World | WPN World People News

Residential buildings rise up across the Dnieper River from the Monastery of the Caves, a UNESCO World Heritage Site, in the Ukrainian capital of Kyiv.or Security and Co-operation in Europe

You could call it the slaughter of the innocents, 2012. Twenty young children mowed down, eviscerated in a rain of bullets. But this time there was no Herod, no autocratic ruler, to blame for the massacre. No, this time the cause of the horror which has devastated hundreds of lives, and shocked the nation, has to be looked at deep within our culture, indeed, within ourselves.

The DARPA Spectrum Challenge is a competition for teams to create software-defined radio protocols that best use communication channels in the presence of other users and interfering signals.

The Holy Shrine of Imam Hussein in Karbala.

Aerial view of Ndélé in the Central African Republic.

Opposition activists say a car bomb in the Syrian capital has killed at least 9 people, and say the death toll is expected to rise because many of the wounded are in critical condition.

Smoke drifts into the sky from buildings and houses hit by shelling in Homs, Syria (June 2012).

UN convoy arriving in March 2012 with aid to camps for internally displaced people in Kachin state, Myanmar.