SURVIVORS OF NEW MIGRANT TRAGEDY ARRIVE IN MALTA
By STEPHEN CALLEJA and COLLEEN BARRY An officer holds a baby as migrants disembark from a Maltese Navy ship at the Valletta harbor, Malta, Saturday, Oct. 12, 2013. A Maltese…
Accidents and disasters
EASTERN INDIA BRACES FOR IMPACT OF MAJOR CYCLONE
In this Thursday Oct. 10, 2013 photo, fishing boats are pulled off to the shore following a cyclone alert on the Bay of Bengal coast at Puri, Odisha state, India.…
POLICE: GUNMAN WHO FIRED AT US COURTHO– USE DIES
Authorities gather in front of the Federal Building in Wheeling, W.Va, on Wednesday, Oct. 9, 2013. West Virginia State Police say a man who fired shots at a federal courthouse…
HUNGARIAN WINGSUIT FLYER DIES DURING CHINA JUMP
In this Tuesday, Oct. 8, 2013 photo, Hungarian wingsuit flier Viktor Kovats jumps off a mountain at Tianmen Mountain National Forest Park in Zhangjiajie in south China’s Hunan province. Kovats…
AS DUBAI REBOUNDS, HUNGER STRIKE RECALLS THE CRASH
By AYA BATRAWY and BRIAN MURPHY A panoramic advertising billboard is set up by an unfinished building, center, which has been left the same since the 2009 financial crisis in…
SHUTDOWN IMPACT: DEFENSE WORKERS RETURN TO WORK
Protestors hold signs during a during an event with the Democratic Progressive Caucus and furloughed federal employees on Capitol Hill in Washington, Friday, Oct. 4, 2013, as the budget battle…
EGYPT SAYS ATTACK IN SINAI WAS SUICIDE BOMBER
By SARAH EL DEEB Smoke rises from a security headquarters building in the southern Sinai town of el-Tor, Egypt, after a car bombing there on Monday, Oct. 7, 2013. Monday’s…
DIVERS RECOVER 17 MORE BODIES, DEATH TOLL HITS 211
By ANDREA ROSA Migrants wait to board a ferry boat from the port of Lampedusa, for Sicily, southern Italy, where they will be sent to other temporary camps based on…