Tag: World

FILE- In this March 20, 2013, file photo provided by the Vatican paper L' Osservatore Romano, Pope Francis, right, meets Bartholomew I, the first ecumenical patriarch to attend the installation of a Pope since the Catholic and Orthodox church split nearly 1,000 years ago, at the Vatican. Bartholomew I, spiritual leader of 250 million Orthodox Christians, said a meeting with Pope Francis in Jerusalem in May 2014, will help move the two churches closer to ending their nearly one-thousand-year divide. (AP Photo/Osservatore Romano, File)

Orthodox patriarch eyes unity in visit with pope

Desmond Butler · May 9, 2014 5:08 pm

Interpol offers help rescuing Nigerian girls

Washington Examiner · May 9, 2014 4:58 pm

Schoolchildren walk past a newspaper placard reporting the election victory of Jacob Zuma's African National Congress (ANC) party, based on preliminary results, as the children leave after making a visit to the former house of the late South African President Nelson Mandela, in the Soweto township of Johannesburg, South Africa Friday, May 9, 2014. Vote-counting in elections in South Africa is almost complete, indicating a comfortable win for the ruling African National Congress but also a strengthening of key opposition rivals that promised change after 20 years of leadership by the party that led the fight against apartheid. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis)

South Africa ruling party headed for win

Christopher Torchia · May 9, 2014 4:54 pm

Syrian civilians fill a city square as they return to Homs, Syria on Friday, May 9, 2014. Bulldozers cleared rubble Friday from the streets of battle-scarred districts in the central Syrian city after government troops entered the last rebel-held neighborhoods as part of an agreement that also granted opposition fighters safe exit from the city. (AP Photo)

Syrians return to damaged homes after rebels leave

Washington Examiner · May 9, 2014 4:52 pm

Honduras extradites drug suspect to US, a first

Washington Examiner · May 9, 2014 4:42 pm

A man walks by the College of Arms in the City of London, Friday, May 9, 2014. The College of Arms, which has overseen noble titles and insignia since the 15th century, has ruled that same-sex married couples may join their heraldic symbols in the same way as heterosexual following the legalization of same-sex marriage in March. (AP Photo/Sang Tan)

UK gay couples get right to combine coats of arms

Jill Lawless · May 9, 2014 4:22 pm

UK prosecutor: Rolf Harris assaulted young girls

Jill Lawless · May 9, 2014 3:59 pm

Dramatic improvement in controlling Ebola outbreak

Sarah DiLorenzo · May 9, 2014 3:54 pm

3 dead, 1 missing after Ghana helicopter crash

Washington Examiner · May 9, 2014 2:27 pm

Bomb hoax forces Acropolis Museum evacuation

Washington Examiner · May 9, 2014 1:53 pm

NATO chief: Putin’s Crimea visit ‘inappropriate’

Washington Examiner · May 9, 2014 12:43 pm

Loyal to zip-up Godzilla, Japan wary of US remake

Yuri Kageyama · May 9, 2014 12:21 pm