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A participant wears a mask as he runs during the Delhi Half Marathon in New Delhi, India, Sunday, Nov. 19, 2017. Ethiopia's Birhanu Legese and Almaz Ayana won the men's and women's elite categories, respectively. (AP Photo/Oinam Anand)

New Delhi’s polluted air doesn’t deter distance runners

By NICK PERRY - Associated Press

Indian commuters wait for transport amid thick blanket of smog on the outskirts of New Delhi, India, Friday, Nov. 10, 2017. As air pollution peaked this week in Delhi, it rose to more than 30 times the World Health Organization’s recommended safe level. Experts have compared it to smoking a couple of packs of cigarettes a day. A recent report by the Lancet medical journal estimated that a quarter of all premature deaths in India, some 2.5 million each year, are caused by pollution. (AP Photo/Altaf Qadri)

Anger rises as toxic air chokes India’s capital

By NICK PERRY - Associated Press

Indian presidential staff members walk surrounded by smog at the presidential palace in New Delhi, India, Tuesday, Nov. 7, 2017. Air pollution in India's capital has hit hazardous levels prompting local officials to ask that school shut down and a half marathon scheduled later in November be called off. (AP Photo/Manish Swarup)

Severe pollution hits Indian capital, causing health worries

By MUNEEZA NAQVI - Associated Press

India, Italy leaders hold talks marking thaw in relations

Associated Press

Illustration on Pakistan and Secretary Tillerson by Linas Garsys/The Washington Times

Rex Tillerson’s Sisyphean mission

By Jed Babbin

FILE- This undated photo provided by the Richardson Texas Police Department shows 3-year-old Sherin Mathews. The manager of the orphanage in India where Sherin was adopted said the toddler was cheerful, healthy and eating well and her prospective parents eager to hear her voice last year. So she wants answers about what happened before the girl’s body was found in a culvert and her father was jailed, allegedly telling police the girl needed a special diet and choked to death on milk. (Richardson Texas Police Department via AP, File)

Caregiver of Indian girl found dead in Texas wants answers

By MUNEEZA NAQVI - Associated Press

Police say Swiss tourists badly beaten in north India

By BISWAJEET BANERJEE - Associated Press

In this Sept 18, 2017 photo, Tasleema Bilal , right, and her teenage niece Kousain Ajaz, show their chopped braids inside their home in Srinagar, India. Unidentified assailants have chopped off long-braided hair of over 100 mostly teenage girls and young women since last month in Indian-controlled Kashmir. The attacks have intensified fear and panic, protests and even vigilantes in the disputed Himalayan region, where most population is already exhausted and traumatized by decades of brutal conflict. (AP Photo/Mukhtar Khan)

Mystery attacks chopping women’s hair raise panic in Kashmir

By AIJAZ HUSSAIN - Associated Press

Secretary of State Rex Tillerson speaks at the Center for Strategic and International Studies on Wednesday, Oct. 18, 2017, in Washington. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

Tillerson seeks stronger ties with India, chides China

By MATTHEW PENNINGTON - Associated Press

FILE- In this Aug. 20, 2012 file photo, Indian Muslims offer Eid al-Fitr prayer at Shahi Masjid at the famous Taj Mahal in Agra, India. India's famed monument of love, the white marble Taj Mahal, is finding itself at the heart of a political storm with some members of India's ruling Hindu right-wing party claiming that the mausoleum built by a Muslim emperor does not reflect Indian culture. (AP Photo/Rajesh Kumar Singh, File)

Monument of love, the Taj Mahal, at heart of political storm

By BISWAJEET BANERJEE - Associated Press

Colorado governor leads trade mission to India this week

Associated Press

Air pollution high at U17 World Cup in India

By AIJAZ HUSSAIN - Associated Press

U.S. soccer player Josh Sargent celebrates a goal against India during their FIFA U-17 World Cup match in New Delhi, India, Friday, Oct. 6, 2017. (AP Photo/Tsering Topgyal)

US beats host India 3-0 in Under-17 World Cup opener

By The Associated Press - Associated Press

Paramedics undergo a mock drill to evacuate injured at Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium, one of the venues for the FIFA U-17 World Cup in New Delhi, India, Wednesday, Oct. 4, 2017. (AP Photo/Altaf Qadri)

India set to make World Cup soccer debut as host/participant

By MANIK BANERJEE - Associated Press

A slipper of an injured commuter is seen stuck on the railing of a pedestrian bridge where a stampede took place at the Elphinstone station, in Mumbai, India, Friday, Sept. 29, 2017. The stampede broke out on a crowded pedestrian bridge connecting two railway stations in Mumbai during the Friday morning rush, killing a number of people police said. (AP Photo/Rafiq Maqbool)

Stampede on crowded Indian pedestrian bridge leaves 22 dead

By Rafiq Maqbool and Manish Mehta - Associated Press

This Nov. 13, 2016 photo shows performers in a Diwali celebration at Disney California Adventure Park in Anaheim, Calif. Diwali is a festival of lights celebrated by Hindus, Sikhs and Jains in India and other countries, but the holiday is becoming better known in the U.S. with more public celebrations here. The Diwali celebration at Disneyland Resort, which includes performances of traditional Indian dances and a Bollywood dance party for guests, is part of a festival of holidays at the theme park reflecting cultural traditions from around the world. The Disney festival begins Nov. 10 this year and runs through Jan. 7. (Scott Brinegar/Disneyland Resort via AP)

Diwali festivals grow in US, from Disney to Times Square

By BETH J. HARPAZ - Associated Press

In this image released by Focus Features, Judi Dench, left, and Ali Fazal appear in a scene from &quot;Victoria and Abdul.&quot; (Peter Mountain/Focus Features via AP)

Review: ‘Victoria & Abdul’ illuminates only half the title

By MARK KENNEDY - Associated Press

A poster of slain Indian journalist Gauri Lankesh is shown held by a protester at a recent vigil. Associated Press photo

Gauri Lankesh murder in India angers the country

By Joseph D'Souza

ADVANCE FOR THE WEEKEND OF SEPT. 23-24 AND THEREAFTER - In a Sept. 5, 2017 photo, Noah Strycker is seen at his home in Creswell, Oregon. Strycker astonished birdwatching enthusiasts in 2015, when he demolished the old record for most bird species identified in a single year with a jaw-dropping 6,042, besting the old mark by more than 1,700 species. (/The Corvallis Gazette-Times via AP)

Breaking birding record only beginning for Oregon man

By BENNETT HALL - Associated Press

Montgomery County’s Indian immigrants feel pull of politics

By TALIA RICHMAN - Associated Press