Tag: World

Costa Rica soccer fans celebrate their team's World Cup victory over Italy in San Jose, Costa Rica, Friday, June 20, 2014. Costa Rica won 1-0 in Brazil. (AP Photo/Enrique Martinez)

Costa Ricans fill streets to celebrate Cup win

Washington Examiner · June 20, 2014 9:00 pm

Lebanese police intelligence gather outside a hotel after security forces raided there in Beirut's Hamra district, Lebanon, Friday, June 20, 2014. Security forces raided the hotel over suspected "terrorist cells" inside it, a police official said. In eastern Lebanon, a suicide bomber detonated his vehicle Friday near a police checkpoint, killing a few people amid heightened concerns of renewed violence, the country's state-run news agency and security officials said. (AP Photo/Bilal Hussein)

Bombing, arrests spark fear in Lebanon

Zeina Karam · June 20, 2014 8:55 pm

Pope Francis exchange gifts with the Grand Master of the Sovereign Order of Malta, Fra' Matthew Festing, during a private audience in the pontiff's private library at the Vatican, Friday, June 20, 2014. (AP Photo/Claudio Peri, Pool)

Pope’s view on legalizing drugs: Just say no

Nicole Winfield · June 20, 2014 8:43 pm

RESENDING TO ADD NAME OF PHYSIOTHERAPIST - Uruguay's Luis Suarez, left, celebrates with the physiotherapist Walter Ferreira after scoring the opening goal during the group D World Cup soccer match between Uruguay and England at the Itaquerao Stadium in Sao Paulo, Brazil, Thursday, June 19, 2014. (AP Photo/Matt Dunham)

Cancer-recovering physio who got Suarez fit again

Eric Nunez · June 20, 2014 8:27 pm

Doctors Without Borders: Ebola ‘out of control’

Sarah DiLorenzo · June 20, 2014 8:22 pm

In this photo taken on Tuesday June 10, 2014, Mohammed Meslamani, center, a player of Syrian opposition team, made up of former professional and national youth soccer players who became refugees in Lebanon, fights for the ball against Lebanese players, left and right, during a match against a Lebanese team, at a makeshift pitch in Tripoli, north Lebanon. The squad of refugee players are formally known as the Free Syrian National Team. On rare occasions, when they play against a local club in the northern Lebanese city of Tripoli, they sport their version of the national uniform: black-and-white jerseys adorned with a Syrian revolutionarily flag with three _ instead of two_ stars, pressing against their hearts. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla)

Ex-Syrian players form opposition team in exile

Barbara Surk · June 20, 2014 8:21 pm

Ukraine orders 1-week government cease-fire

DAVID McHUGHMARKO DOBRNJAKOVIC · June 20, 2014 8:17 pm

In a Tuesday, June 3, 2014 photo, Emma Czornobaj is pictured at the Montreal Courthouse in Montreal. Czornobaj, who stopped to help a group of ducklings on the side of the road, was found guilty Friday, June 20, 2014, of causing the deaths of a motorcyclist and his passenger daughter who slammed into her parked car on on June 27, 2010. (AP Photo/The Canadian Press, Graham Hughes)

Canada woman stops for ducks; guilty in 2 deaths

Washington Examiner · June 20, 2014 7:52 pm

Saudi King Abdullah makes brief stop in Egypt

Washington Examiner · June 20, 2014 7:45 pm

U.S. Vice President Joe Biden stands before the press at the National Palace in Guatemala City, Friday, June 20, 2014. The Obama administration moved Friday to stem a flood of Central American children and families that has overwhelmed the U.S. immigration system, dispatching Vice President Joe Biden to the region to warn against the perils of the trip and announcing that it will start to detain families at the border instead of releasing them on their own recognizance. (AP Photo/Luis Soto)

Biden flies to Central America amid migrant crisis

Sonia Perez · June 20, 2014 7:42 pm

Berlusconi appeals bunga bunga conviction

Washington Examiner · June 20, 2014 6:56 pm

A woman washes clothing at a camp for internally displaced Afghans on World Refugee Day in Kabul, Afghanistan, Friday, June 20, 2014. The plight of millions of refugees everywhere is marked Friday on World Refugee Day. The United Nations refugee agency says that at the end of last year, more than 50 million people have been forced from their homes worldwide, the highest figure of displaced since World War II. (AP Photo/Rahmat Gul)

A look at countries generating the most refugees

John Heilprin · June 20, 2014 6:54 pm