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Visitors examine an image at an exhibition of photos on the Lapindo mudflow disaster in Malang , East Java, on Thursday. The exhibition displays 40 works of 10 artists who once lived in areas now covered by mud. (Antara/Ari Bowo Sucipto) The Jakarta Post | Thu, 07/21/2011 3:22 PM

 Associated Press, Jayapura | Thu, 07/21/2011 6:47 PM An army officer says unidentified gunmen have ambushed Indonesia soldiers and killed one of them in the easternmost province of Papua. The chief army officer in Papua says soldiers are still searching for the gunmen. Maj. Gen. Erfi Triassunu said the ambush Thursday morning happened outside a village in the hilly district of Puncak Jaya. Triassunu said the victim was a first private killed by a shot to his head. No information was available on the other soldiers. The attack occurred one day after a military tribunal indicted three low-ranking soldiers for killing a civilian in Puncak Jaya last year. Papua is a former Dutch colony incorporated into Indonesia in 1969 after a U.N.-sponsored ballot. A small, poorly armed separatist movement has battled for independence ever since.

Picture 1: Mud hit: Villagers walk at a neighborhood hit by a landslide in Tenjolaya, Bandung, West Java, Thursday. At least 23 bodies have been pulled from the rubble, but many more are believed trapped. Picture 2: Words of prayers: Thousands of Muslims chants verses in praise of God (zikir) during a mass prayer event, which is also attended by President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono and Vice President Boediono, at National Monument Park in Jakarta on Saturday. The event was held in commemoration of the birthday of Prophet Muhammad.

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By Cathy Majtenyi Meru, Kenya 11 July 2009 Female genital cutting, or circumcision, is rampant in parts of Kenya. The procedure involves removing part or all of the external female genitalia and is typically performed on girls as a rite of passage into womanhood. Critics describe it as female genital mutilation, or FGM. In the town of Meru, Eastern province, the Catholic Church has come up with an alternative rite of passage for girls and young women. A group of grandmothers demonstrate how to serve food and which herbs to use to cure specific ailments A group of grandmothers demonstrate how to serve food and which herbs to use to cure specific ailments. They are teaching the next generation the secrets of womanhood, like their mothers and grandmothers before them. These girls and young women in the Meru area of Kenya are going through traditional training of how to be a good wife, mother and woman, but with ...

By Julie Taboh Washington, D.C. 10 July 2009 Every year in the United States, more than 200,000 children are abducted by a member of their own family - usually a parent. In many cases in which a foreign-born parent is involved, these abducted children end up far from home, usually in the native country of the abducting parent. Under U.S. law, such abductions are a federal crime. But because they involve international jurisdictions and pursuing them can be expensive, many of these cases remain unresolved. A father's missing son Scott Carlson, photographed with his former wife, says, "Our kids deserve the full force and protection of our government" Up until a few years ago, Scott Carlson was living the American dream. He had a fulfilling job, he was married to a woman he loved, and he was relishing the joys of new fatherhood. Carlson says becoming a father was a life-changing experience. "I...