The Egyptian military has given Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi until Wednesday to lay down a political roadmap for his country and settle differences with opposition leaders.
Kimberly McCarthy drew her last breaths Wednesday evening in Huntsville, Texas and was pronounced dead at 6:37 pm. She died 20 minutes after she was administered a single lethal dose of pentobarbitol. She became the 500th person executed in Texas since the re-start of the state's death penalty in 1982.
As anti-abortion activists watched closely, Texas Senator Wendy Davis stood from 11:18 am until 10 pm on Tuesday, in a feat of stamina and conviction, and filibustered the Republican sponsored abortion bill in the Texas State Senate.
After 15 days in space, China's Shenzhou-10 return capsule touched down in inner-Mongolia on Wednesday, making the successful flight the longest space mission undertaken by the Chinese.