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It takes a lot of people to stage a political convention, and they've all been in Tampa, Fla., getting ready: the technical crews, the media, the volunteers and of course the politicians.

Israel has allowed relatively few Palestinians to visit in recent years. But for the holy month of Ramadan and the holiday that followed, Israel loosened security restrictions and allowed 1.2 million Palestinians to enter.

An elephant at the National Zoo has a particular fondness for playing the harmonica. But that raises some questions: From an evolutionary perspective, what is music and why do we have it?

Only four of the top 100 ranked tennis players in the U.S. are African-American. But groups like the Washington Tennis and Education Foundation are working to level the court, and create opportunities for kids who wouldn't otherwise have the chance to play.

The High Fives Foundation is dedicated to helping injured athletes get back on their boards, skis and wheels.

Sunday afternoon inside the Tampa Bay Times Forum, guitarist G.E. Smith and his band ripped through the Cheap Trick classic. What better metaphor could there be for a presidential nominee seeking to woo voters?

Sixteen members of an Ohio Amish sect are set to go on trial in federal court Monday, in Cleveland. The defendants are accused of violating U.S. hate crime laws by cutting the hair and beards of detractors. One of the accused says the police are interfering with the private affairs of his church.

John Walker Lindh was a middle-class kid in Northern California who converted to Islam, traveled the world, and was captured by U.S. authorities in Afghanistan after Sept. 11, allegedly fighting alongside the Taliban. Now, he's suing the government over religious rights at a secret prison facility.

The revolt began in the countryside, but it is now concentrated in two main cities: Damascus and Aleppo. While poor Syrians are flooding refugee camps on the borders, the middle- and upper-class civilians can pay to cross. Despite tension, some are seeking ways to build a post-Assad future together.

A doctors group has revised its recommendation after concluding that circumcision helps protect the health of baby boys. Circumcised males are far less likely to get infected with a long list of sexually transmitted diseases, they say. But critics of the procedure are still not convinced.