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With a death toll expected to climb into the tens of thousands, more than a half-million people displaced and a nuclear crisis continuing to unfold, rescuers converged Monday on Japan's devastated earthquake zone while workers in relatively unaffected areas struggled to return to offices and factories.
Love, hate, anger and laughter — those are just four words in the English language that would have no meaning without lexicographers.
Harvard University economics professor Ed Glaeser will speak this morning at The University of Memphis Holiday Inn. Glaeser is the keynote speaker at local nonprofit Leadership Memphis' annual community leadership luncheon, from 11:45 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. today.
Proposed legislation in the Tennessee legislature would outlaw practicing portions of the Islamic religion, called Sharia law.
At the funeral were 17-year-old Marcus Matthews, a baby girl and a young mother. The mother was dead, the baby was four months old, and Matthews, the child's alleged father, was confused.
Whether they're sneakers, sandals or stilettos, one University of Memphis student organization wants women to wear the shoes that empower them in honor of Women's History Month.
When Memphis City Schools board member and part-time University of Memphis student Stephanie Gatewood first considered the idea of surrendering the MCS charter and unifying the school district with Shelby County's, she was hesitant to vote "yes" — until she began digging for details.
The University of Memphis lacrosse team, which opened its 2011 campaign this month, is currently facing an uphill battle for resources and funding from The University.
Three hundred people are missing and 75 bodies have been recovered from the quake ravaged New Zealand city of Christchurch, local authorities said Wednesday.
Libyan dictator Moammar Gadhafi was clinging to power Monday as his troops and mercenaries gunned down civilians and anti-government protesters in the Libyan capital of Tripoli, prompting international condemnation, and defections and cries of genocide from some members of his own government and military.
Security forces in tiny but strategic Bahrain launched a brutal assault early Thursday against about 10,000 defiant anti-government protesters, including women and children, camped out in tents in the capital's Pearl Square.
President Obama awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom on Tuesday to former President George H.W. Bush and 14 others, including poet Maya Angelou, cellist Yo-Yo Ma, investor Warren Buffett and basketball legend Bill Russell.
To track the growing political movements gaining strength from the uprisings in Egypt and Tunisia across North Africa and the Middle East, one would be well advised to get a planner.
Uprisings have been in the news of late, and here was another one. This year's Grammy Awards ceremony, telecast from Staples Center Sunday night, was a generational takeover and an airing of the widening gap between the traditional corporate music industry and the dynamic, diverse culture that's redefining the very nature of popular music right now.
The Egyptian army has tightened its grip over the country by suspending the constitution, dissolving parliament, and calling for elections within six months, key demands of the protest movement that ousted President Hosni Mubarak.
An inspirational speaker, author and founder of the national Quality Foods for Everyone Program, Chet Sisk is coming to The University of Memphis to raise "food consciousness" in Tennessee.
Republicans on the House of Representatives energy committee on Wednesday aired their proposal to block the Environmental Protection Agency from reducing greenhouse gases and to reverse the agency's scientific finding that climate change is dangerous.
While Wednesday's and Thursday's campus closings got students out of class, they caused students and faculty members to cancel or reschedule dozens of campus events.