‘DON’T BE AFRAID’: FINAL WORDS FROM SEAMUS HEANEY
By SHAWN POGATCHNIK FILE – Sunday, Dec. 10, 1995 photo from files showing Irish poet Seamus Heaney, center, displaying his Nobel literature prize medal, surrounded by his family, from left:…
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GERMANY TRIES 92-YEAR-OLD FOR NAZI WAR CRIME
By DANIEL NIEMANN and DAVID RISING Siert Bruins , 92-year-old former member of the Nazi Waffen SS, sits in the courtroom of the court in Hagen, Germany, Monday, Sept. 2,…
LAVA LAMPS: 50 YEARS OLD AND STILL GROOVY
In this Monday, Aug. 19, 2013, Anthony Voss, lava lamp expert and collector, poses for the photographer in a shop in London with some of the lava lamps in his…
MERKEL, RIVAL FACE OFF IN GERMAN ELECTION DEBATE
A man on a bicycle passes election posters, showing the two top candidates for next German chancellor at a street in Duisburg, western Germany, Thursday, Aug. 29, 2013. Peer Steinbrueck…
DAVID FROST, KNOWN FOR NIXON INTERVIEW, DIES
By SYLVIA HUI File – Former US President Richard M. Nixon, right, with broadcaster David Frost in California in this 1977 file photo. Sir David Frost has died at the…
POPE ANNOUNCES DAY OF FASTING FOR PEACE FOR SYRIA
By FRANCES D’EMILIO Pope Francis waves to faithful after reciting the Angelus prayer from his studio window overlooking St.Peter’s Square at the Vatican, Sunday, Sept. 1, 2013. Francis is asking…
A LOOK AT SYRIA DEVELOPMENTS AROUND THE WORLD
By The Associated Press A US Air Force plane takes off from the Incirlik airbase, southern Turkey, Sunday, Sept. 1, 2013. U.S. President Barack Obama said he has decided that…
A LOOK AT SYRIA DEVELOPMENTS AROUND THE WORLD
By The Associated Press The convoy of U.N. experts cross into Lebanon at the Lebanese border crossing point of Masnaa, eastern Bekaa valley, Lebanon, Saturday, Aug. 31, 2013. The U.N.…