Tag: World

FILE - A Sunday, Jan. 26 , 2014 from files showing President of AS Monaco Dmitry Rybolovlev, left, and Prince Albert II Of Monaco, as they attend the French League One soccer match Monaco vs Marseille, in Monaco stadium. A Swiss court has ordered Russian billionaire Dmitry Rybolovlev to pay $4.5 billion to his ex-wife, in what could end up being the biggest divorce settlement in history. In papers delivered to the parties Monday, May 19, 2014, the Geneva Tribunal of First Instance said the 47-year-old Rybolovlev, a co-owner of the French soccer club AS Monaco, must pay 4,020,555,987.80 Swiss francs ($4,509,375,184.80) to ex-wife Elena Rybolovleva, also 47, of Geneva. The judgment shows that his wife also won two pieces of real estate in the ultra-wealthy area of Geneva known as Cologny, where the couple once lived together, and confirmed her custody of their 13-year-old daughter Anna. They also have an older daughter, Ekaterina, after meeting as university students in Perm, Russia, and marrying there in 1987. The divorce case began in 2008, when Forbes estimated his worth at $12.8 billion. (AP Photo/Lionel Cironneau)

Russian oligarch faces $4.5 billion Swiss divorce

John Heilprin · May 19, 2014 8:47 pm

In this photo taken on, Sunday, May 18, 2014, armed hunters gather before looking for around 300 abducted school girls in Maiduguri, Nigeria. Hundreds of hunters armed with homemade rifles, poisoned arrows and amulets say their spiritual powers can lead them to the nearly 300 schoolgirls abducted by Islamic extremists. (AP Photo/Haruna Umar)

Traditional Nigerian hunters want to find girls

HARUNA UMARMICHELLE FAUL · May 19, 2014 8:46 pm

FILE - In this Friday, March 18, 2011 file photo, then Libyan senior Rebel commander Khalifa Hifter leaves a press conference in the court house in the center of Benghazi, eastern Libya. Libya's army chief ordered the deployment of Islamist-led militias to the capital Tripoli on Monday, May 19, 2014 in response to the storming of parliament by forces loyal to a renegade general, paving the way for a possible showdown between rival militia fighters. The revolt by Gen. Khalifa Hifter threatens to detonate the long volatile divisions among the multiple militias that dominate Libya amid the weakness of the central government and military. (AP Photo/Anja Niedringhaus, File)

General’s revolt threatens to new fight in Libya

ESAM MOHAMEDMAGGIE MICHAEL · May 19, 2014 8:38 pm

Huge femur in Argentina could be biggest dino yet

Washington Examiner · May 19, 2014 8:35 pm

In this May 15, 2014 photo, trash floats on a polluted water channel that flows into the Guanabara Bay in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. With just over two years to go until the Rio Olympics, nearly 70 percent of the sewage in the metropolitan area of 12 million inhabitants continues to flow untreated, along with thousands of tons of garbage daily, into area rivers, the bay and even Rio's famed beaches like Copacabana and Ipanema.Several Olympic sports federations raised fears that Rio's polluted waters could prove harmful to athletes' health. Exposure to fecal matter can cause Hepatitis A, dysentery, cholera other diseases. (AP Photo/Felipe Dana)

Energy and Environment

Sailing official wants Rio water pollution tests

Stephen Wade · May 19, 2014 8:01 pm

Pro-Russians rest at a checkpoint outside Slovyansk, eastern Ukraine, Monday, May 19, 2014. Heavy mortar fire outside the eastern Ukrainian city of Slovyansk has damaged a large gas pipeline and set off a fire. Slovyansk has been the epicenter of fighting between Ukrainian troops and pro-Russian insurgents, who have seized government buildings across the east. (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko)

Putin orders troops near Ukraine to return home

Vladimir Isachenkov · May 19, 2014 7:41 pm

Somali militants kill 12 in Kenya border ambush

Washington Examiner · May 19, 2014 7:25 pm

Iraqi PM’s bloc wins most parliamentary seats

SINAN SALAHEDDINSAMEER N. YACOUB · May 19, 2014 6:30 pm

File - In this April 22, 2014 file photo, Palestinians wave their national flags during a rally to demand the end of Palestinian political divisions, at the main square of Gaza City. Propelled by crises, rivals Hamas and Fatah are moving toward forming a unity government by next week, in what appears to be their most promising attempt yet to end a seven-year rift that weakened the Palestinian case for statehood. (AP Photo/Adel Hana, File)

Palestinian rivals closer to ending 7-year rift

KARIN LAUBIBRAHIM BARZAK · May 19, 2014 6:12 pm

FILE - In this May 10, 2014 file photo, former members of self-defense groups wear their newly-issued rural police uniforms, and salute during the start of a ceremony in Tepalcatepec, Mexico. The federal government acknowledges that the new rural police force in Michoacan state is being given uniforms and powerful weapons with minimal background checks and virtually no training. (AP Photo/Eduardo Verdugo, File)

Mexico’s new rural police: Same old problems?

alberto-arce · May 19, 2014 6:11 pm

Protest turns violent in Mali as tensions rise

Washington Examiner · May 19, 2014 5:59 pm

Yemen goes on alert over fears of militant attacks

Ahmed AlHaj · May 19, 2014 5:37 pm