May 23, 2013
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Panetta sends message to China on Vietnam visit
CAM RANH BAY, Vietnam — U.S. Defense Secretary Leon Panetta used a visit Sunday to Vietnam to make clear Washington’s intent to aid allies in the Asia-Pacific region develop and enforce maritime ri...
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Nigerian airplane crashes, killing all 153 onboard
by JON GAMBRELL Associated Press LAGOS, Nigeria — A commercial airliner crashed into a densely populated neighborhood in Nigeria’s largest city on Sunday, killing all 153 people on board and ...
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Pope looks forward to families meeting in Philadelphia in 2015
MILAN — Pope Benedict XVI says the next World Meeting of Families will be held in 2015 in Philadelphia. Benedict announced the venue during a Sunday Mass in Milan celebrating the seventh such ga...
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Associated Press Phan Thi Kim Phuc embraces Associated Press staff photographer Nick Ut during a reunion on Aug. 17, 1989, in Havana, Cuba.
Vietnam War ‘Napalm girl’ photo turns 40
TRANG BANG, Vietnam — In the picture, the girl will always be 9 years old and wailing “Too hot! Too hot!” as she runs down the road away from her burning Vietnamese village. She will always be n...
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Suu Kyi to visit Myanmar refugees in Thailand
MAE SOT, Thailand — Aung San Suu Kyi was set to turn her attention to Myanmar’s long-standing refugee crisis Saturday with a visit to a sprawling camp on Thailand’s border, where she would get her ...
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Associated Press This is the interior of the Games Terminal for the Olympics at Heathrow Airport on May 25 in London. The project will cost $31 million, process 37,000 bags and deal with 10,000 athletes and officials. But don't blink: At the end of the Olympics it will disappear.
Now you see it: Temporary terminal for ’12 Olympics
LONDON — The project will cost $31 million, process 37,000 bags and deal with 10,000 or so athletes. But don’t blink, because you might miss Heathrow’s Games Terminal: After three days, it will dis...
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Associated Press Palestinian workers destroy watermelons grown in Jewish settlements in May 2010 near the West Bank city of Jenin.
Made in Israel? Not a simple question today
JERUSALEM — For decades, Israel has marketed an array of cosmetics and food products manufactured in the occupied West Bank as “Made in Israel,” blurring their true origins in Jewish settlements op...
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Mubarak receives life sentence
CAIRO — Hosni Mubarak was sentenced to life in prison Saturday for failing to stop the killing of protesters during the uprising that ousted him, offering his opponents a measure of justice. But he...
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Associated Press Britain's Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip (right) arrive for the Epsom Derby on Saturday at Epsom racecourse, England, at the start of a four-day Diamond Jubilee celebration to mark the 60th anniversary of Elizabeth's accession to the throne.
Queen spends day at races
LONDON — It was a royal day at the races, as Queen Elizabeth II watched a horse with the courtly name of Camelot win the Epsom Derby on Saturday — the kickoff to a four-day celebration of the Briti...
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Panetta: No China threat from US military in Asia
SINGAPORE — Secretary Leon Panetta sent a message Saturday that America’s new military focus on the Asia-Pacific is not intended to raise tensions in the region or threaten Beijing. The Pentagon...
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