Tag: World

Parti Quebecois leader Pauline Marois is hugged by Nicole Leger after taking the stage following the PQ defeat in the provincial election Monday April 7, 2014 in Montreal. Marois also lost her seat in Charlevoix-Cote-de-Beaupre to Liberal candidate Caroline Simard. (AP Photo/The Canadian Press, Paul Chiasson)

Quebec separatist party suffers crushing defeat

ROB GILLIESSEAN FARRELL · April 8, 2014 11:30 am

Police officers attend the home of Peaches Geldof in Wrotham, Kent, Monday, April 7, 2014. Peaches Geldof, the wild-child second daughter of concert organizer Bob Geldof who worked as a model, a television presenter and a fashion writer and filled the pages of British tabloids with her late-night antics, has died at age 25. There was no immediate word on the cause of her death at her home in Wrotham, Kent, southeast England. Her father said in a statement Monday: "Peaches has died. We are beyond pain." (AP Photo/PA, Gareth Fuller) UNITED KINGDOM OUT, NO SALES, NO ARCHIVE

UK police probing unexplained Peaches Geldof death

Jill Lawless · April 8, 2014 11:28 am

UK scientists make body parts in lab

Maria Cheng · April 8, 2014 11:19 am

European foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton, left, and Iranian Foreign Minister Mohamad Javad Zarif, right, wait for the start of closed-door nuclear talks in Vienna, Austria, Tuesday, April 8, 2014. Iran and six world powers are hoping to narrow differences at a new round of nuclear talks, less than three months before an informal July deadline for a deal. (AP Photo/Ronald Zak)

National Security

Iran, 6 powers seek to narrow nuclear differences

George Jahn · April 8, 2014 10:11 am

Egypt women: Rights on paper, not yet on ground

Laura Dean · April 8, 2014 9:29 am

National Security

Ukraine feels nervous as big powers debate fate

Maria Danilova · April 8, 2014 9:19 am

Visitors try out Samsung Electronics Co.'s Galaxy Note 3 at its showroom in Seoul, South Korea, Tuesday, April 1, 2014. Declining smartphone prices hit profit at Samsung for a second straight quarter. The consumer technology heavyweight said Tuesday that it expects operating income of about 8.4 trillion won ($8 billion) for the January-March quarter, down 4 percent from a year earlier. (AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon)

Samsung’s profit falls as smartphones get cheaper

Youkyung Lee · April 8, 2014 7:58 am

Electrical device helps paralyzed men move legs

Maria Cheng · April 8, 2014 7:53 am

People gathered in front of a barricade at the regional administration building in Donetsk, Ukraine, Monday, April 7, 2014. A Ukrainian news agency is reporting that pro-Russian separatists who have seized the regional administration building in the eastern Ukrainian city of Donetsk proclaimed the region an independent republic. The activists on Monday also called for a referendum on the sovereignty of the Donetsk region, which borders Russia, to be held no later than May 11, the Interfax news agency reported. (AP Photo/Andrey Basevych)

National Security

Pro-Russians call east Ukraine region independent

Peter Leonard · April 8, 2014 2:43 am

20 die as criminals clash in Mexico border state

Washington Examiner · April 8, 2014 2:36 am

Indian voters wait in queues to cast their votes during the first phase of elections in Dibrugarh, in the northeastern state of Assam, India, Monday, April 7, 2014. Indians began voting Monday in the world's biggest election, with the opposition heading into the polls with strong momentum on promises of economic renewal. The country's 814 million eligible voters will vote in stages over the next five weeks. (AP Photo/Altaf Qadri)

India starts voting in world’s largest election

Wasbir Hussain · April 8, 2014 1:39 am

In this photo taken on March 28, 2014 and released by a neutral activist youth group, About our Neighborhood Hamidiyeh Simply, which has been authenticated based on its contents and other AP reporting, shows Dutch Father Francis Van Der Lugt, 72, in Homs, Syria. A masked gunman opened fire on Van Der Lugt, a well-known elderly Dutch priest, in the central Syrian city of Homs on Monday, killing him instantly, a fellow priest and an activist group said. (AP Photo/About our Neighborhood Hamidiyeh Simply)

Gunman kills Dutch priest in Syrian city of Homs

Albert Aji · April 8, 2014 1:21 am