Abdel-Nour, the father of 24-year-old school teacher Dimyana Abdel-Nour, who is accused of insulting Islam while teaching fourth graders history of religions, speaks on the phone to a live television show about his daughter from his home in southern Egypt's ancient city of Luxor, Egypt, Thursday, May 16, 2013. Freed on Tuesday on a 20,000-pound…
FILE - In this April 29, 2013 file photo, teacher Cecilia Richardson helps a student tie a ribbon honoring murder victim, third grader Leila Fowler, at Jenny Lind Elementary School in Valley Springs, Calif. The father of a 12-year-old boy arrested in the stabbing death of his 8-year-old sister says he believes his son is…
Defense attorney Kathleen DeMetz, second from right, talks with Pedro Castro as Onil Castro, left, watches and Ariel Castro, right, looks down, in Cleveland Municipal court Thursday, May 9, 2013, in Cleveland. Ariel Castro was charged with four counts of kidnapping and three counts of rape. Pedro and Onil Castro, were held but faced no…
Buy AP Photo Reprints ISLAMABAD (AP) — Gunmen attacked an election rally in Pakistan's southern Punjab province on Thursday and abducted the son of a former prime minister, intensifying what has already been a violent run-up to Saturday's nationwide elections.Ali Haider Gilani, the son of ex-premier Yousuf Raza Gilani, is running for a provincial assembly…
Buy AP Photo Reprints MURRAY, Utah (AP) — A Utah soccer referee who slipped into a coma after being punched by a teenage player during a game a week ago died Saturday night, police said.Ricardo Portillo, 46, of Salt Lake City passed away at the hospital, where he was being treated following an assault, Unified…
FILE - In this Monday, April 15, 2013 file photo, people at Seoul Railway Station in Seoul, South Korea, watch TV news program showing North Korean leader Kim Jong Un. In his 16 months on the job, Kim’s government has raised fears with unusually aggressive threats against Seoul and Washington, and it’s not clear whether…
A North Korean child covers the eyes of her father as she sits on his shoulders watching mass folk dancing in front of Pyongyang Indoor Stadium in Pyongyang, North Korea, on Monday, April 15, 2013. Oblivious to international tensions over a possible North Korean missile launch, Pyongyang residents spilled into the streets Monday to celebrate…
FILE - This May 6, 1997 file photo shows comedian Jonathan Winters posing at a hotel in Beverly Hills, Calif. Winters, whose breakneck improvisations inspired Robin Williams, Jim Carrey and many others, died Thursday, April 11, 2013, at his Montecito, Calif., home of natural causes. He was 87. (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes, file)FILE - This May…
STORY HIGHLIGHTSStigma, isolation and grief are common among family members of mass murderers Criticism is frequently directed at the parents, spouses and children of the accused Psychology experts say it's important to talk through the grief and process the guilt Reconciling a killer's good traits with their evil deeds is challenging for those left behind…
"I believe it's time to recapture the sense of wonder and inspiration my grandfather and father felt when they gazed on (the ocean's) surface," says Philippe Cousteau.Cousteau is urging people to take a step back and ponder what a healthy ocean provides: half the world's oxygen, protein for an estimated one billion people as well…
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