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By Scott Foster, NBC News White House producer
MEXICO CITY –  On his second international trip in two weeks, President Barack Obama is visiting the largest metropolitan area in the western hemisphere: Mexico City.
It’s a bustling, crowded urban center of over 20 million people known for YouTube worthy traffic jams, spontaneous street protests and high [...]

By Ian Williams, NBC News correspondent
 SUMATRA, Indonesia – Waikiki was known as a problem child, but that was hardly surprising.
He spent the first few years of his life chained to a fence at the housing project where he got his name; it was also where he lost any fear of the humans who had [...]

While China has been weathering the global economic crisis better than many other countries so far, the financial downturn is hitting some hard. NBC News’ Adrienne Mong reports on a unique group of workers known as scrap peddlers, who are barely eking out a living in the wake of the worldwide recession.

VIDEO: Chinese scrap peddlers no [...]

KABUL For centuries, the women of Afghanistan have had to walk behind men, their faces hidden, their dreams denied. They have often been forced to live a harsh life in a place where most women are illiterate, forced into marriages, and beaten by their husbands.
In a rare protest, nearly 300 women gathered Wednesday to [...]