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…
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UN FINDS SYSTEMATIC DISAPPEARANCES IN SYRIA
By JOHN HEILPRIN and BARBARA SURK In this Tuesday, Dec. 17, 2013 citizen journalism image provided by Aleppo Media Center, AMC, and released Wednesday, Dec. 18, 2013, which has been…
SNOWDEN: NSA’S INDISCRIMINATE SPYING ‘COLLAPSING’
By BRADLEY BROOKS FILE – This June 9, 2013 file photo provided by The Guardian Newspaper in London shows National Security Agency leaker Edward Snowden, in Hong Kong. Snowden wrote…
RUSSIA AMNESTY BILL PASSES FIRST HURDLE
By LAURA MILLS Russian President Vladimir Putin, left, walks to meet his Ukrainian counterpart Viktor Yanukovych during their meeting in Moscow on Tuesday, Dec. 17, 2013. (AP Photo/Alexander Nemenov, pool)…
RYAN PREFERS CONSERVATIVE DEBATE WITHIN ‘FAMILY’
FILE – This Nov. 13, 2013 file photo shows House Budget Committee Chairman Rep. Paul Ryan, R-Wis., left, speaking with Senate Budget Committee Chair Sen. Patty Murray, D-Wash. on Capitol…
SYRIAN REBEL SPOKESMAN DECRIES US, UK AID DECISION
By BASSEM MROUE This image made on a government-organized media tour for local journalists shows people returning to the western town of Nabek, which Syrian troops took full control of…
POPE FRANCIS IS TIME’S PERSON OF THE YEAR
By DAVID BAUDER Pope Francis, Time magazine’s 2013 Person of the Year, is seen an undated photo of the magazine cover provided by Time, Wednesday, Dec. 11, 2013. Time said…
NORTH KOREA PURGES KIM JONG UN’S POWERFUL UNCLE
By FOSTER KLUG FILE – In this Dec. 28, 2011 file photo, North Korea’s leader, Kim Jong Un, front center, is followed by his uncle Jang Song Thaek, vice chairman…