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Francois Lenoir / Reuters Turkey's Ongoing Crackdown
President Recep Tayyip Erdogan suspended nearly 13,000 police officers for their alleged links to the Gulen movement.
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Daniel Munoz / Reuters The Reduction of Maria Sharapova's Penalty
The Court of Arbitration for Sport has shortened the five-time Grand Slam champion’s two-year ban. She can return to competitive tennis in April 2017.
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Nasir Wakif / Reuters 'Taliban Was Defeated in Their Attack' on Kunduz
The provincial governor says though there are heavy clashes between government forces and the militant group, “now the situation is good.”
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TT News Agency / Reuters The Nobel Prize in Physics
This year’s award went to David Thouless, Duncan Haldane, and Michael Kosterlitz for their work on “for theoretical discoveries of topological phase transitions and topological phases of matter.”
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Osman Orsal / Reuters The Continuing Turkish State of Emergency
Since the July 15 failed coup, tens of thousands in the military, academia, judiciary, and the media have been arrested.
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Santi Palacios / AP The Rescuing of 6,000 Migrants in the Mediterranean
The Italian-led effort was one of the largest single-day operations of the European migration crisis.
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Lucas Jackson / Reuters A Judicial Rebuke of Mike Pence's Syrian-Refugee Policy
The Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals rejected the Indiana governor’s efforts to block their resettlement, calling his reasoning “nightmare speculation.”
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Gonzalo Fuentes / Reuters The $10 Million Robbery of Kim Kardashian West
The reality-TV star was held at gunpoint while in Paris for the city’s biannual fashion week.
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Abdalrhman Ismail / Reuters The Suspension of U.S.-Russian Cooperation in Syria
The U.S. said Russia has failed to live up to its agreement to allow aid workers into Aleppo.
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NASA/NOAA GOES Project Hurricane Matthew Moves North
The Category 4 storm is expected to bring dangerous weather conditions to Haiti, Cuba, and the Bahamas this week.
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Vadim Ghirda / AP Is Hungary's Referendum Result a Victory or a Defeat for the Prime Minister?
Nearly 98 percent of voters supported Viktor Orban’s call to reject an EU-mandated quota on migrants, but the turnout was below the 50-percent threshold that would make the results legally binding.
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Reuters The Russian Retreat From a Post-Cold War Nuclear Deal
President Vladimir Putin pulled out of an agreement to dispose of plutonium that could be used in 17,000 nuclear weapons.
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Mike Segar / Reuters Trump Says PTSD Patients Aren't 'Strong'
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Mike Segar / Reuters The Trump Team's 'Genius' Spin on Unpaid Taxes
The idea that the Republican candidate showed his business acumen by avoiding tax obligations may resonate with many of his supporters.
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Emilio Morenatti / AP The Upcoming Palestinian Elections in the West Bank
Voters in the Gaza Strip and East Jerusalem will be excluded from the vote.
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John Vizcaino / Reuters What's Next for Colombia and FARC?
The peace plan was expected to easily pass, but voters rejected it on Sunday.
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Nasir Wakif / Reuters The Battle for Kunduz Resumes
The Taliban has launched an operation to capture the strategically important city in Afghanistan.
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Kyodo / Reuters The Nobel Prize for Medicine
This year’s award was given to Yoshinori Ohsumi for his discoveries of the mechanisms for autophagy.
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Marco Bello / Reuters Colombia's Rejection of the FARC Peace Deal
An accord to end decades of violent war suffered a shocking defeat in a national referendum Sunday.
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Stefan Wermuth / Reuters Britain, Mark Your Calendars
Prime Minister Theresa May says the two-year process to leave the European Union will begin in March.
