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A poster of chess player Garry Kasparov in Tromso, Norway, where the former world champion lost his bid to become the president of the World Chess Federation, or FIDE.
Culture
A chess legend fails in his bid to become the sport’s official king
A poster of chess player Garry Kasparov in Tromso, Norway, where the former world champion lost his bid to become the president of the World Chess Federation, or FIDE.
Culture
A chess legend fails in his bid to become the sport’s official king
Conflict
How artists and sculptors healed maimed soldiers during World War I
A burnt vehicle belonging to Iraqi security forces is pictured at a checkpoint in east Mosul on June 11, 2014, one day after radical Sunni Muslim insurgents seized control of the city.
Conflict
ISIS is moving to the ‘top of the list’ of counterterrorism worries
An armored vehicle at the entrance to Kibbutz Nahal Oz, established in 1951 along the Gaza border.
Conflict
Fighting has stopped again in Gaza, but nearby Israeli towns are still deserted
Migrants wait for a "coyote," the colloquial term for people smugglers, about 60 miles south of the U.S.-Mexico border in the Mexican state of Sonora. Coyotes call their clients "pollos," or chickens.
Global Politics
Facebook offers the best advertising for migrant-smuggling coyotes
Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Turkey's Prime Minister, and his wife, Ermine, wave hands to supporters as they celebrate his election victory in front of the Justice and Development party headquarters in Ankara on August 10, 2014.
Global Politics
Turkey meets the new boss, same as the old boss
Chickens and other livestock grown without the use of antibiotics are a small but growing part of the U.S. market. Perdue is now the largest producer of antibiotic-free chicken in the country, and other big players in the food industry are following the l
Environment
Consumers are demanding antibiotic-free meat, and Big Food is starting to listen
Chickens and other livestock grown without the use of antibiotics are a small but growing part of the U.S. market. Perdue is now the largest producer of antibiotic-free chicken in the country, and other big players in the food industry are following the l
Environment
Consumers are demanding antibiotic-free meat, and Big Food is starting to listen
Tania Chavez, 29, from Mexico has spent nearly half her life living in south-eastern Texas, unable to travel beyond secondary US checkpoints. She cannot go to her native Mexico either as she is out of status.
Justice
Trapped in Texas: Tens of thousands of immigrants are stuck in the borderlands
A Kurdish resident holds a signs during a demonstration in support of peshmerga troops in front of the US consulate in Erbil, Iraq.
Conflict
War, politics and humanitarian disasters give Iraq a perfect storm of crises
A Kurdish resident holds a signs during a demonstration in support of peshmerga troops in front of the US consulate in Erbil, Iraq.
Conflict
War, politics and humanitarian disasters give Iraq a perfect storm of crises
Music Heard on Air
Music heard on the air for August 11, 2014