Tag: World

Pope Francis, flanked by Cardinal Fernando Sebastian Aguilar, arrives at a morning session of a two-week synod on family issues at the Vatican, Tuesday, Oct. 7, 2014. Francis has urged bishops to speak their minds about contentious issues like contraception, gays, marriage and divorce at the start of the meeting aimed at making the church's teaching on family matters relevant to today's Catholics. (AP Photo/Alessandra Tarantino)

Pope and prelates get crash course in joys of sex

Nicole Winfield · October 7, 2014 6:30 pm

FILE - This Sept. 9, 2012 photo shows Bill Murray at the 2012 Toronto Film Festival in Toronto. Murray plays a war veteran curmudgeon who forms a bond with his 12-year-old neighbor in the new film, "St. Vincent." (Photo by Chris Pizzello/Invision/AP, File)

The Zen of Bill: A Q&A with Bill Murray

Jake Coyle · October 7, 2014 6:19 pm

A British Army medic attached to 22 Field Hospital participates in an exercise at the Army Medical Services Training Centre near York, northern England, Tuesday, Oct. 7, 2014. More 100 British Army medics will travel to Sierra Leone to help tackle the Ebola crisis, where they will staff a field hospital set up specifically to treat medical personnel who have caught the disease. (AP Photo/PA, Anna Gowthorpe) UNITED KINGDOM OUT, NO SALES, NO ARCHIVE

Ebola aid held up at port in Sierra Leone

Clarence RoyMacaulay · October 7, 2014 6:10 pm

In this Oct. 5, 2014 photo, a man who is identified by local media as Leung Siu Hung, a stuntman, holding a cutter, threatens to jump off the bridge to against the Occupy Central movement outside the government headquarters in Hong Kong's Admiralty. In the Hong Kong protests, not all is as it seems. In the chaos of mass street protests, murky characters come into play. (AP Photo/Kin Cheung)

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Murky players emerge from within Hong Kong protest

Louise Watt · October 7, 2014 5:36 pm

4 arrested in UK anti-terror raids, stun gun fired

Washington Examiner · October 7, 2014 5:25 pm

France-Kazakhstan kickback deals investigated

Sylvie Corbet · October 7, 2014 5:15 pm

Serbia charges 5 over transferring Syria fighters

Washington Examiner · October 7, 2014 4:54 pm

Smoke rises over the Svyato-Iversky Women's Monastery during artillery battle near to the airport in the town of Donetsk, eastern Ukraine Tuesday, Oct. 7, 2014. Despite a cease-fire declared a month ago between the Ukrainian forces and pro-Russian rebels, the biggest city in eastern Ukraine remains embroiled in fighting . (AP Photo/Dmitry Lovetsky)

East Ukraine rebels keep up drive to take airport

Peter Leonard · October 7, 2014 4:23 pm

Anti-Islamist politician killed in eastern Libya

SARAH EL DEEB · October 7, 2014 4:08 pm

The heart of Hong Kong's business district where demonstrators are blocking streets in Hong Kong, Tuesday, Oct. 7, 2014. Crowds of protesters who filled Hong Kong's streets with demands for more democracy thinned dramatically Tuesday after student leaders and the government agreed to hold talks in the increasingly frustrated city. (AP Photo/Vincent Yu)

Hong Kong protests thin as two sides agree to talk

TIM SULLIVANKELVIN CHAN · October 7, 2014 3:33 pm

Iraqi police officials: Baghdad car bomb kills 13

Qassim AbdulZahra · October 7, 2014 3:23 pm

A look at winners of 2014 Nobel Prize in physics

The Associated Press · October 7, 2014 1:53 pm