Robert Bales, a Staff Sergeant in the US Army who has served four tours between Iraq and Afghanistan, has been formally charged with the murders of four men, four women, and nine children, according to a statement from and the charge sheet released by the Army. 

On March 24^th President Obama traveled to Seoul for a three-day trip. This trip’s focus was an international nuclear security summit, attended by fifty-four nations total. This summit however, has been overshadowed by North Korea’s announcement to plan a rocket-powered satellite launch in mid-April.

Tensions have mounted in Mali as the country experiences a coup d’état led by junior army officers.  On March 21, these young soldiers took control of the military barracks, presidential palace, and state broadcasting.

In 2010 the average person spent fourteen minutes a day on facebook alone. When you add that all up you end up spending about a year of you life and that was just in 2012. 

The world is full of many cultures that speak many different languages. To understand them fully, we would need to learn the language, on top of our own. But there are other benefits than just understanding the foreign tongue.