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In this photo taken Monday, Oct. 13, 2014, customers walk past portraits of Mao Zedong displayed at a bookstore in Beijing. Authorities in China have ordered books by Chinese-American scholar Yu Ying-shih and several others to be removed from sale, as Beijing expresses its displeasure with writers showing support for pro-democracy movements in Hong Kong and elsewhere, bookstores and publishers said. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan)

China bans books by pro-Hong Kong protest author

Didi Tang · October 14, 2014 11:57 am

FILE - In this Monday, May 28, 2012 file photo, former British Prime Minister Tony Blair leaves the High Court in London after he gave evidence to the Leveson media inquiry. Prosecutors on Tuesday, Oct. 14, 2014 said a man accused of plotting a terrorist attack in Britain had the address of former Prime Minister Tony Blair in his car. Erol Incedal is accused of preparing a terrorist act and possessing bomb-making instructions. (AP Photo/Alastair Grant, File)

Prosecutor: Terror suspect had Tony Blair address

Jill Lawless · October 14, 2014 11:50 am

Catalonia's regional president Artur Mas bites his lips during a press conference at the Generalitat Palace in Barcelona, Spain, Tuesday, Oct. 14, 2014. Mas called a press conference amid speculation he will discuss the future of an independence referendum the central government in Madrid says would be illegal. Plans for the Spain's powerful northeastern region of Catalonia to hold a secession referendum Nov. 9 look decidedly uncertain as a pro-vote party says Mas told them the poll cannot go ahead. (AP Photo/Manu Fernandez)

Spain’s Catalonia calls off independence vote

JOSEPH WILSONCIARAN GILES · October 14, 2014 11:35 am

Yemen officials: Shiite rebels take control of Red Sea city, southern province in latest blitz

Yemen officials: Shiite rebels take control of Red Sea city, southern province in latest blitz

Washington Examiner · October 14, 2014 9:37 am

Report: Iran says Saudi comments may damage ties

Nasser Karimi · October 14, 2014 8:55 am

Roadside bomb kills 2 civilians in Afghanistan

Washington Examiner · October 14, 2014 8:53 am

German hospital: UN worker dies of Ebola

German hospital: UN worker dies of Ebola

Washington Examiner · October 14, 2014 8:35 am

Cloud seeding new role for ex-Flying Tiger base

Cloud seeding new role for ex-Flying Tiger base

Washington Examiner · October 14, 2014 5:39 am

An Indian fisherman walks near the anchored fishing boats as strong winds blow a day after a powerful cyclone pounded the Bay of Bengal coast in Gopalpur, Orissa, about 285 kilometers (178 miles) north east of Visakhapatnam, India, Monday, Oct. 13, 2014. Cyclone Hudhud that slammed into India's eastern seaboard weakened as it moved inland Monday. (AP Photo/Biswaranjan Rout)

Workers clear debris after Indian cyclone kills 24

Mohammed Shafeeq · October 14, 2014 4:24 am

In this Monday, Oct. 6, 2014 photo, Vijai Ramlackhan holds a container of pesticide similar to the type his 17-year-old son used to commit suicide on their farm in the Berbice region of Guyana, a country that the World Health Organization says has the highest rate of suicide in the world. (AP Photo/Bert Wilkinson)

Sleepy Guyana wrestles with high rate of suicides

BERT WILKINSONBEN FOX · October 14, 2014 4:04 am

In this Aug. 26, 2014 photo, 4-year-old patient Saul Valverde rides lying on the back of Andariego, a 19-year-old veteran horse retired from "charreria," the Mexican version of a rodeo, at a corral in southern Mexico City. Andariego now works as a therapy horse, helping children with special needs. Horses can live another 20 years after their rodeo days. The lucky ones find second careers in breeding or as therapy horses. (AP Photo/Marco Ugarte)

Mexico celebrates its charro horse tradition

Washington Examiner · October 14, 2014 4:01 am

ADDS WHERE KIM APPEARED - A man watches a TV news program at the Seoul Railway Station in Seoul, South Korea, Tuesday, Oct. 14, 2014, showing North Korean leader Kim Jong Un using a cane, reportedly during his first public appearance in five weeks in Pyongyang, North Korea. Kim has made his first public appearance in five weeks, smiling broadly and supporting himself with a cane while touring the newly built Wisong Scientists Residential District and another new institute in Pyongyang, state media reported Tuesday, ending an absence that drove a frenzy of global speculation that something was amiss with the country's most powerful person. (AP Photo/Lee Jin-man)

North Korean leader reappears in public with cane

Foster Klug · October 14, 2014 3:57 am