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Dmitry Lovetsky/AP An Illegitimate Election in Ukraine
It is unclear if even Russia will recognize the results of the vote, which Kiev and most Western leaders have condemned.
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Vadim Ghirda/AP Tragic Setbacks for U.S. Allies in Iraq and Syria
The losses underscored the fact that American support does not automatically lead to victory over ISIS.
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Reed Saxon/AP 'A Catastrophic Anomaly': The Crash of Virgin Galactic's SpaceShipTwo
One pilot is dead and another seriously injured after the experimental craft went down in a test flight over the Mojave Desert on Friday.
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Carlos Osorio/AP The Constitutional Right of Scabby the Rat
This week, a New York district judge ruled that the inflatable is not going to be exterminated anytime soon.
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Theo Renaut/AP Burkina Faso's 'Black Spring'
Protesters set fire to Parliament after MPs made plans to extend the 27-year rule of President Blaise Compaore.
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Al Jazeera Life as a Hostage in Syria
Theo Padnos, a former captive of Jabhat al-Nusra, tells the story of his captivity to The New York Times Magazine.
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Mackson Wasamunu/Reuters The Death of Zambia's 'King Cobra'
After Michael Sata passed away Tuesday night, Vice President Guy Scott will serve as interim president.
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Vadim Ghirda/AP The Death of an Australian ISIS Leader
Mohammad Ali Baryalei was a senior jihadist recruiter, personally responsible for bringing in over 30 of the approximately 60 of his fellow countrymen now fighting for the Islamic State.
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Darren Abate/AP When It Goes Down, Facebook Loses $24,420 Per Minute
At 6:52 p.m. Eastern today, Facebook stopped working. And it started losing money.
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NASA Unmanned U.S. Rocket Explodes During Liftoff
No one was injured when the vehicle suffered a "catastrophic anomaly," according to NASA Mission Control.
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Alejandrino Gonzalez/AP A Break in the Case of the Missing Mexican Students
Attorney General Jesus Murillo Karam put some minds at ease when he announced to reporters, "We have the people who carried out the abduction of these individuals."
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Jordan Strauss/AP Walmart, Apple, and the Fight Over Digital Wallets
Why retailers' coming face-off on mobile payments will be with card processors, not Cupertino
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Vadim Ghirda/AP Iraq's Kurds Ready to Join the Fight
In the coming days, additional fighters, believed to be 150 in total, will arrive in Kobani to defend the city against ISIS.
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Jeff Chiu/AP No More Tweets From Your Google Glass
Twitter no longer supports its app for the wearable device, though a third-party app developer could swoop in to fill the void.
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City of Ferguson/AP Where Is Darren Wilson?
The Ferguson officer involved in the shooting of Michael Brown has gone into hiding and been unable to testify against suspects he's arrested.
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Aaron Harris/Reuters Exit Ford, Enter Tory
"Normalcy" returns to Toronto politics as John Tory is elected to replace troubled mayor Rob Ford.
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YouTube ISIS's Shifting Social-Media Game
The group's newest propaganda videos seem aimed directly at Western media.
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Ted S. Warren/AP Marysville in Mourning
Three are dead after freshman Jaylen Fryberg opened fire in a high school cafeteria on Friday, shooting five students before taking his own life.
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U.S. Geological Survey/AP The Threat of Lava
A Hawaiian village braces as a volcano's flow comes within 100 yards of residential property.
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John Minchillo/AP Apple Nay
Two major pharmacy chains, Rite Aid and CVS, disabled the new mobile payment tool only days after it launched.
