EUROPE LAUNCHES SATELLITE TO MAP 1 BILLION STARS
By FRANK JORDANS and DANICA COTO This photo provided by ESA (European Space Agency), taken on Saturday, Dec. 14, 2013, shows the Gaia satellite at the Kourou space base, French…
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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…
COMMISSION: EX-BRAZILIAN PRESIDENT WAS MURDERED
FILE – In this undated 1960 file photo, Brazil President Juscelino Kubitschek poses for a photo in Brasilia, Brazil. The Truth Commission of Sao Paulo’s city council says the car…
MAYOR ORDERED OUSTED IN COLOMBIA’S CAPITAL
FILE – In this Jan. 1, 2012 file photo, Bogota’s Mayor Gustavo Petro delivers his inaugural speech during his swearing-in ceremony in Bogota, Colombia. Inspector-General Alejandro Ordonez has ordered Petro…
VENEZUELAN PRESIDENT FACES FIRST ELECTORAL TEST
By JOSHUA GOODMAN A member of the Venezuelan National Electoral Council tests a voting machine at a polling station in Caracas, Venezuela, Friday, Dec. 6, 2013. Venezuelans will vote in…
CHILEAN STUDENT LEADER BACKS BACHELET’S REFORM
By LUIS ANDRES HENAO Newly elected member of Congress and former student leader Camila Vallejo of the Communist Party attends a campaign rally for presidential candidate Michelle Bachelet in Santiago,…
1 year down: American walking from Africa to Chile
By JASON STRAZIUSO In this photo taken Monday, Jan. 28, 2013 and released by the National Geographic Society on Wednesday, Nov. 20, 2013, journalist Paul Salopek walks across the Afar…
Rio’s Olympic waterways full of trash, sewage
By JENNY BARCHFIELD Small boats sit on the shore of Guanabara Bay in the suburb of Sao Goncalo, across the bay from Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Tuesday, Nov. 19, 2013.…