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Copiapo, Chile (CNN) -- Chilean President Sebastian Pinera says he is looking forward to the imminent rescue of the 33 miners trapped for more than two months nearly half a mile below ground. Officials have said rescue crews willbegin Wednesday -- and perhaps even earlier -- pulling the men to safety. "Ihope that by tomorrow [Tuesday] or Wednesday, the miners will not only be able to see sunlight, but embrace their wives and girlfriends, parents, mothers and children," Pinera told CNN en Espanol on Monday. Planning to watch the rescue? Share your reaction Pinera, who is expected at the mine site for the rescue, spoke in Quito, Ecuador. "We have been with the miners since the accident and will remain with them once they are rescued," he said. The president added the miners' reintegration into society will likely be difficult as they must build new lives and will face the added pressures that come from global media attention. Chilean Mining Minister Laurence Golbo...

China ? China's notorious one-child policy may be coming to an end. Why? The male-female ratio in China is said to be 119 males to 100 females. The other problem is the aging population will lack caregivers. With one married couple left to take care of four aging parents, the pressure is great. Jonathan Brooks, President of Bibles for China--a ministry of Voice of China and Asia, says this is old news. "The people of China seem kind of surprised that we would be asking about it because to them it was old news. What we see as a new policy in China, that you can have more than one child. People generally -- especially in Christian circles -- don't realize that this is really old news, that the policy has changed." While some news reports suggest the one-child policy has only been changed in certain provinces, Brooks is seeing change in China. He says the church is just one example. "We're seeing a great awakening in China, and what we're hearing is there i...

President Barack Obama's top economic adviser, Lawrence Summers, plans to leave the White House at the end of the year, a move that comes as the administration struggles to show an anxious public it's making progress on the economy. While administration officials Tuesday quickly sought to paint the announcement as an expected development, Summers' departure shakes up an economic team that has been under fire for its handling of the recovery. It's also a team already in transition following the recent departures of other high-profile Obama advisers. In a statement, the president said he is grateful for Summers' service during a time of "great peril for our country." "While we have much work ahead to repair the damage done by the recession, we are on a better path thanks in no small measure to Larry's wise counsel," Obama said. Summers will return to Harvard University, a move a senior administration official said was always part o...

Army Spc. Adam Winfield complained in Facebook messages to his father that he was being hounded by his platoon leader, Staff Sgt. Calvin Gibbs. Gibbs was angry when Winfield failed to lock the hatch of his armored vehicle, so the sergeant gave him extra duty. Fed up, Winfield tapped out a message to his father, Chris, on a January day, complaining that his mistakes were minor compared to what Gibbs had done. Chris Winfield says his son called Gibbs the "golden child of the platoon." "He said the golden child can do no wrong. He can commit murder ... and get away with it and everybody seems fine with it." The Army has now charged Gibbs with three murders. The charging documents allege the first murder occurred shortly before Winfield sent that message to his father. The Army says Gibbs tossed a grenade at an Afghan civilian and then ordered his soldiers to open fire, killing the man. Gibbs' lawyer, Phillip Stackhouse, says his client did nothing wrong,...

Air traffic control systems are part of the national infrastructure that may someday come under attack, experts say. Here, flights bound for Baltimore/Washington International Thurgood Marshall Airport are highlighted on a monitor. Soldiers monitor computer screens inside the U.S. Central Command's mobile headquarters, in this U.S. military photo from 2002. A major concern regarding cyber warfare is the difficulty in distinguishing military targets from civilian targets. Soldiers monitor computer screens inside the U.S. Central Command's mobile headquarters, in this U.S. military photo from 2002. A major concern regarding cyber warfare is the difficulty in distinguishing military targets from civilian targets. It may come as a surprise to some war victims, but there actually is a body of international law that establishes when and how nations can legally engage in armed conflict. Various tre...

Beijing, China (CNN) -- In the midst of tense U.S. Congressional hearings on China's currency last week, four U.S. state governors -- including California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger and Minnesota Governor Tim Pawlenty -- were in China hoping to cement business relations. More U.S. governors are looking to China for an international solution to local economic problems and unemployment, despite heightened trade and currency tensions between Beijing and Washington. "[China] represents massive economic opportunity and massive economic benefit...in a way that's going to translate in job growth for our citizens," Minnesota Governor Pawlenty said in Beijing last week. "It is absolutely amplified by the downturn in the recession and this heightened thirst to do anything and everything we can to create jobs." Even California, considered the 8th largest economy in the world, is looking across the Pacific for a long-term economic boost. "California jobs, busi...

New Delhi, India -- A freight train collided head-on Monday with a passenger train waiting at a station in central India, officials said. Twelve people were killed and wounded 30 others in the crash in the state of Madhya Pradesh, said railway spokesman Anil Saxena. Among those wounded, 10 were seriously hurt, Saxena said. Authorities could not immediately say what caused the crash. India's massive rail network used by hundreds of thousands of passengers daily has a poor safety record. Official figures show 100 train accidents occurred in the country in the 2009-10 fiscal year and 115 in 2008-09.

Demonstrators clash near Ground Zero. Mona Eltahawy I have developed an overwhelming urge to tell everyone I meet I'm a Muslim. As a Muslim woman who doesn't wear a headscarf, I'm often mistaken for a Latina and other ethnicities that my features match. But as anti-Muslim sentiment has risen across the United States, so has my urge to say, "Hey America, I'm a Muslim. Let's talk." That urge took me to the sidewalk in front of Park51, the proposed community center and mosque near Ground Zero, over Labor Day weekend. I spent four days with a small but dedicated group of sidewalk activists who for more than three weeks have stood in front of Park51 with signs reading "Peace Tolerance Love" to support its right to build.  The volunteer sidewalk activists are a mix of non-Muslims and Muslims, newly minted activists in their 20s, and veteran activists of their parents' generation. We were not there to defend or speak for any of the spiritual or fina...