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Ousted Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi speaks from the defendant's cage as he stands with co-defendants in a makeshift courtroom during a trial hearing in Cairo on Monday, Nov. 3, 2013. (AP Photo/Egyptian Interior Ministry)

Egypt court upholds ban on Muslim Brotherhood

By Cheryl K. Chumley - The Washington Times

Mexican man, 20, suspected of 79 murders

By Jessica Chasmar - The Washington Times

** FILE ** Britain's Chancellor of the Exchequer George Osborne, left, looks at a trading screen as he listens to a staff member of Industrial and Commercial Bank of China Ltd (ICBC) at a trading center during his visit to the ICBC headquarters in Beijing Tuesday, Oct. 15, 2013. (AP Photo/Jason Lee, Pool)

George Osborne: EU is killing U.K. economy

By Cheryl K. Chumley - The Washington Times

Chinese men walk on the street during a day of heavy pollution in Harbin, in northeast China's Heilongjiang province, on Monday, Oct. 21, 2013. Visibility shrank to less than half of a football field, and small-particle pollution soared to a record 40 times higher than an international safety standard in the city as the region entered its high-smog season. (AP Photo)

China smog emergency shuts down city of 11 million people

By Jessica Chasmar - The Washington Times

** FILE ** In this Friday, Sept. 27, 2013, file photo, the United Nations Security Council votes on a resolution that will require Syria to give up its chemical weapon, at U.N. Headquarters. Saudi Arabia is rejecting its seat on the U.N. Security Council and says the 15-member body is incapable of resolving world conflicts. (AP Photo/Craig Ruttle, File)

Saudi Arabia, angry with West, slams door on U.N. Security Council seat

By Cheryl K. Chumley - The Washington Times

** FILE ** ”Sesame Street's” Elmo. (Associated Press)

‘Elmo’ sentenced for trying to extort Girl Scouts out of $2 million

By Jessica Chasmar - The Washington Times

**FILE** Soldiers gather at a former camp for Islamic extremists near Marti, Nigeria, on June 5, 2013. Oil-rich Nigeria is threatened by the terrorist group Boko Haram. (Associated Press)

Nigerian jets bomb Islamist camps after college massacre

By Jessica Chasmar - The Washington Times

South Korean Defense Minister Kim Kwan-jin (center left) gives the South Korea-U.S. Combined Forces Command flag to the unit's incoming commander, U.S. Army Gen. Curtis Scaparrotti (center right), as U.S. Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel (left) and the outgoing commander, U.S. Army Gen. James D. Thurman, look on during a change-of-command ceremony for the United Nations Command, Combined Forces Command and United States Forces Korea at a U.S. military base in Seoul on Wednesday, Oct. 2, 2013. (AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon)

South Korea stages its largest military parade in a decade

By Jessica Chasmar - The Washington Times

** FILE ** A Saudi woman drives a car in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, the nation's capital, as part of a campaign to defy a ban on women driving, in an image made from video released on Friday, June 17, 2011, by Change.org. (AP Photo/Change.org)

Top Saudi cleric says women who drive risk damaging their ovaries

By Jessica Chasmar - The Washington Times

** FILE ** A woman blows a kiss as she lays a floral tribute in memory of the victim outside the Royal Artillery Barracks near the scene of a terror attack in Woolwich in southeast London on Thursday, May 23, 2013. A member of the armed forces was attacked and killed by two men on Wednesday. (AP Photo/Sang Tan)

Lee Rigby’s Muslim murder suspects plead not guilty to hacking in London street

By Cheryl K. Chumley - The Washington Times

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George Soros, 83, weds for the third time

By Jessica Chasmar - The Washington Times

** FILE ** A customer leaves a supermarket with her purchases, including toilet paper, which is in short supply, in Caracas, Venezuela, on Wednesday, May 15, 2013. Blaming political opponents for the shortfall, as it does for other shortages, the embattled socialist government said it would import 50 million rolls of toilet paper to boost supplies. (AP Photo/Fernando Llano)

Venezuela orders takeover of toilet paper factory amid shortages

By Jessica Chasmar - The Washington Times

** FILE ** Deposed Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi (AP Photo/Maya Alleruzzo)

Egypt bans 55,000 mosque preachers in crackdown on Islamists

By Jessica Chasmar - The Washington Times

The U.S. State Department has placed a $10 million bounty on Hafiz Mohammad Saeed (center), who founded the militant group Lashkar-e-Taiba. (Associated Press)

Islamist with $10 million U.S. bounty on his head leads mass rally in Pakistan

By Jessica Chasmar - The Washington Times

Mexican Barbie, one of Mattel's "Dolls of the World" line (Mattel.com)

Singapore ‘toy nerd’ amasses 6,000 Barbie dolls

By Cheryl K. Chumley - The Washington Times

Iranian President Hasan Rouhani speaks during debate on the proposed Cabinet at the parliament in Tehran on Thursday, Aug. 15, 2013. (AP Photo/Ebrahim Noroozi)

U.N. nuclear agency: Iran poised to test new enrichment centrifuges at Natanz

By Cheryl K. Chumley - The Washington Times

Rescue workers try to evacuate the injured after a cargo train known as "the Beast" derailed near Huimanguillo, Mexico, on Sunday, Aug. 25, 2013. The train, carrying at least 250 Central American hitchhiking migrants, derailed in a remote region, killing at least five people and injuring dozens, authorities said. (AP Photo/Tabasco State Government Press Office)

‘The Beast’ cargo train derails in Mexico; 5 stowaways killed

By Jessica Chasmar - The Washington Times

**FILE** Norway's Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg listens during a news conference following his meeting with Lithuania's President Dalia Grybauskaite in the Presidential palace in Vilnius, Lithuania, on June 25, 2013. (Associated Press)

Norway PM Stoltenberg goes undercover as taxi driver for votes

By Jessica Chasmar - The Washington Times