Tag: World

Chief minister of troubled Myanmar state retires

AYE AYE WIN · June 20, 2014 5:17 am

This May 20, 2014 photo, the Teatro Amazonas is seen as dusk in Manaus, Brazil. The theater is the symbol of Manaus, a city carved out of the rainforest, still so remote it can only be reached by plane or boat even though it has grown to over 2 million inhabitants. (AP Photo/Felipe Dana)

Not just jungle: opera in Brazil’s Amazon Cup city

Jenny Barchfield · June 20, 2014 4:03 am

Chief minister of troubled Myanmar state retires and religious affairs minister is fired

Washington Examiner · June 20, 2014 2:40 am

Twelve-fingered Family Spreads World Cup Cheer

Washington Examiner · June 20, 2014 2:14 am

Search for missing Malaysian plane to shift south

Rod McGuirk · June 20, 2014 2:00 am

Silvia Santos, facing camera, embraces her daughter Ana Carolina at their home in Brasilia, Brazil, Thursday, June 19, 2014. All the members of the Silva family were born with an extra digit on each hand as a result of a genetic condition known as polydactyly. Rather than recoil in the face of constant stares by curious onlookers the 14 members of the family spanning four generations seem to embrace their physical differences with pride. (AP Photo/Eraldo Peres)

6-fingered family roots for Brazil’s 6th World Cup

Tais Vilela · June 20, 2014 1:30 am

France's midfielder Paul Pogba heads the ball during an official training session the day before the group E World Cup soccer match between France and Switzerland at the Arena Fonte Nova stadium in Salvador, Brazil, Thursday, June 19, 2014. (AP Photo/David Vincent)

Tension builds ahead of Italy v Costa Rica match

John Pye · June 20, 2014 12:55 am

Brazil's Paulinho (8) watches as Mexico's goalkeeper Guillermo Ochoa punches the ball clear of the goal during the group A World Cup soccer match between Brazil and Mexico at the Arena Castelao in Fortaleza, Brazil, Tuesday, June 17, 2014. (AP Photo/Eduardo Verdugo)

BRAZIL BEAT: Even Cesar’s son impressed by Ochoa

Washington Examiner · June 20, 2014 12:54 am

In this image made available from Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago, on Thursday June 19, 2014 shows a skeleton in a grave in northern Syria in 2010. In a skeleton more than 6,200 years old, scientists have found the earliest known evidence of infection with a parasitic worm that now afflicts more than 200 million people worldwide. Archaeologists discovered a parasite egg near the pelvis of a child skeleton in northern Syria and say it dates back to a time when ancient societies first used irrigation systems to grow crops. (AP Photo/Gil Stein, Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago)

Scientists find 6,200-year-old parasite egg

Maria Cheng · June 20, 2014 12:17 am

Hackers take down website of Brazilian federation

Washington Examiner · June 20, 2014 12:14 am

Masked protesters carry a banner and roses while marching in Sao Paulo, Brazil, Thursday, June 19, 2014. The protest in Sao Paulo, Brazil's biggest city that is hosting a World Cup match, was called by the Free Fare movement, the group that was behind the first protests last year that sparked roiling anti-government demonstrations across Brazil. (AP Photo/Eduardo Verdugo)

Protest draws 2,000 in Brazil on Cup match day

ADRIANA GOMEZ LICON · June 19, 2014 11:01 pm

FILE - This Dec. 3, 2011 file photo shows Iraq's Shiite Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki talks during an interview with The Associated Press in Baghdad, Iraq. The prospect of the U.S. military returning to the fight in Iraq has turned congressional hawks into doves. Lawmakers who eagerly voted to authorize military force 12 years ago to oust Saddam Hussein and destroy weapons of mass destruction that were never found now harbor doubts that air strikes will turn back insurgents threatening Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki's government and Baghdad. (AP Photo/Hadi Mizban, File)

Iraq: al-Maliki’s rivals jockey to replace him

HAMZA HENDAWIQASSIM ABDUL-ZAHRA · June 19, 2014 10:54 pm