Tag: World

Sue Townsend, creator of Adrian Mole, dies at 68

Jill Lawless · April 11, 2014 3:03 pm

In this photo released by the Syrian official news agency SANA, Flames rise from damaged cars at the site where two car bombs exploded at a commercial street inhabited mostly by members of President Bashar Assad's minority Alawite sect, in Homs province, central Syria, Wednesday April 9, 2014. Two car bombs exploded Wednesday in a government-held district of Syria's battleground city of Homs, killing at least 25 people and wounding more than 100, state media said. (AP Photo/SANA)

Syria death toll from rebel infighting rises to 68

Bassem Mroue · April 11, 2014 2:59 pm

FILE - In this Thursday, Dec. 5, 2013 file photo, rangers of the Kenya Wildlife Service and Kenya Forest Service take cover while engaging in a mock ambush as they stage a demonstration of the skills they have learned over the last few days of joint anti-poaching training with Britain's 3rd Battalion, The Parachute Regiment, in the forest near Nanyuki, Kenya. Kenya's central government will oversee the running of the country's wildlife authority for the next three months in a bid to stop poaching of the country's elephants and rhinos, an official with the Ministry of Environment and Natural resources said Friday, April 11, 2014. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis, File)

Kenya gov’t to oversee wildlife authority actions

Tom Odula · April 11, 2014 2:51 pm

In this photo taken Wednesday, April 9, 2014, former British Army captain Levison Wood sets out walking along the Nile river from Juba, in South Sudan. Close calls with crocodiles and a brutal civil war have not deterred Levison from attempting to walk the length of the Nile, a 4,250 mile journey along the world's longest river that will see him pass through seven countries. (AP Photo/Ilya Gridneff)

Crocodile close calls: UK man walks length of Nile

Ilya Gridneff · April 11, 2014 2:42 pm

Italy: Berlusconi ally declared fugitive

Washington Examiner · April 11, 2014 2:29 pm

People are reflected on the electronic board of a securities firm in Tokyo, Friday, April 11, 2014. Tokyo's Nikkei 225 stock average fell more than 400 points at one point in morning trading. (AP Photo/Koji Sasahara)

Tech sell-off roils global markets

Pan Pylas · April 11, 2014 2:28 pm

India's main opposition Bharatiya Janata Party's prime ministerial candidate Narendra Modi addresses his supporters during a campaign rally at Balasore, 200 kilometers (124 miles) from the eastern Indian city of Bhubaneswar, India, Friday, April 11, 2014. Indians voted in the crucial third phase of national elections Thursday, with millions going to the polls in the heartland states that are essential to the main opposition Hindu nationalist party's bid to end the 10-year rule of Congress party. Portraits in the background show former prime minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee, left, and senior party leader L.K. Advani. (AP Photo/Biswaranjan Rout)

Indian PM aspirant’s marital status spurs question

Ashok Sharma · April 11, 2014 2:26 pm

British academic Richard Hoggart dies at 95

Washington Examiner · April 11, 2014 2:23 pm

FILE - In this Monday, Oct. 27, 2008 file photo, Dr. Ron Pundak, Director General of the Peres Center for Peace from 2001 to 2012, is photographed at the center in Tel Aviv, Israel. Pundak, 59, an Israeli academic who was instrumental in initiating peace talks with the Palestinians in the 1990s, has died after a long illness. Pundak helped initiate backdoor channels of communications with the Palestinians that paved the way to the 1993 Oslo Accords, which created the Palestinian Authority and set up self-rule areas for the Palestinians. (AP Photo/Tara Todras-Whitehill, File)

Israeli peace activist Ron Pundak dies at 59

Washington Examiner · April 11, 2014 1:11 pm

FILE - In this May 1, 2013 file photo, Iraqi Deputy Prime Minister Saleh al-Mutlaq gives an interview to The Associated Press in Baghdad, Iraq. An Iraqi lawmaker says the country's Deputy Prime Minister, Saleh al-Mutlaq escaped an assassination attempt in which militants dressed as soldiers opened fire at his convoy west of Baghdad. The attack was the latest in Iraq as the country heads toward crucial parliamentary elections on April 30. (AP Photo/Karim Kadim, File)

Iraq’s deputy PM escapes assassination attempt

Qassim AbdulZahra · April 11, 2014 12:46 pm

Sri Lanka says it killed 3 trying to revive rebels

Bharatha Mallawarachi · April 11, 2014 11:51 am

Swiss say Palestinians can join Geneva Conventions

Washington Examiner · April 11, 2014 11:23 am