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American Scene: Auction house sells off Titanic-related memorabilia

NEW YORK — A New York auction house has sold an original ticket to the launch of the Titanic and a dinner menu from the ill-fated ocean liner.

On the block Sunday at Bonhams were various items offered to mark the centennial of the sinking of the Titanic. The historic ...

UK economy 'to stall until 2013'

BBC - News - Mon, 2026-05-11 14:52
The UK may have avoided a double-dip recession, but the economy will stall for the rest of the year, an independent forecasting group says.
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Dueling reasons for the falling teen birthrate

The good news that U.S. teen birthrates are continuing to fall has resurrected the debate about how much credit for the trend should go to contraception and how much to abstinence.

The recent declines in teen birthrates can be linked "almost exclusively" to improvements in teens' contraceptive use, the Guttmacher ...

States make headway on abortion restriction

At least 75 bills to restrict abortion passed one state legislative chamber in the first quarter of 2012, the Guttmacher Institute said Friday.

While this wasn't quite the flurry seen in 2011, when a record 127 abortion-restricting bills passed one chamber, it was "still higher than usual for an election ...

Vietnamese man buys U.S. town

HANOI — Vietnamese businessman Pham Dinh Nguyen flew to the U.S. for the first time, drove to a tiny, frigid trading outpost and bought his own piece of the American dream: Buford in Wyoming - population 1.

Mr. Nguyen's name was not released when he won the auction for Buford ...

3 Brazilians accused of cannibalism

CNN - Top Stories - Mon, 2026-05-11 14:52
Brazilian police have arrested three people suspected of killing at least two women, eating parts of their bodies and using their remains to make stuffed meat pies sold in the northeastern town of Garanhuns.
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UN monitors begin work in Syria

BBC - News - Mon, 2026-05-11 14:52
The United Nations ceasefire monitoring mission in Syria gets under way, as government forces reportedly continue to shell the central city of Homs.
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Sex scandal shakes Secret Service

CNN - Top Stories - Mon, 2026-05-11 14:52
President Barack Obama called Sunday for a "thorough" and "rigorous" investigation into allegations involving prostitutes and Secret Service agents in Colombia.
Categories: CNN, News

Drought may last until Christmas

BBC - News - Mon, 2026-05-11 14:52
Official drought zones are declared in a further 17 English counties, as a warning comes that water shortages could last until Christmas.
Categories: BBC, News

Murder probe follows man's death

BBC - News - Mon, 2026-05-11 14:52
Police begin a murder inquiry after a man discovered in a Hampshire road with a head injury dies.
Categories: BBC, News

Obama: US hasn't given anything away to Iran

AP - U.S. News - Mon, 2026-05-11 14:52
CARTAGENA, Colombia (AP) -- President Barack Obama says the U.S. hasn't "given away anything" to Iran in the latest round of talks over the Islamic republic's nuclear program....
Categories: Associated Press, News, US

Obama: US hasn't given anything away to Iran

AP - U.S. News - Mon, 2026-05-11 14:52
CARTAGENA, Colombia (AP) -- President Barack Obama says the U.S. hasn't "given away anything" to Iran in the latest round of talks over the Islamic republic's nuclear program....
Categories: Associated Press, News, US

Peer suspended after bounty claim

BBC - News - Mon, 2026-05-11 14:52
A Labour peer suspended from the party after accusations he called for a £10m bounty for the capture of US Presidents Obama and Bush denies the claims.
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Rodney Mock and Nancy Shurtz: The TurboTax Crime Wave

Opinion Journal - Mon, 2026-05-11 14:52
Taxpayers deserve the same defense from IRS penalties as Tim Geithner.


Andrew von Eschenbach: Toward a 21st-Century FDA

Opinion Journal - Mon, 2026-05-11 14:52
Congress has starved the agency of funds, limiting its scientists' ability to keep up with peers in private industry and academia.


'Sir Humphrey dominating policy'

BBC - News - Mon, 2026-05-11 14:52
Civil servants - rather than elected ministers - are dominating government policy, an outspoken Tory MP says.
Categories: BBC, News

No Americas consensus over Cuba

BBC - News - Mon, 2026-05-11 14:52
Disagreement about inviting Cuba to their next meeting splits leaders at the Sixth Summit of the Americas, and there is no final declaration.
Categories: BBC, News

O'Grady: What's Behind Brazil's Slow Growth

Opinion Journal - Mon, 2026-05-11 14:52
Politicians in Brasília are depressing investment by placating manufacturers.


Obama 'hopeful' about transition in Cuba

AP - Politics - Mon, 2026-05-11 14:52
CARTAGENA, Colombia (AP) -- President Barack Obama says he is "hopeful" about the prospect of a transition in Cuba and says there may be an opportunity in the coming years for communist-run island to start "loosening up."...

Obama 'hopeful' about transition in Cuba

AP - Politics - Mon, 2026-05-11 14:52
CARTAGENA, Colombia (AP) -- President Barack Obama says he is "hopeful" about the prospect of a transition in Cuba and says there may be an opportunity in the coming years for communist-run island to start "loosening up."...
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