As part of the BBC's Amazon Day, BBC Caribbean looks at how Guyana is using technology to fight illegal logging.

The Internet is buzzing about Al Sharpton's supposed problems with the tax man. On today's bloggers' roundtable, Farai Chideya moderates a discussion about that, plus more controversy surrounding the Martin Luther King Jr. National Memorial, and Morehouse College graduating its first white valedictorian.

House Republicans turned on themselves yesterday after a third straight loss of a GOP-held House seat in special elections this year left both parties contemplating widespread Democratic gains in November.

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich., May 14 -- Former Democratic presidential candidate John Edwards gave his long-sought endorsement to Sen. Barack Obama on Wednesday night, calling on Democrats to unite behind him and turn their attention to the fall campaign.

After three losses in special Congressional races, some senior Republicans urged their party’s candidates to distance themselves from President Bush.

"There is no district that is safe for Republican candidates," according to the chairman of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, Representative Chris Van Hollen. He tells the Washington Post that "no one could have imagined the tsunami that just crashed on Republicans in Mississippi." That's where a Democrat won a Republican-held congressional seat in the northern [...]

It is possible to piece together a picture of a powerful storm but a rescue of not nearly the same magnitude.

House Republicans may be heading off a cliff in November, but give them credit for perseverance. Even after the new slogan they floated -- "The Change You Deserve" -- was discovered to be trademarked ad copy for the antidepressant drug Effexor, GOP leaders decided to go with the rollout anyway.

President Bush said yesterday that he gave up golfing in 2003 "in solidarity" with the families of soldiers who were dying in Iraq, concluding that it was "just not worth it anymore" to play the sport in a time of war.

Barack Obama wore a flag pin three days in a row — the first consecutive days he has worn the pin in the campaign — but aides called it happenstance.

The New York Times leads with a look at the panic that set in among Republicans yesterday after their candidate lost a special congressional election in Mississippi. It marked the third-straight loss for a Republican-held seat this year, and GOP leaders are scrambling to figure out how they can prevent getting trounced in November. "The political atmosphere facing House Republicans this November i

The potential repeal of a century-old Florida law barring state funding for religiously affiliated organizations is to be put before the voters there this fall, at the end of a lobbying battle that has attracted the attention of President Bush and has engaged a coalition of liberal or secular...

Against a backdrop of drought, soaring food prices and large numbers of people being driven out of their homes by armed conflict, the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) has provided food to 44,000 displaced children in war-ravaged Somalia.

The Darfur conflict could lapse soon into another major cycle of violence and large-scale human displacement unless the parties retreat from their recent state of confrontation, the top United Nations peacekeeping official told the Security Council today.

Parliament sought to assist the Government unravel the mystery behind outlawed armed groups such as the outlawed Mungiki sect.

May 16, 2008--Why pandering won't win over the skeptics.

May 16, 2008--Why Grand Theft Auto IV falls short of its promise.

May 15, 2008--It took a white man to finally put the issue of poverty back on the agenda.

May 15, 2008--How an infectious new Obama video Jes Grew.

May 15, 2008--King was never happy with America, so why are the feds forcing him to smile now?

May 15, 2008--Something sweet from the eco-soul kitchen.

May 14, 2008--Hillary Clinton's 'white Americans' strategy is too cynical and too late.

How aging-out of the foster care system led me to build my own family.

May 13, 2008--If time is money, I can't afford to make another "friend." 

May 13, 2008--Why America's interests are tied to a court battle in Turkey.

May 12, 2008--A conversation with CBS' Mark McEwen on life after a stroke, battling the bulge and his second act.

May 12, 2008--Still taking the black vote for granted after all these years.

May 9, 2008--Finally, a fashion mag that appreciates the black female form.

May 9, 2008--A Mother's Day video exchange between India.Arie and her mom, Simpson, on tradition, independence and fabulousness.

May 9, 2008--VIDEO: Author/film producer Tonya Lewis Lee, and her sister, sociologist Tracey Lewis-Elligan chat about motherhood, battling the career clock and biological clock, and raising girls versus raising boys.

May 9, 2008--How to preserve her stories in the age of the iPod.

May 9, 2008--Why jazz is hotter than it's been in decades.

May 8, 2008--How food riots in Haiti crashed my sister's wedding.