Tag: World

India launches index to measure air quality

Muneeza Naqvi · October 17, 2014 2:02 pm

Protesters display placards at a rally at the U.S. Embassy in Manila to reiterate their demand to take custody of a U.S. Marine who is a suspect in the killing of a Filipino transgender Friday, Oct. 17, 2014 in the Philippines. Police filed a murder complaint two days ago against U.S. Marine Pfc. Joseph Scott Pemberton accused of killing Jennifer Laude, whose former name was Jeffrey. The killing becomes an emotional case and is expected to test the country's military ties with the United States. (AP Photo/Bullit Marquez)

Philippines subpoenas US Marine murder suspect

Washington Examiner · October 17, 2014 1:58 pm

Egypt's Amr Gamal, left, scores his side's opening goal against Botswana during their African Cup of Nations group G qualifying soccer match at Cairo International Stadium in Cairo, Egypt, Wednesday, Oct. 15, 2014. Egypt won 2-0. (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar)

South Africa reluctant to host 2015 African Cup

Washington Examiner · October 17, 2014 1:53 pm

This June 2013 photo shows No. 1, right, and No. 2 at Sendai nuclear power station in Sendai, Kagoshima prefecture, southwestern Japan. A prominent volcanologist disputed Japanese regulators' conclusion that two nuclear reactors were safe from a volcanic eruption in the next few decades, saying Friday, Oct. 17, 2014 that such a prediction was impossible. A cauldron eruption at one of several volcanos surrounding the Sendai nuclear power plant could not only hit the reactors but could cause a nationwide disaster, said Toshitsugu Fujii, head of a government-commissioned panel on volcanic eruption prediction. (AP Photo/Kyodo News) JAPAN OUT, CREDIT MANDATORY

Japan reactor near active volcanos called unsafe

Mari Yamaguchi · October 17, 2014 1:41 pm

Pig’s head, hate slogans at Athens Muslim center

Pig’s head, hate slogans at Athens Muslim center

Washington Examiner · October 17, 2014 1:19 pm

Oscar Pistorius escorted by police officers leaves the high court in Pretoria, South Africa, Friday, Oct. 17, 2014. Following the testimony hearing, Judge Thokozile Masipa is expected to announce Pistorius' sentence on Tuesday after she found him guilty last month of culpable homicide for negligently killing Steenkamp, but acquitted him of murder. (AP Photo/Themba Hadebe)

Prosecutor wants 10 years in prison for Pistorius

LYNSEY CHUTELGERALD IMRAY · October 17, 2014 1:09 pm

Writers object after UK court bans abuse memoir

Writers object after UK court bans abuse memoir

Jill Lawless · October 17, 2014 12:57 pm

Emergency crews stand next to a plane, carrying 163 people, at the Madrid Airport, Spain, Thursday, Oct. 16, 2014. An Air France plane was isolated at Madrid's airport on Thursday because of a suspected Ebola case after a passenger was reported to have a fever and shivers, officials said. The passenger, who had traveled from Lagos, Nigeria, was taken by ambulance to an unspecified hospital in Madrid but the rest of the passengers were allowed to leave the plane as normal, Air France said in a statement. (AP Photo/Antoni Manchado)

4 suspected Ebola cases in Spain test negative

Washington Examiner · October 17, 2014 12:25 pm

An Indian squatter smokes as others sleep on rented cots at a public park near Jama Masjid, or the Grand Mosque, in New Delhi, India, Friday, Oct. 17, 2014. The International Day for the Eradication of Poverty is observed on Oct. 17 and is designated to promote awareness of the need to eradicate poverty and destitution in the world. (AP Photo/Altaf Qadri)

Image of Asia: A day for eradicating poverty

The Associated Press · October 17, 2014 12:24 pm

In this photo taken Sept. 20, 2014, Chinese artist Li Dapeng talks to reporters in front of one of his works depicting a typical Chinese scene featuring figures with grotesque pig heads at his studio in the Songzhuang art district in eastern Beijing, China. Artists in Songzhuang have long enjoyed rare creative freedoms by keeping their art and conversation mostly away from the public, but police arrested 13 people who work or live in the district in October after they posted online pictures and commentary support pro-democracy demonstrators in Hong Kong.(AP Photo/Jack Chang)

Chinese art colony’s free-speech illusion shatters

Jack Chang · October 17, 2014 11:56 am

In this Oct. 14, 2014, photo, a Lebanese man, center, walks between graves at the overcrowded Bashoura cemetery for Muslim Sunnis in Beirut, Lebanon. The congested city of more than one million is cramped with cemeteries wedged into residential areas, increasingly forcing families to bury several members of the same family in one grave. Available land plots are extremely scarce and what is left is being used by developers to build luxury officers towers and apartments. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla)

Israel raises the dead with skyward cemetery

Aron Heller · October 17, 2014 11:29 am

In this Oct. 8, 2014 photo, a medical worker from the Infection Prevention and Control unit wearing full protective equipment prepares to enter an isolation tent housing a man being quarantined after coming into contact in Uganda with a carrier of the Marburg Virus, a hemorrhagic fever from the same family as Ebola, at the Kenyatta National Hospital in Nairobi, Kenya. Health officials battling the Ebola outbreak that has killed more than 4,500 people in West Africa have managed to limit its spread on the continent to five countries, with Kenya so far escaping the virus. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis)

Africa stems Ebola via border closings, luck

TOM ODULALYNSEY CHUTEL · October 17, 2014 11:15 am