PHOTOS: 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: ‘The Amazon’s Silent Crisis,’ a Greenpeace 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: 16 killed in accident at South Korean concert
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — Sixteen people watching an outdoor pop concert in South Korea fell 20 meters to their deaths Friday when a ventilation grate they were standing on collapsed, officials said.
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...
View ArticlePHOTOS: soldier shot at war memorial in Ottawa, Canada
OTTAWA, Ontario (AP) — A gunman shot a Canadian soldier standing guard at the National War Memorial in Ottawa on Wednesday, police said. Witnesses said the gunman entered Parliament and shots rang out.
View ArticlePHOTOS: Indian widows celebrate the Hindu festival Diwali
The women, who chanted as they walked through the streets of Vrindavan to mark the Hindu festival of Diwali, are widows who have left or been abandoned by their families. Until recently, they were kept...
View ArticlePHOTOS: North Korean road trip
In June 2014, The Associated Press was granted permission to embark on a weeklong road trip across North Korea to the country’s spiritual summit Mount Paektu. The trip was on North Korea’s terms. An AP...
View ArticlePHOTOS: Funeral for Canadian soldier Nathan Cirillo
HAMILTON, Ontario (AP) — Prime Minister Stephen Harper offered emotional praise, October 28, 2014 at the funeral of a soldier shot dead by a gunman who then stormed Canada’s seat of government last...
View ArticlePHOTOS: Violent protest in Ouagadougou
Burkina Faso (AP) — A spokesman says the president of Burkina Faso has declared a state of emergency following violent protests in the capital. Communications director Ibrahim Sakande made the...
View ArticlePHOTOS: Ashura a day of mourning for Shi’a Islam
Ashura mourns the death of Imam Hussein, a grandson of the Prophet Mohammed, who was killed by armies of the Yazid near Karbala in 680 AD.
View ArticlePHOTOS: Leonhardi pilgrimage in Bad Toelz, southern Germany
A cart overturned in the Leonhardi pilgrimage. The procession honors St. Leonhard, the patron saint of the highland farmers for horses and livestock, in a tradition going back at least to the 15th...
View ArticlePHOTOS: Labor protests turn violent in Brussels, Belgium
BRUSSELS (AP) — One of Belgium’s biggest postwar labor demonstrations brought about 100,000 workers to the capital on Thursday to protest government free-market reforms and austerity measures that they...
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