Tag: World

FILE - In this March 18, 2014 photo, a young Malaysian boy prays, at an event for the missing Malaysia Airline Flight 370, at a shopping mall, in Petaling Jaya, on the outskirts of Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. After a four-month hiatus, the hunt for Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 is about to resume in a desolate stretch of the Indian Ocean, with searchers lowering new equipment deep beneath the waves in a bid to finally solve one of the world's most perplexing aviation mysteries. (AP Photo/Joshua Paul, File)

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With huge search area mapped, MH370 hunt resuming

Kristen Gelineau · October 4, 2014 3:22 pm

Thousands of Muslim pilgrims make their way to throw stones at a pillar, symbolizing the stoning of Satan in a ritual called "Jamarat," the last rite of the annual hajj, in the Mina neighborhood of Mecca, Saturday, Oct. 4, 2014. The 10th day of the Islamic lunar month of Dhul-Hijja, during the hajj, is the beginning of Eid al-Adha, the most important Islamic holiday, to mark the willingness of the prophet Ibrahim, or Abraham to Christians and Jews, to sacrifice his son. (AP Photo/Khalid Mohammed)

Muslims celebrate Eid as hajj pilgrimage nears end

MOKHTAR SHEHATAAYA BATRAWY · October 4, 2014 3:17 pm

In this photo provided by the Lancet, the world's first baby born to a woman with a transplanted womb, is shown after his birth in Goteborg, Sweden. For the world's first baby born to a woman with a transplanted womb, only a victorious name would do. His mother says that is why his parents named him "Vincent," meaning "to conquer." In an interview with The Associated Press on Saturday, Oct. 4, 2014, the 36-year-old Swedish mother said she learned she had no womb when she was 15 and was devastated. (AP Photo/The Lancet)

Mother with womb transplant says risk paid off

Maria Cheng · October 4, 2014 3:05 pm

Nobel Prize in literature: Oh really? Or finally?

Malin Rising · October 4, 2014 2:57 pm

Yemenis exchange greetings after Eid al-Adha prayers attended by supporters Houthis Shiite rebels in the first day of the Muslim holiday of Eid al-Adha in Sanaa, Yemen, Saturday, Oct. 4, 2014. Muslims around the world celebrated Eid al-Adha Saturday to commemorate the willingness of the prophet Ibrahim - or Abraham as he is known in the Bible - to sacrifice his son in accordance with God's will, though in the end God provides him a sheep to sacrifice instead. The major Muslim holiday coincides this year with the Jewish holiday of Yom Kippur, the first time this has happened since 1981. (AP Photo/Hani Mohammed)

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A look at Zaydi Shiites and Houthi rebels in Yemen

Washington Examiner · October 4, 2014 2:37 pm

ISLAMIC STATE TIMELINE

fduckettf.duckett · October 4, 2014 2:30 pm

National Security

Shiite rebels are Yemen’s new masters

Hamza Hendawi · October 4, 2014 2:29 pm

Nigeria Muslims attends Eid al-Adha prayers in Lagos, Nigeria, Saturday, Oct. 4, 2014. Muslims around the world will celebrate Eid al-Adha, the Festival of Sacrifice, to mark the end of the hajj pilgrimage by slaughtering sheep, goats, cows and camels to commemorate Prophet Abraham's readiness to sacrifice his son Ismail on God's command. (AP Photo/Sunday Alamba)

Ebola casts pall over Eid holiday in West Africa

Boubacar Diallo · October 4, 2014 2:15 pm

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North Korea’s No. 2 visits South for rare talks

HYUNG-JIN KIMFOSTER KLUG · October 4, 2014 1:46 pm

American base jumper dies in Swiss Alps

Washington Examiner · October 4, 2014 1:44 pm

A lone woman shouts at pro-democracy student protesters blocking the streets in Mong Kok, Hong Kong, Saturday, Oct. 4, 2014. Friction between pro-democracy protesters and opponents of their weeklong occupation of major Hong Kong streets persisted Saturday as police denied they had any connection to criminal gangs suspected of inciting attacks on largely peaceful demonstrators. (AP Photo/Wally Santana)

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Hong Kong weary, protective, opposed to protesters

Joanna Chiu · October 4, 2014 1:38 pm

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Vatican seeks Mideast Christians’ right of return

Washington Examiner · October 4, 2014 1:35 pm