INDIAN POLITICAL BRAWLING SHOWS RAPE A VOTER ISSUE
By KATY DAIGLE FILE – In this Friday, Jan. 3, 2014 file photo, activists of Indian National Congress with black bands around their mouths block traffic during a protest against…
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US ‘LOST BOY’ AMONG MANY FLEEING S SUDAN VIOLENCE
By BEN CURTIS In this photo taken Thursday, Jan. 2, 2014, Phillip Madol, 33, left, one of the thousands who fled the recent fighting between government and rebel forces in…
NEGLECTED ELDERLY AUSTRALIAN ENDURES BRUTAL END
By KRISTEN GELINEAU FILE – In this Oct. 8, 2013 file photo, stone steps lead to the front door of the home of Marguerite Thoresen in Brisbane, Australia. Thoresen’s mother,…
MAN THROWS 3-YEAR-OLD SON, HIMSELF OFF NYC ROOF
By VERENA DOBNIK In this Sunday, Dec. 22, 2013 photo, New York Police Department officers police walk in front of a high-rise apartment building where they said a 35-year-old man…
UN OKS MILITARY ACTION IN CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC
By EDITH M. LEDERER Christian children from the village of Bouebou, some 40 kms (30 miles) North of Bangui, Central African Republic, are packed in the trunk of a taxi…
DILIGENT ASIAN STUDENTS DOMINATE GLOBAL EXAM
By DIDI TANG FILE – In this Nov. 7, 2013 file photo, South Korean students cheer their seniors’ success in the Scholastic Aptitude Test in front of the main gate…
ISRAEL COURT FINES WOMAN OVER NOT CIRCUMCISING SON
By DANIEL ESTRIN Israelis protest in support of a woman who refuses to have her son circumcised, in Tel Aviv, Israel, Thursday, Nov. 28, 2013. An Israeli rabbinic court is…
Showdown brews over Sri Lankan civil war inquiry
By KATY DAIGLE British Prime Minister David Cameron, center, talks with other leaders during a retreat at the Commonwealth Heads of Government meeting, in Colombo, Sri Lanka , Saturday, Nov.…