Tag: World

Love locks are fixed on the Pont des Arts in Paris, Wednesday April 16, 2014. A recent fad among travellers of hitching padlocks on bridges and at tourist attractions worldwide to symbolically immortalize their amorous attraction has swept up this reputed City of Love more than most. Now, two American-born women who live in Paris say they've had enough, launching a petition drive to try to get mostly laissez-faire city officials to step in and do something about what they call an unbearable eyesore in a majestic municipality. (AP Photo/Remy de la Mauviniere)

Aesthetics-minded Americans decry Paris love locks

Jamey Keaten · April 20, 2014 9:42 am

South Korean rescue team members work to rescue passengers believed to have been trapped in the sunken ferry Sewol near the buoys which were installed to mark the vessel in the water off the southern coast near Jindo, south of Seoul, South Korea, Sunday, April 20, 2014. After more than three days of frustration and failure, divers on Sunday finally found a way into the submerged ferry off South Korea's southern shore, discovering more than a dozen bodies inside the ship and pushing the confirmed death toll to over four dozen, officials said. (AP Photo/Lee Jin-man)

Transcript reveals confusion over ferry evacuation

Gillian Wong · April 20, 2014 9:26 am

A weeping relative of a missing passenger aboard the sunken ferry Sewol shouts as she tries to march toward the presidential house to protest the government's rescue operation in Jindo, South Korea, Sunday, April 20, 2014. After more than three days of frustration and failure, divers on Sunday finally found a way into the submerged ferry off South Korea's southern shore, discovering more than a dozen bodies inside the ship and pushing the confirmed death toll to over four dozen, officials said. (AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon)

Divers begin pulling bodies from sunken ferry

FOSTER KLUGHYUNG-JIN KIM · April 20, 2014 5:44 am

Daughter of Nepalese mountaineer Ang Kaji Sherpa, killed in an avalanche on Mount Everest, cries as her father's body is brought to the Sherpa Monastery in Katmandu, Nepal, Saturday, April 19, 2014. Rescuers were searching through piles of snow and ice on the slopes of Mount Everest on Saturday for four Sherpa guides who were buried by an avalanche that killed 12 other Nepalese guides in the deadliest disaster on the world's highest peak. The Sherpa people are one of the main ethnic groups in Nepal's alpine region, and many make their living as climbing guides on Everest and other Himalayan peaks. (AP Photo/Niranjan Shrestha)

Energy and Environment

13th body pulled from snow in Everest avalanche

BiNaj Gurubacharya · April 20, 2014 4:49 am

In this photo made from video, two of the four French journalists who went missing in Syria last summer, Didier Francois, foreground, and Edouard Elias, right, leave a local hospital after a medical check, in Akcakale, Turkey, Saturday, April 19, 2014. Four French journalists who went missing in Syria last summer were found blindfolded and cuffed in Turkey's southeast Sanliurfa province late Friday, according to a private Turkish news agency. Dogan News Agency (DHA) said Edouard Elias, Didier Francois, Nicolas Henin and Pierre Torres were found by Turkish soldiers on routine patrol after the journalists were dropped off near the Turkey-Syria border by an unknown group. (AP Photo/DHA) TURKEY OUT TV OUT

4 French journalists abducted in Syria freed, safe

DIAA HADIDELAINE GANLEY · April 20, 2014 4:28 am

Energy and Environment

Everest avalanche a reminder of risks Sherpas face

BINAJ GURUBACHARYATIM SULLIVAN · April 20, 2014 3:59 am

Malaysian Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs Hamzah Zainudin, left, listens as Malaysia's acting Transport Minister Hishammuddin Hussein answers a question from a journalist during a press conference on the missing Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 at a hotel in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, Saturday, April 19, 2014. An underwater robotic submarine is expected to finish searching a narrowed down area of the Indian Ocean seabed for the missing Malaysia Airlines plane within the next week, after completing six missions and so far coming up empty, the search coordination center said Saturday. (AP Photo/Vincent Thian)

Sub search for missing jet to be finished in week

Margie Mason · April 20, 2014 3:05 am

FILE - In this April 23, 2013 file photo, a group of Japanese lawmakers, seen silhouetted in the middle of the photo, offer prayers at the Yasukuni Shrine, which honors Japan's war dead, including World War II leaders convicted of war crimes, in Tokyo during an annual spring festival. A Japanese Cabinet minister visited the Tokyo shrine that honors the dead including war criminals in what has repeatedly caused friction with Japan's neighbors. Lawmaker Keiji Furuya, who chairs the National Public Safety Commission, said on his website that he paid respects Sunday morning, April 20, 2014, at the Yasukuni shrine ahead of a festival that starts Monday.(AP Photo/Koji Sasahara, File)

Japan minister at shrine honoring war criminals

Yuri Kageyama · April 20, 2014 2:31 am

Raw: Greeks Celebrate Easter With “Rocket War”

Washington Examiner · April 20, 2014 1:04 am

Divers recover 10 more bodies from inside sunken South Korean ferry; death toll now 46

Washington Examiner · April 19, 2014 11:19 pm

Christian pilgrims hold candles at the church of the Holy Sepulcher, traditionally believed to be the burial site of Jesus Christ, during the ceremony of the Holy Fire in Jerusalem's Old City, Saturday, April 19, 2014. The "holy fire" was passed among worshippers outside the Church and then taken to the Church of the Nativity in the West Bank town of Bethlehem, where tradition holds Jesus was born, and from there to other Christian communities in Israel and the West Bank. (AP Photo/Dan Balilty)

Holy fire ceremony draws thousands in Jerusalem

Ian Deitch · April 19, 2014 9:00 pm

At Easter vigil, Pope seeks to bring faith to ‘ends of the Earth’

Nicole Winfield · April 19, 2014 8:53 pm