May 20, 2013 |
On this Day – May 20, 1927 – Charles Lindbergh flies “The Spirit of St. Louis” out of Roosevelt Field in New York. Lindbergh landed his single-engine monoplane at Le Bourget Airfield in Paris, France, on May 21, 1927, to complete the first non-stop solo flight across the Atlantic Ocean. He made the historic 3,610-mile [...]
May 19, 2013 |
Crews will have to rebuild 2,000 feet of track following a collision between two trains that injured 72 people on friday, May 17, 2013.
May 19, 2013 |
Palestinian refugees in Egypt say they have it worse than those who fled to other countries because they do not receive assistance.
May 19, 2013 |
Teams compete to build the most impressive human towers in Catalonia where the tradition is common during festivals in many places. 
May 18, 2013 |
Riot police clashed with protesters during multiple demonstrations against Turkey’s Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan and his government’s policy on Syria, across the country on Saturday, May 18, 2013. Erdogan said on Friday it would be up to the U.N. Security Council to decide whether to establish a no-fly zone inside Syria and said he backed [...]
May 17, 2013 |
Reuters photographer Siegfried Modola travelled to document Ethiopia’s ancient salt trade in the Danakil Depression, one of the hottest and harshest environments on earth, with an average annual temperature of 94 degrees Fahrenheit (34.4 Celsius). For centuries, merchants have travelled there with caravans of camels to collect salt from the surface of the vast desert [...]
May 16, 2013 |
Tens of thousands of ultra-Orthodox Israelis clashed with police after gathering to protest against newly proposed government legislation that would see them drafted into the military.
May 16, 2013 |
Photos of Afghan witnesses of the pre-dawn events of March 11, 2012. A U.S. soldier allegedly rampaged through two villages killing 16 people. U.S. Army Staff Sgt. Robert Bales of Lake Tapps, Washington, is accused of the killings. Bales has not entered a plea, but his lawyers have not disputed his involvement in the killings. [...]
May 16, 2013 |
Obama and Turkish Prime Minister Erdogan met Thursday to discuss Syria. “We both agree that Assad needs to go,” Obama said.
May 16, 2013 |
A suicide car bomb tore through a U.S. convoy in the Afghan capital on May 16, 2013, killing at least 15 people, including six Americans.
Photos from the "All Star Celebrity Apprentice" Finale at Cipriani 42nd Street on Sunday, May 19, 2013 in New York
On this Day – May 20, 1927 – Charles Lindbergh flies “The Spirit of St. Louis” out of Roose
A powerful storm system rumbled through the Plains and upper Midwest on Sunday, spawning tornadoes that damaged hom
