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Lee Joon-seok, center, the captain of the sunken ferry Sewol in the water off the southern coast, leaves a court which issued his arrest warrant in Mokpo, south of Seoul, South Korea, Saturday, April 19, 2014.

Captain of doomed South Korean ferry faces death penalty
New York Post South Korean prosecutors on Monday sought the death penalty for the captain of a ferry that capsized in April, leaving 304 people, most of them school children, dead or missing, in a trial of 15 crew... (photo: AP / Yonhap)

Electric Chair Executions Back In Tennessee As The Only Death Penalty Option
The Inquisitr In a related report by The Inquisitr, the state of Utah is considering bringing back firing squad executions for their death penalty because it’s considerably cheaper than lethal injection and... (photo: Creative Commons)

FC Bayern Munich's head coach Pep Guardiola, during a press conference, prior to the Super Cup match between Bayern Munich and Chelsea, at the Eden stadium in Prague, Czech Republic, Thursday, Aug. 29, 2013. Munich will play Chelsea in a Super Cup soccer match on Friday.

Ten-man Bayern dominated Manchester City
Goal The coach praises his players' effort despite their late defeat at the Etihad Stadium, with Medhi Benatia's early sending-off having left them in a precarious position Bayern Munich coach Pep... (photo: AP)

Mike Myers attends the Elton John AIDS Foundation’s 13th Annual "An Enduring Vision" benefit at Cipriani's Wall Street on Tuesday, Oct. 28, 2014, in New York.

Mike Myers -- Michael Buble Is Wrong ... Best Hockey Fighter Ever Is ...
TMZ Mike Myers has a bone to pick with Michael Buble ... claiming the singer was dead wrong about the greatest NHL fighter of all time. Of course, Buble had picked Geno Odjick ... who once tried to... (photo: AP / Charles Sykes)

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File: South Korean Coast Guard police officers on a boat carry the body of a passenger believed to have been trapped in the sunken ferry Sewol in the water off the southern coast near Jindo, south of Seoul, South Korea, Sunday, April 20, 2014.

South Korea ferry captain jailed for 36 years as search for bodies ends
Sydney Morning Herald Gwangju: A South Korean court on Tuesday found Lee Joon-seok, the captain of a ferry that capsized in April killing... (photo: AP / Lee Jin-man)

File - Employees walk among new cars Nov. 29, 2006, at the first showroom in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, where women sell cars to female buyers. Although women are banned from driving in Saudi Arabia, they can own cars.

Saudi Arabia could lift ban on women drivers
The Independent It’s the only country in the world where women are not allowed to drive, but that could be about to change. The advisory council to King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia has... (photo: AP / Donna Abu-Nasr)

On Peacekeeping
Huffington Post Remarks by Ambassador Samantha Power, U.S. Permanent Representative to the United Nations, at the American Enterprise Institute on UN Peacekeeping Reform, November, 7,... (photo: UN / Nektarios Markogiannis)

Pakistan arrests 43 over 'blasphemy' killings
BBC News Pakistani police have arrested at least 43 suspects in connection with Tuesday's killing of a Christian couple accused of desecrating the Koran. The couple were... (photo: AP / Mohammad Sajjad)

Russell Brand: The internet pokes fun at comedian turned revolutionary... by shouting Blur's 'Parklife' at the end of each sentence
Belfast Telegraph Russell Brand's tendency towards verbosity has led his detractors to find a succinct way to palm off his talk of revolution: just stick the chorus of Blur's Parklife on... (photo: AP / Chris Pizzello)

Louis van Gaal: Chris Smalling was 'not very smart'
The Daily Telegraph ... (photo: Creative Commons / Muurad)

File - British, U.S., and Iraqi Soldiers post security at a road-side check point along the main avenue into the city near the Al Kuzayzah district of Basra, Iraq on July 10, 2008.

Lawyers claim 30 Iraqi civilians died at the hands of British soldiers
The Independent Disturbing new allegations detailing the deaths of 30 Iraqi civilians after being shot or arrested by British soldiers have been sent to the International Criminal Court... (photo: US Army / Sgt. Tim Ortez)

UN chief seeks help against female genital mutilation
The Siasat Daily Nairobi, October 30: UN Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon called on the media Thursday to speak out and help put an end "within this generation" to Female Genital Mutilation... (photo: UN / Evan Schneider)

S Africa football captain shot dead
Belfast Telegraph The captain of the South African national football team was fatally shot at his girlfriend's house during an attempted robbery as he tried to apprehend the intruders,... (photo: AP / Themba Hadebe)