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Pictures of the Year 2010: The world in focus
Earthquakes, volcanoes, floods. Elections, demonstrations, celebrations and mourning. Pictures that amaze, others that amuse. Browse through this gallery of memorable images from around the world, and...
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Birth of a nation: Southern Sudanese vote on independence
Men and women walked to election stations in the middle of the night Sunday to create a new nation: Southern Sudan. Some broke out into spontaneous song in the long lines. And a veteran of Sudan’s...
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Mubarak resigns, hands power to military
CAIRO — Egypt’s Hosni Mubarak resigned as president and handed control to the military on Friday after 29 years in power, bowing to a historic 18-day wave of pro-democracy demonstrations by hundreds of...
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Libya in the Arab Spring: Gadhafi’s last stand, or new quaqmire for Allies?
In a statement from Tripoli, the African Union says Moammar Gadhafi has assured the presidents of five African countries that he supports their efforts to bring about a cease-fire. The A.U. committee...
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Famine in Somalia worsens; refugee camps are bursting; cholera is latest threat
More than 29,000 children under the age of 5 have died in the last 90 days. The U.N. says another 640,000 Somali children are acutely malnourished, and the famine in southern Somalia is likely to...
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Islamist leader Mohammed Morsi declared Egypt’s president
The Muslim Brotherhood’s Mohammed Morsi was declared the winner of Egypt’s first free presidential election Sunday, and he proclaimed himself a leader “for all Egyptians,” although he faces a struggle...
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Anti-U.S. protests continue to rage on
Anti-American protests have erupted in the Middle East over a crudely made film mocking the prophet Muhammad, resulting in violent embassy protests around the Middle East, fallout in the U.S....
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Egypt Seethes Under Curfew After Hundreds Killed
Security forces struggled to clamp a lid on Egypt on Thursday after hundreds of people were killed when authorities forcibly broke up camps of supporters protesting the ouster of Islamist President...
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Kenya says it ‘defeated’ mall militants, death toll 67
Kenya’s president said his forces had “defeated” Islamists from Somalia’s al Shabaab on Tuesday, shooting dead five and capturing 11 others suspected of killing 67 people during a four-day siege at a...
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Italy mourns 300 migrants killed in Lampedusa shipwreck
With the death toll from the worst disaster of its kind in the Mediterranean expected to exceed 300, survivors recounted the nightmarish journeys they had to endure to reach the tiny island of...
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Rare “hybrid” solar eclipse is last of 2013
The last solar eclipse of the year was seen on Sunday, in parts of Africa, the United States and Europe. Described as a hybrid eclipse — it began as an annular eclipse and then became a total eclipse...
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World celebrates the life, mourns the death of Nelson Mandela
People around the world are celebrating the life, and mourning the death, of Nelson Mandela; speaking out about the legacy of the former South African president and sharing how they drew inspiration...
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Obama hails Mandela as “last great liberator”
Amid cheers and song for the prisoner who became peacemaker, President Barack Obama energized tens of thousands of spectators and nearly 100 visiting heads of state Tuesday with a plea for the world...
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