http://en.tpinews.com news agency, US news, feature stories, documentary, in-depth stories Mon, 28 Jul 2008 20:18:27 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Alors que la France réfléchit à légaliser la maternité pour autrui, une mère porteuse américaine témoigne de son expérience aux côtés du père des enfants qu’elle a mis au monde. Après une première fausse couche, Michelle Thomas (photo Daniella Zalcman) a donné des naissance à des jumeaux. Michael D., le père des ... http://en.tpinews.com/2008/07/28/moi-michelle-37-ans-et-mere-porteuse.html Charles Chatman (photo Justin Goode) spent 27 years behind bars in Texas after being wrongly convicted of rape in 1981. The 47-year old African-American was exonerated on January 3 2008 and is now an advocate for exonerees. The Dallas County is currently looking at 400 closed cases, where inmates had requested post-conviction ... http://en.tpinews.com/2008/04/24/27-years-in-prison-for-a-crime-he-did-not-commit.html To view the set of pictures taken by Jean-Cosme Delaloye on April 19 2008 during Barack Obama's rally in Lancaster, PA, please click on the picture or on this link. http://en.tpinews.com/2008/04/21/barack-obama-campaigning-in-lancaster-pa.html To view the pictures taken by Jean-Cosme Delaloye during the pope's trip to New York in April 2008, please click on the picture or on this link. http://en.tpinews.com/2008/04/21/benedict-xvi-in-new-york.html Cidade de Deus (City of God), the neighborhood in the Western zone of Rio de Janeiro, which portrayed in the 2002 film City of God, is infamous for its high levels of crime. But as the Brazilian president Lula just launched a program to revive Rio’s slums, people of Cidade de ... http://en.tpinews.com/2008/04/15/hope-hip-hop-and-grenades-in-the-city-of-god.html Viva Favela, a website launched 7 years ago, offers weekly a view on the life in the slums in Rio de Janeiro. In March, Brazilian president Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva launched a new infrastructure project to improve the living conditions in the slums of Rio de Janeiro. There are 752 slums ... http://en.tpinews.com/2008/04/09/a-group-of-journalists-tries-to-change-the-image-of-rio-slums.html In March 2008, Jean-Cosme Delaloye did in a feature story in the Cidade de Deus (City of God) of Rio de Janeiro. In this neighborhood marred by violence and infested by guns, people like the rappers Don and Mingau work hard to turn things around. To view Jean-Cosme's set, please ... http://en.tpinews.com/2008/04/09/cidade-de-deus-city-of-god-in-pictures.html In March 2008, Jean-Cosme Delaloye did a feature story in the slums of Rio de Janeiro and met with journalists Viva Favela, a website which aims to convey a different image of the slums. To view Jean-Cosme's pictures, click on the picture or on this link. http://en.tpinews.com/2008/04/09/viva-favela-set.html On April 4 1968, Martin Luther King Jr was murdered in a motel in Memphis. 40 years later, Clarence B. Jones (photo Daniella Zalcman) who was one of his closest advisors, publishes What Would Martin say?, a book in which he uses King's life and speeches to suggest where the ... http://en.tpinews.com/2008/04/03/barack-obama-is-not-the-new-martin-luther-king.html INTERVIEW. Moby (photo Deirdre O Callaghan) released Last night, his seventh album, on April 1 2008. The songwriter met with the.point.is. news agency at his apartment in New York’s Nolita neighborhood. He wonders if Ossama bin Laden ever bought one of his CDs. Would you describe this album as a classic Moby album? Yes. ... http://en.tpinews.com/2008/03/27/eclectic-moby.html