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**FILE** This 1988 photo provided by Bobby Lee shows Kenneth Bae (right) and Mr. Lee together when they were freshmen at the University of Oregon. Bae, detained for nearly six months in North Korea, has been sentenced to 15 years of "compulsory labor" for unspecified crimes against the state, Pyongyang announced on May 2, 2013. (Associated Press/The Register-Guard)

North Korea releases details of why American was sentenced to hard labor

By Cheryl K. Chumley - The Washington Times

17 pregnant teens rescued from Nigerian baby factory

By Cheryl K. Chumley - The Washington Times

23 police en route to arrest cult members in Nigeria killed by militia

By Cheryl K. Chumley - The Washington Times

India in panic as drunken bears kill 8 villagers

By Cheryl K. Chumley - The Washington Times

Indonesian U.N peacekeepers patrol the Lebanese side of the Lebanese-Israeli border in the southern village of Kfar Kila, Lebanon, Tuesday May 7, 2013. Four U.N. peacekeepers were seized by armed gunmen on Tuesday while they were patrolling in the demilitarized zone separating Syria from the Israeli-occupied sections of Golan Heights. (Associated Press)

Four U.N. peacekeepers seized on Syrian DMZ

By Cheryl K. Chumley - The Washington Times

** FILE ** The world headquarters of General Motors Co. in Detroit are pictured in 2009. (Associated Press)

GM pulls ad with ‘ching, ching, chop suey’ lyrics

By Cheryl K. Chumley - The Washington Times

Waitress Jasmine Randhawa serves a pepperoni pizza at Mountain Mike's pizza parlor in Palo Alto, Calif., on Friday, April 1, 2011. The nation's service sector, which employs about 90 percent of the U.S. workforce, grew in April, though at the slowest pace since August. (AP Photo/Paul Sakuma)

Pizza reduces cancer risk: study

By Cheryl K. Chumley - The Washington Times

Overrun Switzerland clamps down on immigrants from EU

By Cheryl K. Chumley - The Washington Times

Italian Democratic Party lawmaker Enrico Letta makes a statement to the media after talks with Italian President Giorgio Napolitano in Rome's Quirinale Palace on Wednesday, April 24, 2013. Mr. Napolitano has appointed Mr. Letta, 46, as premier and asked him to try to form a government to end Italy's political paralysis and set the country back on the path of reform and economic growth. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia)

Center-left Enrico Letta takes helm as Italian prime minister

By Cheryl K. Chumley - The Washington Times

A woman cuts weeds in a field near an unfinished real estate project in Chongqing, China, Tuesday, April 23, 2013. (AP Photo/Alexander F. Yuan)

China gains another step to replace U.S. dollar with yuan in global markets

By Cheryl K. Chumley - The Washington Times

** FILE ** Rebels from al-Qaeda-affiliated Jabhat al-Nusra wave their brigade flag as they step atop a Syrian air force helicopter at the Taftanaz Air Base, which was was captured by the rebels, on Friday, Jan. 11, 2013, in Idlib province in northern Syria. (AP Photo/Edlib News Network)

UAE thwarts al Qaeda terror plan and arrests suspects

By Cheryl K. Chumley - The Washington Times

Gay marriage law looms in New Zealand, as lawmakers set to vote

By Cheryl K. Chumley - The Washington Times

** FILE ** Bert Lahr (from left) as the Cowardly Lion, Ray Bolger as the Scarecrow, Judy Garland as Dorothy and Jack Haley as the Tin Woodman star in the 1939 film "The Wizard of Oz."

‘Wizard of Oz’ song mocking Margaret Thatcher joins list of tunes BBC censored

By Jill Lawless - Associated Press

Israeli women pray at the Western Wall in Jerusalem, Thursday, April 11, 2013. Israeli police have detained five women while praying at the Western Wall in Jerusalem for performing religious rituals that ultra-Orthodox Jews say are reserved for men. (AP Photo/Michal Fattal)

Western Wall women detained for breaching gender law

By Cheryl K. Chumley - The Washington Times

** FILE ** This Friday, Oct. 5, 2012, photo, shows a Kia optima's steering wheel inside of a Kia car dealership in Elmhurst, Ill. Korean automakers Hyundai and Kia announced Wednesday, April 3, 2013, that they recalling almost 1.9 million vehicles to fix problems with air bags and brake light switches. The switch recall covers almost 1.7 million vehicles — most of the automakers' model lineups from the 2007 through 2011 model years. (AP Photo/Nam Y. Huh)

Hyundai, Kia recall 1.9M cars in U.S. markets

By Cheryl K. Chumley - The Washington Times

** FILE ** A Palestinian girl waits inside a school in Gaza City, Nov. 21, 2012. (Associated Press)

Hamas introduces law in Gaza to ban integration of males, females older than 9

By Jessica Chasmar - The Washington Times

Google facing European privacy probe

By Shaun Waterman - The Washington Times

** FILE ** University students shout slogans outside Greece's parliament during a demonstration against education reforms, in Athens on Thursday, March 28, 2013. About 3,500 people, in two separate rallies, gathered against the reform that will see roughly one in five universities and polytechnic faculties closed or merged. (AP Photo/Thanassis Stavrakis)

Eurozone hits record high 12 percent unemployment

By Cheryl K. Chumley - The Washington Times

** FILE ** Essayist Christopher Hitchens speaks during a debate on Iraq and the foreign policies of the United States and Britain, in this Sept. 14, 2005, file photo taken in New York. Vanity Fair reports Hitchens died on Thursday, Dec. 15, 2011. (AP Photo/Chad Rachman)

PRUDEN: The sanctioned abuse of the faith

By Wesley Pruden - The Washington Times

** FILE ** This Sept. 27, 2010, file photo reviewed by the U.S. military, shows a U.S. military guard walking a corridor between detainee cells at the Parwan detention facility near Bagram, north of Kabul, Afghanistan. (AP Photo/David Guttenfelder, File)

U.S. hands over Bagram prison in Afghanistan

By Cheryl K. Chumley - The Washington Times