ART HEIST TRIAL HELD UP OVER LAWYER’S SNEAKERS
Lawyer Catalin Dancu stands in court in Bucharest wearing his sneakers Tuesday Sept 10 2013. A judge fined Dancu 5,000 lei ($1482 ) Tuesday for flouting dress regulations and for…
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TRIAL STARTS FOR KENYA DEPUTY PRESIDENT RUTO
By MIKE CORDER Kenya’s Deputy President William Ruto, right, awaits the start of his trial in the courtroom of the International Criminal Court (ICC) in The Hague, Netherlands, Tuesday, Sept.…
GREEK HIGH SCHOOL TEACHERS TO STRIKE OVER JOB CUTS
By DEREK GATOPOULOS University administrative staff members chant slogans outside the Administrative Reform ministry in central Athens against austerity measures that threaten their jobs, on Tuesday, Sept. 10, 2013. The…
LARGEST FERRIS WHEEL NEARS COMPLETION IN LAS VEGAS
By HANNAH DREIER FILE – In a Tuesday, July 30, 2013 file photo, the world’s tallest observation wheel, know as the High Roller is seen behind David Codiga, executive project…
RUSSIA TO PUSH SYRIA TO SURRENDER CHEMICAL WEAPONS
By VLADIMIR ISACHENKOV Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov welcomes his Syrian counterpart Walid al-Moallem, left, prior to talks in Moscow on Monday, Sept. 9, 2013. (AP Photo/Ivan Sekretarev) MOSCOW (AP)…
ASSAD: ‘EXPECT EVERYTHING’ IN RESPONSE TO ATTACK
By PHILIP ELLIOTT In this frame grab from video taken Sunday, Sept. 8, 2013, and provided by “CBS This Morning,” Syrian President Bashar Assad responds to a question from journalist…
MOSCOW VOTES IN PIVOTAL MAYORAL RACE
By LAURA MILLS Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny, with his wife Yulia, center, daughter Daria, and son Zakhar arrive at a polling station in Moscow’s mayoral election in Moscow, Russia,…
CITIES MAKE FINAL PITCHES AHEAD OF 2020 VOTE
By STEPHEN WILSON Turkey’s Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan arrives to attend the Istanbul 2020 bid presentation during the International Olympic Committee session, Saturday, Sept. 7, 2013, in Buenos Aires, Argentina.…