Tag: World

Indonesia adds more copters to fight forest fires

Washington Examiner · September 17, 2014 10:27 am

A man talking on a phone walks past images of Scots inventor Alexander Graham Bell and Scots doctor Marie Stopes outside the National Library of Scotland in Edinburgh, Scotland, Tuesday, Sept. 16, 2014. The land that gave the world haggis and tartan has produced so much more, from golf and television to Dolly the Sheep and "Grand Theft Auto." If Scotland splits from Britain after a referendum this week, it can stake a claim to inventions that transformed modern life, from surgical anesthetic and penicillin to television, the telephone and even the flush toilet. (AP Photo/Matt Dunham)

Scots’ inventions are fuel for independence debate

Jill Lawless · September 17, 2014 10:24 am

Chief of the Forensic Police Institute Pornchai Suteerakune updates reporters on the deaths of two British tourists who were found dead on a beach in Koh Tao, a popular diving destination in the Gulf of Thailand, in Bangkok, Thailand, Wednesday, Sept. 17, 2014. Police on the scenic Thai resort island searched hotels and workers' residences Tuesday looking for clues into the slayings of the tourists whose nearly naked, battered bodies were found on a beach a day earlier.(AP photo/Sakchai Lalit)

Thailand conducts autopsies on slain Britons

Washington Examiner · September 17, 2014 9:49 am

Swedish king involved in car crash, unhurt

Washington Examiner · September 17, 2014 9:38 am

US man held for alleged attempt to swim to N Korea

HyungJin Kim · September 17, 2014 9:28 am

Government workers remove bloated carcasses of cows that died in the floods in Srinagar, Indian-controlled Kashmir, Tuesday, Sept. 16, 2014. Health workers were scrambling Tuesday to manage a mounting health crisis nearly two weeks after massive flooding engulfed much of Kashmir, where they are treating cases of diarrhea, skin allergies and fungus as they hope the stagnant waters do not create conditions for more serious disease outbreaks. (AP Photo/Dar Yasin)

Doctors: Foul floodwaters sicken people in Kashmir

Aijaz Hussain · September 17, 2014 9:27 am

France arrests 5 in militant women recruiting ring

Washington Examiner · September 17, 2014 9:23 am

In this Feb. 4, 2013 photo, Ilham Tohti, an outspoken scholar of China's Turkic Uighur ethnic minority, speaks during an interview at his home in Beijing, China. Tohti was set to go on trial on Wednesday, Sept. 17, 2014 on separatism charges in the country's far western region of Xinjiang. (AP Photo/Andy Wong)

Chinese minority scholar on trial for separatism

Jack Chang · September 17, 2014 8:54 am

Fiji's military ruler Voreqe Bainimarama, left, casts his vote in a national election in Suva, Fiji, Wednesday, Sept. 17, 2014. Thousands of Fijians got their first chance to vote in eight years in an election that promises to finally restore democracy to the South Pacific nation of 900,000. (AP Photo/Pita Ligaiula)

Fijians go to polls after 8 years of military rule

Nick Perry · September 17, 2014 5:27 am

Bangladesh top court commutes death sentence of a senior Islamist

Washington Examiner · September 17, 2014 5:07 am

Lava flows from Philippine volcano; thousands flee

Teresa Cerojano · September 17, 2014 4:47 am

Australia promises $6.4 million to fight Ebola

Washington Examiner · September 17, 2014 4:22 am