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Perkins: You can't tinker with marriage

CNN - Politics - Sat, 2026-05-09 09:20
CNN's Piers Morgan talks to Tony Perkins, president of the Family Research Council, about gay marriage.
Categories: CNN, Issues, Politics

Drawing test 'predicts strokes'

BBC - News - Sat, 2026-05-09 09:20
A simple drawing test may help predict the risk of older men dying after a first stroke, a study in the journal BMJ Open suggests.
Categories: BBC, News

SA seizes $7m from 'rhino gang'

BBC - News - Sat, 2026-05-09 09:20
South Africa confiscates assets worth nearly $7m (£4m) from three suspected rhino poachers - two of whom are vets, police say.
Categories: BBC, News

Japan to take control of Tepco

BBC - News - Sat, 2026-05-09 09:20
The Japanese government is to take a controlling stake in Tokyo Electric Power in return for a 1 trillion yen ($12.5bn; £7.8bn) taxpayer bailout.
Categories: BBC, News

Puyol expects to miss Euro 2012

BBC - News - Sat, 2026-05-09 09:20
Spain's Carles Puyol says he expects to miss Euro 2012 because he requires arthroscopic surgery on a knee injury.
Categories: BBC, News

Lugar concedes with stinging words

CNN - Politics - Sat, 2026-05-09 09:20
As soon as 36-year Senate veteran Richard Lugar finished his concession speech Tuesday, he walked off the stage, out the back door and into his car. But he left behind something unusual and -- in the annals of politics -- somewhat extraordinary.
Categories: CNN, Issues, Politics

Bankers win unpaid bonus battle

BBC - News - Sat, 2026-05-09 09:20
More than 100 ex-employees of Dresdner Kleinwort bank win their fight to claim unpaid bonuses from current owner Commerzbank.
Categories: BBC, News

9 jailed in racially sensitive UK sex ring case

AP - World News - Sat, 2026-05-09 09:20
LONDON (AP) -- Nine men in northwest England were sentenced to jail terms Wednesday for luring girls as young as 13 years old into sexual encounters using alcohol and drugs - a case that has stirred racial tensions and sparked claims that authorities are failing to protect vulnerable children in state care....

Scytl: Voter fraud facts and fiction

With six months until Election Day, conspiracy theories are percolating on the Internet: Left-wing billionaire George Soros is going to rig the election for Barack Obama.

King upset over double agent leak in bomb plot

CNN - Politics - Sat, 2026-05-09 09:20
The chairman of the U.S. House Homeland Security Committee expressed dismay that someone leaked information about a double agent who infiltrated al Qaeda and helped foil a plot to blow up a U.S.-bound plane.
Categories: CNN, Issues, Politics

Blind activist known abroad while shunned by China

AP - World News - Sat, 2026-05-09 09:20
BEIJING (AP) -- Blind activist Chen Guangcheng has drawn a global media spotlight after setting off tensions between the U.S. and China, but he's almost unknown at home - and the Chinese government is working to keep it that way....

Fear lingers in blind Chinese activist's hometown

AP - World News - Sat, 2026-05-09 09:20
DONGSHIGU VILLAGE, China (AP) -- The fear is palpable and most people only dare whisper Chen Guangcheng's name in this village amid wheat fields where the blind activist was held under brutal house arrest....

Blind activist known abroad while shunned by China

AP - World News - Sat, 2026-05-09 09:20
BEIJING (AP) -- Blind activist Chen Guangcheng has drawn a global media spotlight after setting off tensions between the U.S. and China, but he's almost unknown at home - and the Chinese government is working to keep it that way....

Greek conservative Samaras: We must stay in euro

AP - World News - Sat, 2026-05-09 09:20
ATHENS, Greece (AP) -- Proposals by Greece's radical left party to withdraw from the international bailout commitments will lead to a "certain and immediate" catastrophe, Greece's conservative leader said Wednesday....

Explosion near UN convoy in Syria

BBC - News - Sat, 2026-05-09 09:20
An explosion hits a Syrian military truck which was escorting a convoy of UN observers to the city of Deraa, injuring a number of soldiers.
Categories: BBC, News

Myanmar reforms leave political prisoners behind

AP - World News - Sat, 2026-05-09 09:20
YANGON, Myanmar (AP) -- In a remote prison in northwest Myanmar, Aye Aung wakes up each day as he has for nearly 14 years - alone in a dark cell on a wooden plank, a prisoner of conscience all but forgotten by the world....
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