Tag: World

South Africa sends murder suspect to Botswana

Christopher Torchia · September 16, 2014 2:41 pm

Syrian aircraft crashes in city held by IS group

Diaa Hadid · September 16, 2014 2:35 pm

AP names Lynne O’Donnell Kabul bureau chief

Washington Examiner · September 16, 2014 2:24 pm

AP names Maya Alleruzzo Mideast photo editor

Washington Examiner · September 16, 2014 2:14 pm

Brazilian archbishop robbed at gunpoint in Rio

Washington Examiner · September 16, 2014 1:44 pm

Verdict postponed on Saudi Shiite cleric

Aya Batrawy · September 16, 2014 1:38 pm

In this Friday, Sept. 12, 2014 photo provided by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, an octopus swims by a mystery tugboat that was found by the NOAA research vessel Fulmar off the California coast. Federal researchers are exploring more than a dozen underwater sites where they believe ships sank in the treacherous waters outside the Golden Gate in the decades following the Gold Rush. During a five-day expedition, a team from NOAA used sonar and an underwater vehicle to examine and photograph the historic shipwrecks in the Gulf of the Farallones Marine Sanctuary, where more than 300 vessels are believed to have sunk. (AP Photo/NOAA)

Exploring ‘graveyard of ships’ near San Francisco

Terence Chea · September 16, 2014 1:33 pm

FILE - In this Sunday, Oct. 20, 2013 file photo, a youth looks from a Coptic Christian church in the Waraa neighborhood of Cairo. On Tuesday, Sept. 16, 2014, an Egyptian security official says a couple hundred Christian protesters clashed with police in Minya province of southern Egypt after holding a demonstration in front of a police station demanding authorities locate an abducted housewife. Christians, who make up about 10 percent of Egypt's nearly 85 million people, have been targeted by Islamic militants either in kidnappings for ransom or in revenge attacks since the military overthrew Islamist President Mohammed Morsi in July 2013. (AP Photo/Mohsen Nabil, File)

Coptic Christians clash with police in Egypt

Washington Examiner · September 16, 2014 1:29 pm

FILE - In this Tuesday, May 21, 2013, file photo, Egyptian Army soldiers patrol in an armored vehicle backed by a helicopter gunship during a sweep through villages in Sheikh Zuweyid, northern Sinai, Egypt. and police facilities and checkpoints. A powerful explosion killed several Egyptian police conscripts and an officer near the border town of Rafah in the restive Sinai Peninsula early Tuesday, Sept. 16, 2014, in an attack that bore the hallmarks of a local al-Qaida-inspired group, Egyptian security officials said. The Interior Ministry and a security official said the bomb was hidden deep under the asphalt of a highway, in an area called Wadi Halfa, where a joint police and army force was passing early in the morning. (AP Photo, File)

Roadside bomb kills 6 policemen in Egypt’s Sinai

Ashraf Sweilam · September 16, 2014 12:56 pm

1 Polish soldier killed, 2 wounded in Afghanistan

Washington Examiner · September 16, 2014 12:27 pm

Pope Francis, top center beneath a baldachin, weds twenty couples in St. Peter's Basilica, at the Vatican, Sunday, Sept. 14, 2014. Forty "I do's", or "Si" in Italian, were pronounced in St. Peter's Basilica Sunday as Pope Francis married 20 couples, with one bride already a mother. Francis in his homily likened families to the "bricks that build society." (AP Photo/Alberto Pizzoli, pool)

Pope to focus on grandparents after newlyweds

Nicole Winfield · September 16, 2014 12:11 pm

Police are seen outside Town Hall Square, Raadhuspladsen, in Copenhagen on Tuesday, Sept. 16, 2014. Police say shots have been fired inside a court building in the capital Copenhagen, killing one person and seriously wounding a second. In a statement Tuesday, police say a suspect has been arrested and a shotgun has been seized. There was no information on the victims or the suspect. The shooting happened just before 10 a.m. at the Bailiff's court, behind the city hall. (AP Photo/Finn Frandsen, POLFOTO) DENMARK OUT

Shots fired in Danish courthouse; 1 dead

Jan Olsen · September 16, 2014 11:16 am