An Egyptian court has recommended the death sentence for the leader of the now-banned Muslim Brotherhood and 682 supporters, state television said on Monday. The same court also handed down a final capital punishment ruling for 37 others. Charges in both cases, which were tried by the same judge, are related to violent riots in the central Egyptian city of Minya in August, including the murder of a police officer. […]
Here’s the best way to understand the new India in 30 seconds. Watch this commercial—or better yet, if you don’t understand Hindi, read on.A smarmy-looking politician addresses a rural gathering, promising to give the people access to water. His speech is interrupted by a boyish young man, a villager, who pulls out his smartphone and plays a YouTube video for all to see: it’s the same politician, making the same […]
In Pic :Mua Kuvar Tiwari lies on a wooden cot in an incense-filled room at a home for the dying in the holy city of Varanasi. Her family brought her here to attain salvation for her soul. Varanasi, India A10-hour journey on Indian roads can be difficult and this one, fueled by faith, was more so. Dinesh Chandra Mishra packed moth-eaten woolen blankets for the trip along with muslin and […]
Bwindi Impenetrable National Park, Uganda (CNN) — They are the world’s largest primates and yet the constant threat of poaching, deforestation and human diseases means that soon the world’s mountain gorillas could be completely wiped out.Living in the dense forests of Central Africa — in the Virunga Mountains spanning Rwanda, Uganda and the Democratic Republic of Congo and the Bwindi Impenetrable National Park in Uganda — the critically endangered gorillas […]
The heavily armed militants stormed the girl’s dormitory in the middle of the night, herding more than 100 students on to vehicles and burning down nearby buildings as they made their escape. That was a week ago Monday. Of the 129 students abducted from the Government Girls Secondary School from the Nigerian town of Chibok, 77 are still missing. No one knows where they are. And surprising still, no one’s […]
Mastodons — elephant-like beasts that lumbered across North America more than 10,000 years ago — are long extinct, but apparently it wasn’t tooth decay that did them in. A 9-year-old Michigan boy stumbled across something — literally — that, it turns out, is a mastodon tooth. “I was walking down at the creek last summer. I felt something that I stepped on so I picked it up and everybody in […]
Japanese cuisine is world famous for its raw fish. But this Chinese man has taken the ancient rivalry between his nation and its island neighbour to ridiculous extremes. The Jaws impressionist snapped up the tiddler during a fish-catching contest in Taijang County in China’s Guizhou province. As rivals struggled to keep hold of their slippery catches, he proved that sometimes a bit of lateral thinking can be the difference between […]
A South Korean captain, standing in handcuffs before reporters, defended his order to delay the evacuation of his sinking ferry, CNN affiliate YTN reported early Saturday. The news of Lee Joon Seok’s arrest in connection with the sinking that left at least 29 people dead and more than 270 missing came as divers made their way to the third deck inside the wreckage where they found three bodies, according to […]
In this Oct. 27, 2011 file photo, the last light of the day sets on Mount Everest as it rises behind Mount Nuptse as seen from Tengboche, in the Himalaya’s Khumbu region, Nepal. (AP Photo/Kevin Frayer, File) KATMANDU, Nepal — An avalanche swept down a climbing route on Mount Everest early Friday, killing at least 12 Nepalese guides and leaving three missing in the deadliest disaster on the world’s highest […]
Canada is sending six CF-18 fighter jets to eastern Europe as part of a NATO operation in response to the ongoing crisis in Ukraine. Prime Minister Stephen Harper announced the decision in Ottawa Thursday. He said the jets are being sent “in response to a NATO request” as it expands its operations in eastern Europe. “Obviously this in response to the situation that’s developing there,” Harper told reporters, particularly […]
