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Men ride a motor cycle taxi past a poster of late author Chinua Achebe, in Awka, Nigeria, Wednesday, May 22, 2013. People gathered Wednesday to celebrate the life of author Chinua Achebe, who died in March at the age of 82. His family plans to bury the literary icon Thursday in his home village of Ogidi. (AP Photo/Sunday Alamba)

Writer Chinua Achebe honored in Nigeria funeral

Writer Chinua Achebe shunned Nigeria's corrupt politicians and twice turned down national honors, never fearing to criticize those he felt ruined his country. On Thursday, however, the lawmakers and the country's elite came to praise him. Hundreds attended Achebe's funeral among the rolling hills of his eastern Nigeria home, a ...

  • Updated: 6:51 p.m. Thursday, May 23, 2013
Police officers lay down floral tributes handed to them by members of the public at the scene of a terror attack in Woolwich, southeast London, Thursday, May 23, 2013. The British government’s emergency committee met Thursday after two attackers killed a man in a daylight attack in London that raised fears terrorism had returned to the capital. (AP Photo/Sang Tan)

Muslim hard-liners ID suspect in London attack

A man seen with bloody hands wielding a butcher knife after the killing of a British soldier on the streets of London was described as a convert to Islam who took part in demonstrations with a banned radical group, two Muslim hard-liners said Thursday. Police raided houses in connection with ...

  • Updated: 5:56 p.m. Thursday, May 23, 2013
China's Margaret Chan, Director-General of the World Health Organization, WHO, delivers a speech during the 66th World Health Assembly at the European headquarters of the United Nations in Geneva, Switzerland, Monday, May 20, 2013. (AP Photo/Keystone, Jean-Christophe Bott)

WHO: Scientific red tape mars efforts vs. virus

International efforts to combat a new pneumonia-like virus that has now killed 22 people are being slowed by unclear rules and competition for the potentially profitable rights to disease samples, the head of the World Health Organization warned Thursday. Dr. Margaret Chan, in a blunt warning to the U.N. agency's ...

  • Updated: 5:44 p.m. Thursday, May 23, 2013
Two Suspects in Murder Known to London Police

Two Suspects in Murder Known to London Police

The murder of a British soldier on the streets of London appears to be the work of Islamic radicals. Police arrest two more suspects. British Prime Minister says the attack will "bring us together."

  • 5:10 p.m. Thursday, May 23, 2013
In this undated image released Thursday May 23, 2013, by the British Ministry of Defence, showing Lee Rigby known as ‘Riggers’ to his friends, who is identified by the MOD as the serving member of the armed forces who was attacked and killed by two men in the Woolwich area of London on Wednesday. The Ministry web site included the statement "It is with great sadness that the Ministry of Defence must announce that the soldier killed in yesterday's incident in Woolwich, South East London, is believed to be Drummer Lee Rigby of 2nd Battalion The Royal Regiment of Fusiliers." (AP Photo / MOD)

Military calls UK attack victim a model soldier

The soldier brutally murdered in a suspected terrorist attack in London was a popular 25-year-old ceremonial military drummer and machine gunner, a father and a passionate fan of the Manchester United soccer team, the British military said Thursday. Lee Rigby, of 2nd Battalion The Royal Regiment of Fusiliers, who had ...

  • Updated: 4:42 p.m. Thursday, May 23, 2013
In this Friday, May 20, 2013 photo, Cuban dissidents Ladies in White, from left, Laura Labrada Pollan, Berta Soler, and Belkis Cantillo acknowledge the guests at the Freedom Tower in Miami. MDC President Dr. Eduardo J. Padron, far left, presented Soler with MDC’s Presidential Medal in homage to all the Ladies in White engraved, "Guardians of Freedom." Ladies in White is a group of women that began marching peacefully after the arrests of their sons and husbands in a 2003 crackdown on dissidents. They have faced detention and violence from pro-government mobs. (AP Photo/Alan Diaz)

Dissidents find 'Cuba outside Cuba' in Miami

When Cuban hunger striker Guillermo Farinas arrived in Miami, he said he was prepared to face rejection from radical members of the Cuban-American community who do not believe in pacific opposition. The reaction has been far different. When he went to the Versailles restaurant, a traditional gathering spot for older ...

  • Updated: 3:50 p.m. Thursday, May 23, 2013
An ultra-Orthodox Jewish man walks past a sign depicting the Dome of the Rock Mosque, in Jerusalem, Sunday, May 19, 2013. (AP Photo/Sebastian Scheiner)

Israel to discuss military draft reform proposal

An official Israeli committee on Thursday handed the government its proposal for ending a contentious system that grants Jewish ultra-Orthodox seminary students automatic exemptions from military service, setting the stage for what could become the first major conflict in the new Israeli coalition government. These exemptions have generated widespread resentment ...

  • Updated: 3:38 p.m. Thursday, May 23, 2013
FILE - In this May 21, 2013 file photo, a burnt out car, in the Stockholm suburb of Kista after youths rioted in several different suburbs around Stockholm for a third executive night. Immigrant youth in sleepy suburban communities run amok, hurling rocks at police and torching cars, restaurants and culture centers. It isn't France or Britain, but Sweden _ a Scandinavian bastion of generous social welfare and egalitarian political culture. Though this week's rioting outside Stockholm was triggered by perceived police brutality, observers say that there has been a surge of angst in society as inequality rises on a backdrop of burgeoning immigrant numbers. (AP Photo/Scanipx Sweden, Fredrik Sandberg, File) SWEDEN OUT

Sweden's riots raise questions about inequality

Sweden has long been a bastion of generous social welfare and an egalitarian political culture. So many people were shocked when scores of youths hurled rocks at police and set cars ablaze during rioting in several largely immigrant areas near Stockholm this week. Few dispute that the violence was probably ...

  • Updated: 3:33 p.m. Thursday, May 23, 2013

Appellate court: Berlusconi ran illegal scheme

Former Italian Premier Silvio Berlusconi on Thursday called "surreal" the judicial reasoning behind an appellate court's decision to uphold his guilty verdict and four-year jail term in a tax fraud case. In a nearly 200-page document detailing its reasoning behind the May 8 decision, the court said, "There is conclusive ...

  • Updated: 3:33 p.m. Thursday, May 23, 2013
Police and forensic officers near the scene of an apparent attack which has left one man confirmed dead and two people injured near Woolwich barracks in London Wednesday, May, 22, 2013. British officials said one person has died and at least two people have been wounded in an attack in southeast London. Scotland Yard said officers responded to reports of an assault Wednesday afternoon in the London neighbourhood of Woolwich. London Ambulance service said one man was found dead at the scene and two other men were taken to the hospital, with one in serious condition.(AP Photo/Alastair Grant)

Q&A: What is known about London attack

A look at the key known facts about attack in south London in which two men killed a British soldier near military barracks Wednesday. Q: What happened? A: Two men with butcher knives, a machete and a meat cleaver attacked and killed a soldier near military barracks in the south ...

  • Updated: 3:24 p.m. Thursday, May 23, 2013
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