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John Mayer sings to tens of thousands at the 2013 Global Citizen Festival in Central Park. The event is part of an effort to end extreme poverty.

A Concert With Jay-Z (And India's Leader) Aims To End Poverty

1:55pm September 26, 2014

by Linda Poon

The Global Citizen Festival is live in New York (and on TV) on Saturday. The superstar-studded event is designed to encourage concertgoers to care about the issues as well as the celebrities.

Sweet or salty? Historically among Eastern European Jews, how they liked their gefilte fish depended on where they lived. This divide created a strictly Jewish geography known as "the gefilte fish line."

The Gefilte Fish Line: A Sweet And Salty History Of Jewish Identity

1:41pm September 26, 2014

by Deena Prichep

Gefilte fish can be a hard sell even in its standard savory form. But some European Jews like it sweet, a preference that, surprisingly, overlaps exactly with a geographic and linguistic divide.

Scientists and officials of Indian Space Research Organization pose for photos as they celebrate the success of Mars Orbiter Mission (MoM) on Wednesday.

Success! India's First Mars Probe Is In Orbit And Working

12:30pm September 26, 2014

by Scott Neuman

Scientists cheered and the prime minister congratulated his country on navigating "a route known to very few" to reach the Red Planet — something few other nations have accomplished.

Policemen in riot gear guard a checkpoint on a road near a courthouse where ethnic Uighur academic Ilham Tohti's trial was taking place in Urumqi, Xinjiang, last week. Tohti, an economics professor, is accused of promoting Xinjiang's independence from Chi

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China: 'Serious' Terrorist Attack Kills 50 In Xinjiang

12:23pm September 26, 2014

by Scott Neuman

First reports of the attack in the largely Muslim region last Sunday said two people had died, but state-run media now say the toll is much higher.

Sister Teresa Forcades prays over the graves of fellow nuns in a cemetery at her Sant Benet Monastery in Montserrat, Spain.

The Outspoken Spanish Nun Who's Made Herself A Political Force

11:12am September 26, 2014

by Lauren Frayer

From her convent on a sacred mountain, Benedictine nun Teresa Forcades — a feminist medical doctor with a Ph.D. in public health — is a prominent leftist and leading advocate of Catalan independence.

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Bendu Borlay, 21 and an Ebola survivor, is caring for an infant whose mother died of the disease.

Grieving But Grateful, Ebola Survivors In Liberia Give Back

11:12am September 26, 2014

by Ofeibea Quist-Arcton

After living through their own nightmares, Ebola survivors are still mourning the loss of their loved ones. But they're giving back by working at the treatment centers and caring for children.

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Syrian Opposition Leader: We Can't Fight A Two-Front War

11:12am September 26, 2014

Rachel Martin speaks with Hadi al-Bahra, leader of the Syrian Opposition Coalition, who is in New York this week to address the United Nations General Assembly.

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Syria's Civil War Complicates Plan To Combat Islamic State

11:12am September 26, 2014

by Michele Kelemen

The international strategy to deal with Iraq seems fairly clear cut — help Iraqi forces beat back a terrorist group that controls much of its territory. In Syria, that's far more complicated.

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At U.N., Obama Vows To Dismantle Islamic State

11:12am September 26, 2014

by Scott Horsley

At the United Nations, President Obama made the case for American intervention in the Mideast to counter ISIS, but called for an international response against that threat and others.

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Vatican Arrests One Of Its Own On Child Sex Abuse Charges

11:12am September 26, 2014

by Sylvia Poggioli

For the first time, the Vatican has put one of its own under house arrest for alleged sex abuse of minors. Josef Wesolowski is the Vatican's former ambassador to the Dominican Republic and was defrocked in June.

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