Tag: World

A Sotheby's employee speaks on the phone next to large print showing former British Prime Minister Winston Churchill by British artist Banksy during a press preview of an unauthorized retrospective exhibition showing some 70 works of art in London, Friday, June, 6, 2014. Banksy is most famous for his anarchic humorous graffiti works that appear on street architecture without notice around Britain., that then appear as paintings or prints. Recently disputes have arisen over ownership of his art that appear on walls or doors due the value of the work.. (AP Photo/Alastair Grant)

Sotheby’s goes street with Banksy exhibition

Jill Lawless · June 6, 2014 1:28 pm

Britain's Queen Elizabeth lays a wreath during the French-British ceremony at the British War cemetery in Bayeux, Normandy, France, Friday, June 6, 2014. World leaders and veterans gathered by the beaches of Normandy on Friday to mark the 70th anniversary of World War Two's D-Day landings. (AP Photo/Thomas Bregardis, pool)

Why Queen Elizabeth II was marked by WWII

Thomas Adamson · June 6, 2014 1:26 pm

From left, World War II veterans of the U.S. 29th Infantry Division, Hal Baumgarter, 90 from Pennsylvania, Steve Melnikoff, 94, from Rhode Island, Don McCarthy, 90 from Maryland, and Morley Piper, 90, from Massachusetts, attend a D-Day commemoration, on Omaha Beach, western France , Friday June 6, 2014. Veterans and Normandy residents are paying tribute to the thousands who gave their lives in the D-Day invasion of Nazi-occupied France 70 years ago. World leaders and dignitaries including President Barack Obama and Queen Elizabeth II will gather to honor the more than 150,000 American, British, Canadian and other Allied D-Day troops who risked and gave their lives to defeat Adolf Hitler's Third Reich. (AP Photo/Thibault Camus)

US D-Day vets honor fallen comrades

Greg Keller · June 6, 2014 1:12 pm

17 Indian police convicted of killing arrested man

Washington Examiner · June 6, 2014 12:58 pm

German Chancellor Angela Merkel, left, Russian President Vladimir Putin, right, and Ukrainian president-elect Petro Poroshenko, center, talk after a group photo before a luncheon as they take part in the 70th anniversary of D-Day in Benouville in Normandy, France, Friday, June 6, 2014. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)

Putin, Poroshenko chat before lunch in Normandy

Julie Pace · June 6, 2014 12:28 pm

US President Barack Obama, left, and French President Francois Hollande look out over Omaha beach during a joint French-US D-Day commemoration ceremony at the Normandy American Cemetery and Memorial in Colleville-sur-mer, Normandy, France, Friday June 6, 2014, marking the 70th anniversary of the World War II Allied landings in Normandy. (AP Photo/Alain Jocard, pool)

D-Day anniversary events around US and abroad

The Associated Press · June 6, 2014 12:07 pm

Ukraine president-elect Petro Poroshenko attends a joint news conference with German Chancellor Angela Merkel, prior to a meeting at the chancellery in Berlin, Thursday, June 5, 2014. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber)

Russian, Ukrainian leaders may meet in Normandy

LORI HINNANTNATALIYA VASILYEVA · June 6, 2014 11:39 am

3 Philippine senators charged with plunder

Oliver Teves · June 6, 2014 10:50 am

Sister Cristina Scuccia poses with the trophy and holding the cross on the stage after winning the final of the Italian version of the TV talent show "The Voice" in Milan, Italy, Thursday, June 5, 2014. With her full habit, sensible shoes and cheering nuns in her camp, Sister Cristina Scuccia made it to Thursday's finals of the Italian version of "The Voice" after capturing attention, and millions of YouTube viewers, with her first-round performance in March. At left is Italian rapper Dj-AX and right Italian singer Noemi. (AP Photo/Luca Bruno)

Italy’s singing nun wins ‘Voice’ competition

Washington Examiner · June 6, 2014 10:44 am

in Bad Aibling, southern Germany, on Monday, July 8, 2013. (AP Photo/Matthias Schrader)

German spy agency comes clean on secret sites

Frank Jordans · June 6, 2014 10:00 am

Euroskeptics surge but don’t win in UK election

Washington Examiner · June 6, 2014 9:57 am

Members of a hardline Sikh group clash with guards of the Sikhâs holiest shrine , the Golden Temple, in Amritsar, India, Friday, June 6, 2014. Half a dozen people were wounded Friday as members of a Sikh group brandishing swords and wooden sticks clashed with guards at the Sikhs' holiest shrine in India, an official said. The clash occurred during a ceremony marking the anniversary of the storming of the shrine by the Indian army in June 1984 in the northern city of Amritsar, said Kiran Jyoti Kaur, a Golden Temple management spokeswoman. (AP Photo Prabhjot Gill)

Sikhs, guards clash with swords at India shrine

Washington Examiner · June 6, 2014 9:53 am