Japan hospital fire kills 10, injures 8

Blaze apparently started while patients were sleeping, police say; 8 of the dead were patients, the other 2 staffers

• Oct 11, 2013

Malala Yousafzai, survivor of Taliban, visits U.S.

Pakistani girl who was the target of a Taliban assassination attempt told a U.S. audience on she one day hopes to one day become her country's prime minister

• Oct 10, 2013

Freeze of aid whips up anti-U.S. sentiment in Egypt

Move by the U.S. to to withhold millions of dollars in mostly military aid to Egypt fueling anti-U.S. sentiment that Washington supports Morsi

• Oct 10, 2013

Vatican recalls papal medals after Jesus' name misspelled

Vatican withdraws more than 6,000 medals commemorating Francis' papacy after the word "Jesus" was misspelled as "Lesus"

• Oct 10, 2013

Education comes first for Malala's friends targeted by Taliban

Two of Malala Yousafzai's schoolmates now attend school in U.K., vow to return to Pakistan to help educate girls

• Oct 10, 2013

Malala Yousafzai: Activist for education

The 16-year-old activist from Pakistan has had an extraordinary year since recovering from an assassination attempt by the Taliban

• Oct 10, 2013
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Snowden meets with 4 U.S. whistleblowers in Moscow

Americans say former NSA analyst expressed no regrets about leaking highly classified info; Snowden's father arrives in Moscow

• Oct 10, 2013

Humans "skewered" at vegetarian festival

Festival participants perform acts of body piercing as a means of shifting evil spirits from individuals onto themselves

• Oct 10, 2013
• 15 photos

Libyan PM Ali Zeidan briefly held by gunmen in Tripoli

Abduction highlights power of local militias in country still trying to establish a central government in Qaddafi's wake

• Oct 10, 2013

Inspectors 3 sites into Syria chemical weapons mission

U.N.-mandated team of experts starting with easier-to-access locations under gov't control in race to destroy deadly toxins

• Oct 10, 2013

Alice Munro wins Nobel Prize in literature

82-year-old master of the contemporary short story has been referred to as Canada's Chekhov

• Oct 10, 2013

Azerbaijan declares election winner day before voting

Election commission apologizes for gaffe blamed on bad software, then says President Ilham Aliyev won real vote in landslide

• Oct 10, 2013

Secrecy envelopes Argentine President Fernandez's recovery

Doctors who removed blood clot from brain of Argentina's president say she's improving "without complications"

• Oct 9, 2013

Denied help, woman in Mexico gives birth on lawn

Indigenous woman gives birth outside medical clinic after nurse tells her she was only 8 months pregnant and "still not ready to deliver"

• Oct 9, 2013

U.S. officially halts millions in military aid to Egypt

Certain military systems and cash will no longer flow to Egypt, but health and educational assistance will remain, says U.S. State Department

• Oct 9, 2013

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