A Northwest Side man was ordered held without bail this morning, accused of holding captive a woman he met at an anime convention. Sir Wilfred Camaligan, 22, faces attempted murder, kidnapping and aggravated domestic battery charges. Police and prosecutors say he battered the young woman and had her cut herself during the time she was forced to stay in his home in the 5300 block of West Lawrence Avenue. Camaligan was found hiding in the basement of his residence Friday and was arrested, according to police. Officers went to the home after the 20-year-old woman escaped, prosecutors said. 

 (Updates with further closures in 10th paragraph, Cantor visits in 18th paragraph, FEMA comments at end of story.) Aug. 24 (Bloomberg) -- A black fence encircled the Washington Monument, the obelisk most visible among memorials to American leaders on the National Mall, the day after a 5.8- magnitude earthquake centered in Virginia rocked the capital.

Organization of the Islamic Cooperation (OIC) countries have pledged $350 million in aid to fight famine in Somalia at an emergency summit in Istanbul, OIC Secretary General Ekmeleddin Ihsanoglu said Wednesday. With some 3.7 million Somalis at risk of starvation in the Horn of Africa country, Ihsanoglu said he hoped the aid would soon reach $500 million and urged donors to improve drought-stricken Somalia’s long-term food security by helping it rebuild infrastructure and agriculture.

Just before World Day against Child Labor, hundreds of youth from the New York City area rallied outside Hershey's store in Times Square. The young people, from second grade through high school, were calling on Hershey to stop child labor, forced labor and trafficking in its cocoa supply chain and to start using Fair Trade Certified cocoa. Despite committing in 2001 to end child and forced labor in its chocolate, Hershey has not agreed to independently certify that the vast majority of the cocoa in its chocolate was produced in compliance with international labor rights standards. Ten years after Hershey said it would end this abuse in its supply chain, hundreds of thousands of young people continue to labor in hazardous conditions to produce cocoa in West Africa. It was inspiring to see young people in NYC speaking out against the abuse of children like them in order to produce their favorite candy.