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An Egyptian protester wears a mask as he attends a protest marking the second anniversary of a military crackdown on protesters outside Egypt's state TV building in Cairo, Egypt, Wednesday, Oct. 9, 2013. Hundreds of Egyptians held candles, waved pictures of slain protesters and demanded retribution from former generals while marking the second anniversary of the killing of 26 people, mostly Christians, in the military crackdown outside the state TV building. (AP Photo/Khalil Hamra)

Egypt denounces U.S. decision to cut aid

By Cheryl K. Chumley - The Washington Times

A Chinese clerk counts U.S. dollars in exchange for Chinese renminbi at a Hefei, China, bank. (Associated Press)

China lectures Obama on debt ceiling: ‘Clock is ticking’

By Cheryl K. Chumley - The Washington Times

Bodies of drowned migrants are lined up in the port of Lampedusa Thursday, Oct. 3, 2013. Tens of people died when a ship carrying African migrants toward Italy caught fire and sank off the Sicilian island of Lampedusa, spilling hundreds of passengers into the sea, officials said Thursday. Many migrants have been rescued, but the boat is believed to have been carrying as many as 500 people. It is one of the deadliest migrant shipwrecks in recent times and the second one this week off Italy: On Monday, 13 men drowned while trying to reach southern Sicily when their ship ran aground just a few meters (yards) from shore at Scicli. (AP Photo/Nino Randazzo, Health Care Service, HO)

Boat carrying 500 sinks off Italy, killing at least 94

By Cheryl K. Chumley - The Washington Times

Angry Nigerian students trash embassy in Russia; 16 arrested

By Cheryl K. Chumley - The Washington Times

China mystery: Legal activist questioned by police disappears at airport

By Cheryl K. Chumley - The Washington Times

** FILE ** In this Friday, June 1, 2012, file photo released by Britain's Ministry of Defence, Britain's Prince William sits in the cockpit of a helicopter at RAF Valley in Anglesey Wales. Prince William has finished his tour of duty as a Royal Air Force search-and-rescue helicopter pilot and has left operational service with the British military to focus on royal duties and charity work, royal officials said Thursday, Sept 12, 2013. (AP Photo/ SAC Faye Storer, MOD, File)

Prince William completes military service: Next up, environmentalism

By Cheryl K. Chumley - The Washington Times

German police thwart neo-Nazi plot to use model-airplane bomb

By Cheryl K. Chumley - The Washington Times

Emergency vehicles attend the scene of a major accident on the Sheppey Bridge Crossing near Sheerness in Kent, south England, following a multi-vehicle collision earlier Thursday morning, Sept. 5, 2013. (AP Photo/Gareth Fuller, PA)

200-car pile-up on British roads leaves 2 dead, 100 injured

By Cheryl K. Chumley - The Washington Times

England poised to shutter jails as super-prison site revealed

By Cheryl K. Chumley - The Washington Times

** FILE ** British broadcaster David Frost arrives at the world premiere of the film "Frost/Nixon" at the London Film Festival in central London on Wednesday, Oct. 15, 2008. (AP Photo/Joel Ryan)

David Frost, known for Nixon interviews, dies at 74

By Sylvia Hui - Associated Press

** FILE ** Syrian President Bashar Assad delivers a speech at the parliament in Damascus, Syria, June 3, 2012. Israel launched an airstrike into Syria on Friday, May 3, 2013, apparently targeting a suspected weapons site, U.S. officials said Friday night, May 3, 2013. (AP Photo/SANA, File)

Syrian hackers threaten retaliation for any U.S. strike

By Shaun Waterman - The Washington Times

Bugs Bunny (right) and other animated characters are under a fatwa issued by Islamic clerics in India, who say cartoons make a mockery of what the religious leaders say are Allah's creations.

Islamic leaders in India issue fatwa against cartoons

By Cheryl K. Chumley - The Washington Times

** FILE ** This Aug. 26, 2013, file photo shows Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel speaking in Jakarta, Indonesia. U.S. forces are now ready to act on any order by President Barack Obama to strike Syria, Hagel said Tuesday. (AP Photo/Achmad Ibrahim, File)

Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel: No U.N. approval needed for Syrian strikes

By Kristina Wong - The Washington Times

**FILE** Exiled Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama greets people after walking over the Londonderry Peace Bridge, during a visit to Londonderry, Northern Ireland, on April 18, 2013. The Dalai Lama walked across the city's iconic Peace Bridge with hundreds of children from across the religious divide. (Associated Press)

Dalai Lama website hacked, infected with viruses

By Cheryl K. Chumley - The Washington Times

Furious France farmers protest prices by smashing 100,000 eggs a day

By Cheryl K. Chumley - The Washington Times

Travelers make their way to the departure lounge at Sanaa International Airport, in Yemen, Wednesday, Aug. 7, 2013. The State Department on Tuesday ordered non-essential personnel at the U.S. Embassy in Yemen to leave the country. (AP Photo/Hani Mohammed)

Yemen foils al Qaeda bomb plot, as U.S. drones strike again

By Cheryl K. Chumley - The Washington Times

** FILE ** Glasgow-born actor and Oscar winner Peter Capaldi, as he appeared in London in this file photo dated May 12, 2013. Peter Capaldi was named late Sunday Aug. 4, 2013, as the next lead star for the long-running British science fiction TV series "Doctor Who." (AP Photo / Dominic Lipinski, PA, FILE)

Peter Capaldi: Scottish actor named as next ‘Doctor Who’ star

By Jill Lawless - Associated Press

This image provided on Thursday, Sept. 1, 2011, by NASA shows the agency's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity using its camera to take this picture showing the rover's arm extended toward a light-toned rock, "Tisdale 2," during the 2,695th Martian day on Aug. 23, 2011. The solar-powered rover beamed back images of the horizon, soil and nearby rocks that are unlike any it has seen during its seven years roaming the Martian plains. (AP Photo/NASA)

Mission Mars: Scientists in Britain map out conceptual astronaut landing

By Cheryl K. Chumley - The Washington Times

A Southwest Airlines Boeing 737 experienced a collapse of its nose landing gear while touching down at LaGuardia Airport in New York on Monday, July 22, 2013. The plane came to rest on a patch of grass after skidding down the runway. (AP Photo/John Minchillo)

Southwest plane’s ‘bang and a bounce’ landing injures 10 at New York’s LaGuardia Airport

By Cheryl K. Chumley - The Washington Times