PHOTOS: Makeshift hospital treats patients after airstrikes
A makeshift hospital treats patients in the besieged rebel bastion of Douma, northeast of the Syrian capital Damascus, following reported airstrikes by government forces. Some 191,000 people have been...
View ArticlePHOTOS: Six months into the worldís worst-ever Ebola outbreak
The number of deaths linked to the disease has now passed 3,000, according to a WHO toll published Friday. In just two days, more than 150 people died in Liberia, the hardest-hit country. And WHO has...
View ArticlePHOTOS: Hong Kong Democracy Protest
The activists are using the protest to press their demand for Hong Kongers to be able to genuinely elect their own leader in 2017. Beijing last month ruled out allowing open nominations, saying...
View ArticlePhotos: Mount Ontake Volcano Erupts in Japan – 250 Trapped, 11 Hurt
TOKYO — At least 11 people were injured when a volcano erupted in central Japan Saturday, catching mountain climbers by surprise and trapping more than 250 people. Authorities say seven of the injured...
View ArticlePhotos: Mount Ontake Volcano Erupts in Japan – 250 Trapped, 11 Hurt
TOKYO — At least 11 people were injured when a volcano erupted in central Japan Saturday, catching mountain climbers by surprise and trapping more than 250 people. Authorities say seven of the injured...
View ArticlePHOTOS: Village re-enacts life of Spanish bandit Jose Maria El Tempranillo
A re-enactment of the life of Spanish bandit Jose Maria El Tempranillo took place in Grazalema, Spain October 4, 2014. El Tempranillo, along with a band of 50 men, specialized in the robberies of...
View ArticlePHOTOS: First case of Ebola being transmitted outside of Africa
Spain was investigating today how a nurse in Madrid could have become infected with Ebola, sparking fears of the first outbreak outside Africa. The 40-year-old began to feel ill on September 30 while...
View ArticlePHOTOS: First case of Ebola being transmitted outside of Africa
Spain was investigating today how a nurse in Madrid could have become infected with Ebola, sparking fears of the first outbreak outside Africa. The 40-year-old began to feel ill on September 30 while...
View ArticlePHOTOS: Blood Moon, Lunar Eclipse
Evening viewers in much of Asia and early risers in parts of the Americas were treated to a stunning lunar eclipse on Wednesday, October 8, 2014 though clouds obscured it for some. Lucky ones saw the...
View ArticlePHOTOS: Tension in Turkey after violent protest
The Kurds of Syria and Iraq have become a major focal point in the war against the Islamic State group, with Kurdish populations in both countries coming under significant threat by the militants’...
View ArticlePHOTOS: Indonesia’s Mount Sinabung erupts again
Residents watched as dark giant ash clouds rose from the crater of Mount Sinabung volcano during an eruption on October 8, 2014, on Indonesia’s Sumatra island, following an earlier eruption on October...
View ArticlePHOTOS: Malala Yousafzai and Kailash Satyarthi win Nobel Peace Prize
OSLO, Norway (AP) — Taliban attack survivor Malala Yousafzai became the youngest Nobel winner ever as she and Kailash Satyarthi of India won the Nobel Peace Prize on Friday for working to protect...
View ArticlePHOTOS: Martin Luther King Jr. wins Nobel Peace Prize, Oct 14, 1964
Civil rights leader Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., is awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for his nonviolent resistance to racial prejudice in America. At 35 years of age, the Georgia-born minister was the...
View ArticlePHOTOS: Mozambique Rubbish Pickers
Mozambique now one of Africa’s fastest growing economies, prepares for its fifth democratic election on Wednesday. The recent discovery of some of the world’s largest gas and coal reserves in the...
View ArticlePHOTOS: Mozambique Rubbish Pickers
Mozambique now one of Africa’s fastest growing economies, prepares for its fifth democratic election on Wednesday. The recent discovery of some of the world’s largest gas and coal reserves in the...
View ArticlePHOTOS: Mozambique Rubbish Pickers
Mozambique now one of Africa’s fastest growing economies, prepares for its fifth democratic election on Wednesday. The recent discovery of some of the world’s largest gas and coal reserves in the...
View ArticlePHOTOS: “The Amazon’s Silent Crisis” a Greenpeace’s report
According to Greenpeace’s report, timber trucks carry at night illegally felled trees to sawmills, which then process them and export the wood as if it was from a legal origin to France, Belgium,...
View ArticlePHOTOS: Thousands cheer Vladimir Putin at military parade
Greeted by enthusiastic chants of “Putin! Putin!,” Russian President Vladimir Putin attended a military parade Thursday in Slavic ally Serbia, where he held talks on economic issues, including on the...
View ArticlePHOTOS: Hong Kong pro-democracy protesters clash with police
Pro-democracy protesters clashed with police in the Mong Kok district of Hong Kong on October 18, 2014. Police have begun to take measures to remove the blockades put in place by pro democracy...
View ArticlePHOTOS: Oscar Pistorius sentenced to 5 years in prison
PRETORIA, South Africa (AP) — Oscar Pistorius was taken away in a police van with barred windows Tuesday to start serving a five-year prison sentence for killing girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp. Delivering...
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