DISGRACED CHINESE POLITICIAN MOUNTS FEISTY DEFENSE
By GILLIAN WONG In this photo released by the Jinan Intermediate People’s Court, Bo Xilai, center, stands on trial at the court in eastern China’s Shandong province on Thursday Aug.…
Political issues
WHO’S WHO IN CHINA’S BO XILAI POLITICAL SCANDAL
By The Associated Press In this March 11, 2012 photo, Bo Xilai, former Chongqing party secretary wipes his glasses during a plenary session of the National People’s Congress at the…
BRADLEY MANNING SAYS HE WANTS TO LIVE AS A WOMAN
By DAVID DISHNEAU and PAULINE JELINEK FILE – In this undated file photo provided by the U.S. Army, Pfc. Bradley Manning poses for a photo wearing a wig and lipstick.…
CIVIL RIGHTS INCLUDES GAYS 50 YEARS AFTER MARCH
By BRETT ZONGKER FILE – In this Aug. 1, 1963 black-and-white photo, Bayard Rustin, leader of the “March on Washington” speaks at the National Headquarters. Months before Martin Luther King…
SYRIAN ACTIVISTS CLAIM DEADLY ‘TOXIC GAS’ ATTACK
By BASSEM MROUE and ZEINA KARAM This citizen journalism image provided by the Local Committee of Arbeen which has been authenticated based on its contents and other AP reporting, shows…
MANNING SENTENCED TO 35 YEARS IN WIKILEAKS CASE
By DAVID DISHNEAU and PAULINE JELINEK Army Pfc. Bradley Manning is escorted into a courthouse in Fort Meade, Md., Wednesday, Aug. 21, 2013, before a sentencing hearing in his court…
ACTIVISTS SCUFFLE WITH SWEDISH POLICE OVER MINING
JOKKMOKK, Sweden (AP) — Police have removed some 50 screaming and singing activists who were blocking a road in northern Sweden to protest a British company’s plans to build an…
AUTHORITIES: MEN SMUGGLED GUNS TO NYC ON B– USES
By TOM HAYS New York Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly looks at some of the guns seized as part of gun smuggling between the Carolinas and New York, Monday, Aug. 19,…