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FILE - This is a June 11, 1963 file photo of Thich Quang Duc, a Buddhist monk, burns himself to death on a Saigon street South Vietnam to protest alleged persecution of Buddhists by the South Vietnamese government. (AP Photo/Malcolm Browne, File)

Turkey's 'standing man' to join ranks of icons?

The image was stark: a silent, solitary figure standing in passive defiance to the Turkish prime minister's demand for protesters to clear Taksim Square in central Istanbul. The challenge by performance artist Erdem Gunduz is catching on with other protesters in Turkey, encouraged by social media into imitating his gesture ...

  • Updated: 10:36 a.m. Wednesday, June 19, 2013
Pope Francis smiles as Alberto di Tullio, from Boiano, near Naples, Italy, sits in the pope's seat of his open-top car at the end of his weekly general audience in St. Peter's Square at the Vatican, Wednesday June 19, 2013. Francis has given a 17-year-old boy with Down's Syndrome the ride of his life — sort of. Francis invited Alberto di Tullio up onto his open-top Mercedes at the end of his general audience Wednesday, letting him spin around on the white chair while tens of thousands of people looked on. (AP Photo/Alessandra Tarantino)

Pope invites Down Syndrome teen on car for a spin

Pope Francis has given a 17-year-old boy with Down Syndrome the ride of his life — sort of. Francis invited Alberto di Tullio up onto his open-top Mercedes at the end of his general audience Wednesday, letting him spin around on the pontiff's white chair while tens of thousands of ...

  • Updated: 9:01 a.m. Wednesday, June 19, 2013

Catholic religious order opens abuse files

A Roman Catholic religious order released an unusually candid report Tuesday outlining how its leaders failed for decades to stop sex abuse in its schools and other ministries. The Capuchin Franciscan Province of St. Joseph, which spans 10 Midwestern states, asked experts in clergy sex abuse to provide a full ...

  • Updated: 6:17 p.m. Tuesday, June 18, 2013
Tourism workers and activists in Luxor protest a newly appointed Islamist governor and block his office Tuesday June 18, 2013. Adel el-Khayat was named to the provincial governor's post Sunday by President Mohammed Morsi, causing outrage because of his links to Gamaa Islamiya, which waged an armed insurgency against the state starting in 1992 and attacked police, Coptic Christians and tourists. Tourism is the lifeblood of Luxor but it has been hit hard by the downturn in foreign visitors since the Arab Spring unleashed political turmoil since 2011. Signs in Arabic read, "The plot you are hatching, we will undo" and "leave terrorist." (AP Photo/Ibrahim Zayed)

Clashes erupt in Egypt over Islamist governors

Clashes erupted between supporters and opponents of Egypt's president and his Muslim Brotherhood Tuesday over his appointment of new Islamist governors, some in areas where opponents are strong. The protests signaled increasing tension in the deeply polarized nation ahead of mass protests demanding the ouster of the president, Mohammed Morsi, ...

  • Updated: 5:24 p.m. Tuesday, June 18, 2013

Kentucky editorial roundup

Recent editorials from Kentucky newspapers: June 16 The Daily News, Bowling Green, Ky., on state must do more to get Internet access to residents: It's almost routine on an annual basis to read that Kentucky once again ranks lowest or near the lowest in a certain category, whether it be ...

  • Updated: 5:05 p.m. Tuesday, June 18, 2013
FILE - In this Friday, May 17, 2013 file photo, An Egyptian activist covers her face with an applications for "Tamarod", Arabic for "rebel", a campaign calling for the ouster of Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi and for early presidential elections, during a protest in Tahrir Square, in Cairo, Egypt. Opponents of Egypt’s Islamist president are convinced that nationwide protests planned for June 30 are their last opportunity to drive him from power. They say they have tapped into widespread public discontent over shortages, broken infrastructure, high prices and lack of security, and can bring that anger into the streets. (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar, File)

Fears of violence as Egypt nears June 30 protests

Massive nationwide protests that Egypt's opposition plans for June 30 are taking on a dangerous edge. Opponents of Islamist President Mohammed Morsi are convinced that this is the best and perhaps the last opportunity to drive him from power. They say they have tapped into widespread public discontent over shortages, ...

  • Updated: 5:04 p.m. Tuesday, June 18, 2013
Civil Rights Groups Sue NYPD Over Muslim Spying

Civil Rights Groups Sue NYPD Over Muslim Spying

The NYPD's widespread spying programs directed at Muslims have undermined free worship by innocent people and should be declared unconstitutional, according to religious leaders and civil rights advocates who filed a federal lawsuit Tuesday...

  • 3:55 p.m. Tuesday, June 18, 2013
A man holds a child, in front of the ERT3 building during a protest . Exactly one year ago, Greece’s conservative prime minister won the mandate to form a coalition government with a daunting brief: Restart punishing reforms, keep the debt-stifled country in the eurozone and end months of political chaos. The latter has proved harder, and Antonis Samaras is now making a last-ditch bid to quell a revolt by key allies over his decision to close the country’s state TV and radio broadcaster ERT, axing nearly 2,700 jobs to meet austerity targets. (AP Photo/Nikolas Giakoumidis)

Greece's public TV still off despite court ruling

State TV channels in Greece remained off-air Tuesday as the political storm over the future of public broadcaster ERT raged on, despite a court ruling that the prime minister's decision to pull the plug was wrong. The threat of a snap general election was averted late Monday after a meeting ...

  • Updated: 4:01 p.m. Tuesday, June 18, 2013
Supporters of a lawsuit challenging the NYPD's Muslim surveillance program, hold signs during a gathering on a plaza in front of New York City Police Department headquarters, Tuesday, June 18, 2013. In a lawsuit filed Tuesday, civil rights lawyers urged a U.S. judge to declare the NYPD's widespread spying programs directed at Muslims to be unconstitutional, order police to stop their surveillance and destroy any records in police files.(AP Photo/Richard Drew)

Civil rights groups sue NYPD over Muslim spying

The New York Police Department's widespread spying programs directed at Muslims have undermined free worship by innocent people and should be declared unconstitutional, religious leaders and civil rights advocates said Tuesday after the filing of a federal lawsuit. "Our mosque should be an open, religious and spiritual sanctuary, but NYPD ...

  • Updated: 2:44 p.m. Tuesday, June 18, 2013

Purdue archives gets Bible handed down among deans

A Bible handed down among Purdue University's deans of students for the past century now has a place in the school's archives. The Dean's Bible was passed on to the archives during a ceremony Monday that marked a tradition that dates back to 1913 with Carolyn Shoemaker, who was Purdue's ...

  • Updated: 2:28 p.m. Tuesday, June 18, 2013
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