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After jubilee success, monarchy faces the future

AP - World News - Wed, 2025-05-21 23:33
LONDON (AP) -- There were six figures on the balcony, three generations of royalty - and one large absence....

Games for Nintendo Wii U unveiled

BBC - News - Wed, 2025-05-21 23:33
Nintendo unveils 23 games under development for its Wii U console, but opts not to reveal a launch date or price.
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Paraguay leader acknowledges son

BBC - News - Wed, 2025-05-21 23:33
Paraguay's President Fernando Lugo says he will recognise that he is the father of a 10-year-old child born when he was still a Roman Catholic bishop.
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Paul supporters say RNC is blocking festival plans

AP - Politics - Wed, 2025-05-21 23:33
TAMPA, Fla. (AP) -- Ron Paul supporters are unhappy that Republican National Convention organizers aren't letting them throw a festival honoring the Texas congressman and presidential candidate the weekend before the gathering....

Paul supporters say RNC is blocking festival plans

AP - Politics - Wed, 2025-05-21 23:33
TAMPA, Fla. (AP) -- Ron Paul supporters are unhappy that Republican National Convention organizers aren't letting them throw a festival honoring the Texas congressman and presidential candidate the weekend before the gathering....

Bulgaria finds 'vampire' remains

BBC - News - Wed, 2025-05-21 23:33
Bulgarian archaeologists unearth two skeletons from the Middle Ages pierced through the chest with iron rods to supposedly keep them from turning into vampires.
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Investigator visits fatal Utah tanker crash site

SALT LAKE CITY — A National Transportation Safety Board investigator on Tuesday arrived at the scene of a deadly air tanker crash in Utah and began scouring the 600-yard debris field for clues about why the plane went down while battling a wildfire.

The investigator was expected to spend much ...

Bereaved walk among dead after Nigeria plane crash

AP - World News - Wed, 2025-05-21 23:33
LAGOS, Nigeria (AP) -- Mourners silently walked between rows of the dead from a plane crash in Nigeria that killed the 153 people aboard the airliner and others on the ground, peering into burned faces in hopes of claiming the remains of their loved ones on Tuesday....

Carrier defends itself over Nigeria plane crash

AP - World News - Wed, 2025-05-21 23:33
LAGOS, Nigeria (AP) -- A Nigerian airline whose airplane crashed in the country's largest city, killing 153 on board and more on the ground, defended itself Wednesday against growing public criticism, saying its own chief engineer died on the doomed flight....

Bereaved walk among dead after Nigeria plane crash

AP - World News - Wed, 2025-05-21 23:33
LAGOS, Nigeria (AP) -- Mourners silently walked between rows of the dead from a plane crash in Nigeria that killed the 153 people aboard the airliner and others on the ground, peering into burned faces in hopes of claiming the remains of their loved ones on Tuesday....

Bereaved walk among dead after Nigeria plane crash

AP - World News - Wed, 2025-05-21 23:33
LAGOS, Nigeria (AP) -- Mourners silently walked between rows of the dead from a plane crash in Nigeria that killed the 153 people aboard the airliner and others on the ground, peering into burned faces in hopes of claiming the remains of their loved ones on Tuesday....

Queen 'humbled' by Jubilee events

BBC - News - Wed, 2025-05-21 23:33
In a special message to the nation, the Queen says she has been "touched deeply" by seeing so many people celebrating her Diamond Jubilee together.
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Prop 8 may be Supreme Court-bound

CNN - Top Stories - Wed, 2025-05-21 23:33
The divisive issue of same-sex marriage in California may become another landmark case taken up by the U.S. Supreme Court after federal appeals court judges refused Tuesday to revisit an earlier ruling.
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Calif. gay-marriage ban headed to Supreme Court

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — The sponsors of California's same-sex marriage ban said Tuesday they plan to ask the U.S. Supreme Court to review a landmark appellate court ruling that struck down the law as unconstitutional.

Alliance Defense Fund lawyer Brian Raum said Proposition 8 backers "absolutely" would take the case to ...

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