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  • Gay marriage can now take place in France Gay marriage can now take place in France

    France has legalised same-sex marriage, becoming the 14th country to do so. President Francois Hollande signed the bill into law following months of bitter political debate, including a legal challenge by the right-wing opposition. On Friday the Constitutional Council threw out the challenge, allowing the president to sign the documents. The legislation also legalises gay ...

  • Sectarian Violence Kills 11 in Iraq

    It was a violent day in Iraq Saturday with at least 11 people killed and 10 policemen kidnapped as hatred simmers between the ruling Shi'ite majority and the Sunni minority. Gunmen broke into the home of an anti-terrorism policeman in the Baghdad suburb of Rasheed, killing him, his wife, and two children. Another security officer was killed elsewhere in Rasheed. Police say gunmen killed ...

  • Pope Church Must Help Poorest Not Dissect Theology

    VATICAN CITY Pope Francis shared personal moments with 200,000 people on Saturday, telling them he sometimes nods off while praying at the end of a long day and that it "breaks my heartrdquo; that the death of a homeless person is not news. Francis, who has made straight talk and simplicity a hallmark of his papacy, made his unscripted comments in answers to questions by four people at ...

  • Top Pakistani Politician Gunned Down in Karachi

    A top Pakistani politician has been shot and killed in Karachi. Police say Zahra Shahid Hussain was shot twice in the head Saturday during an attempted street robbery outside her home. She died on the way to the hospital. A spokesman for Hussain's Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf party, or PTI, calls her killing an act of terrorism. Hussain was a senior vice president of PTI, which ...

  • Russia defends arms sales to Syria

    Russia has defended its arms sales to Syria, saying it is for purely defensive purposes. The statement from Russia came after reports that Moscow had delivered advanced anti-ship missiles to the Damascus regime. According to the Guardian, Russian foreign minister, Sergei Lavrov, did not confirm it directly, but said that Moscow's weapons sales would not in any way alter the balance of forces ...

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Is Anybody There?

Is Anybody There?

Is Anybody There? is a quirky, sometimes schmaltzy British dramedy that mixes meaningful ruminations about growing old with broad black comedy about the ultimately awkward nature of death (there is simply nothing graceful about a corpse, especially one youre trying to mov ... ...

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  • Worlds smallest droplets created

    Physicists in Switzerland may have created the smallest drops of liquid ever made in the lab. That possibility has been raised by the results of a recent experiment conducted by Vanderbilt physicist Julia Velkovska and her colleagues at the Large Hadron Collider, the world's largest and most powerful particle collider located at the European Laboratory for Nuclear and Particle Physics (CERN) in ...

  • Pilot of Turkish F-16 fighter jet killed after crash near Syrian border

    The pilot of a Turkish F-16 fighter jet has been found dead after the aircraft crashed near Turkey's border with Syria, reports say. The plane was flying over the Amanos Mountains in the southern province of Osmaniye on Monday when it lost radio contact, Anatolia news agency said. The pilot reportedly sent a message saying "I'm jumping" before contact was lost. ...

  • Jonny Wilkinson delight after Toulon beat Clermont for European Cup

    Toulon delighted in dismissing detractors who have accused them of buying success on Saturday when they were crowned European champions in a victory flyhalf Jonny Wilkinson said was as good as winning the World Cup. Plying their trade in the second tier of French rugby just five years ago, the team from the Mediterranean capped their rapid rise in Dublin when they came from behind to beat ...

  • Qatar said to eye stake in Italys Versace

    Qatar Holding and an Italian state-controlled investment fund are interested in investing in Italian fashion house Versace, Il Sole 24 Ore said on ...

  • France Must Take Deficit Cuts Seriously Bundesbank head

    France has a special responsibility as a euro zone heavyweight to take deficit reduction rules seriously, even though its budget deficit is above target, Bundesbank President Jens Weidmann said in an interview published on ...

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