands and weary looks on their faces.

"I wanted to send this money to my wife," said Hashi Yusuf, whose spouse and children live in Somalia. "When I ask this guy to send it, he said to me, 'No more we send the money.'"

Parents who adopt children from overseas may have the best intentions, but some are confronting race issues they aren't prepared for.

Parents tote their children to ethnic restaurants and cultural festivals, but are often oblivious to the biases and racism their children sometimes face.

RALEIGH, N.C. - When Abdurrahim el-Keib was a graduate student at North Carolina State University, like many a future political figure he kept late hours, toiling night after night to put his lofty thoughts into inspiring words that might incite future generations to action.

KARACHI, Pakistan - Bilquis Edhi has thousands of children.

Some were born with shriveled limbs. Some have misshapen heads. Some will never see, nor speak, nor walk.

Bilquis Edhi loves them all.

SALT LAKE CITY - When a 13-year-old girl was raped by her schoolteacher in Zambia in 2006, a developing country in southern Africa, she had few options.

Even if she went to a police station or hospital to have a DNA sample from her attacker collected, the chance of any evidence resulting in a prosecution was slim.

CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas - A Corpus Christi man implicated in an international terrorist plot likely was in it only for the money, friends and former business associates said Tuesday.

Mansour Arbabsiar, 56, was arrested in September and implicated in a federal criminal complaint made public Tuesday in a plot to kill the Saudi ambassador to the U.S.

WASHINGTON - Major trade agreements with South Korea, Colombia and Panama appear harder to enact than they were to negotiate, even though many corporate executives and economists insist they provide just what the U.S. economy needs: jobs.

Nimbus Water Systems has been purifying water since 1968, but with its latest product lines the company is moving beyond kitchens and cafes to provide safe drinking water for residents of disaster-stricken Haiti.