Dalai Lama off to 3-nation tour

Tibetan leader-in-exile, the Dalai Lama has left on a month-long tour of U.S., Canada and U.K. Hundreds of Tibetans waited outside the Dalai Lama’s residence in Dharamsala to wish him luck before his departure on Sunday.

2-week bike trek supports freedom

Tibetan monks, youths and supporters gathered Saturday in front of the Chinese embassy in Washington, D.C., to protest China’s 45-year occupation of Tibet. The demonstrators listened to speeches, chanted slogans and sang nationalistic songs calling for Tibetan independence.