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Korea Searches for Answers
The sinking of the Sewol is being called one of South Korea's worst peacetime disasters as survivors question why the captain didn't immediately issue an evacuation order. Nine people are confirmed dead and rescuers are looking for nearly 300 missing passengers
Putin Admits Sending Troops
The Russian leader says in a televised Q&A that he sent forces to Crimea and hopes he won't need to do the same in eastern Ukraine
Wisconsin Passes Custody Law
Wisconsin has passed a first-in-the-nation law that prevents parents from handing over custody of their adopted children without judicial approval
Alleged Heartbleed Hacker Arrested in Canada
Authorities in Canada have made what appears to be the first arrest related to the Heartbleed encryption bug that pushed millions of people to change their passwords, taking a teenager into custody this week for allegedly hacking into the country's tax agency website
Egypt’s al-Sisi Leads TIME 100 Poll
Abdul Fattah al-Sisi, the former Army chief who ousted President Mohamed Morsi and who is now running for the presidency, holds a commanding lead in TIME's reader poll for the year's most influential people, followed by Justin Bieber and Lady Gaga
X-Men Director Bryan Singer Faces Teen Sex Lawsuit
Court papers filed Wednesday allege the Hollywood icon sexually abused a teenage boy in 1998 and 1999. The plaintiff claims to have been coerced into sexual acts with the promise of a role in an X-Men film. Singer denies all allegations
Highway to Health: Sick AC/DC Guitarist on Hiatus
The legendary rock group announced this week that its longtime guitarist Malcolm Young, 61, is taking some time off due to concerns over an illness, but his remaining veteran bandmates plan to keep making music in his absence
Biden Opens Instagram Account With Presidential Selfie
Eleven hours after opening the Instagram account @vp, Vice President Joe Biden uploaded a snap featuring President Barack Obama with the caption "Found a friend to join me." He really couldn’t have featured a more prominent guest star
Google Searches for Results After Shares Slump
The tech giant raked in $15.4 billion in revenue, a 19% jump from a year earlier, but missed analysts' revenue and profitability estimates because of declining cost-per-click rates for its search ads and increased costs to make sure it's used on multiple platforms
20 Years Later, an Apology for the Rwandan Genocide
The New Zealand diplomat who was president of the Security Council in April 1994 admits the U.N. "utterly failed" to prevent the slaughter of up to one million people in Rwanda. He was speaking at a council meeting held to mark the 20th anniversary of the genocide
Kerry: Sanctions on Russia Will Affect U.S. Too
Secretary of State John Kerry warns that with U.S. giants like ExxonMobil and Coca-Cola investing or earning billions of dollars in Russia, imposing sanctions on Russian banking, energy, mining, arms and other industries will affect the American economy
Fall in Heart Attacks Related to Type 2 Diabetes
In a new study, researchers found that the rates of heart attacks and deaths related to high blood sugar dropped 60% from 1990 to 2010. The rates of lower extremity amputations, as well as strokes, dropped by about 50%
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