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Sun, 05/12/2013 - 1:17pm
MADRID (AP) — Serena Williams kept the No. 1, and added No. 50.
Sun, 05/12/2013 - 1:08pm
PARIS (AP) — France has confirmed a second case of a deadly new respiratory virus related to SARS, authorities said Sunday, as they increased efforts to inform the public about how to avoid the illness and watch for its signs.
Sun, 05/12/2013 - 1:00pm
By Jonathon Burch ANTAKYA, Turkey (Reuters) - Hundreds of protesters took to the streets of the Turkish city of Antakya on Sunday, a day after bombs killed nearly 50 people in a nearby town as Syria's civil war spills into the region. Several hundred people, mostly leftist and nationalist demonstrators, marched through the center of the city no more than 50 km (30 miles) from the Syrian frontier, carrying banners and shouting anti-government slogans while onlookers cheered. ...
Sun, 05/12/2013 - 12:49pm
TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Signs on currency exchange shops in Tehran explained why the doors where temporarily shut: Waiting to see if former President Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani would seek to reclaim the office. On Sunday, the money changers reopened early amid a mini-surge in Iran's gasping economy after Rafsanjani joined the race.
Sun, 05/12/2013 - 12:47pm
JERUSALEM (AP) — A dozen senior church leaders in the Holy Land say Israeli police "ill-treated" clergy, including a Coptic Egyptian cleric, during Orthodox Easter services.
Sun, 05/12/2013 - 12:37pm
CHICAGO (AP) — U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg says she supports a woman's right to choose to have an abortion, but feels her predecessors' landmark Roe v. Wade ruling 40 years ago was too sweeping and gave abortion opponents a symbol to target.
Sun, 05/12/2013 - 12:23pm
BEIJING (AP) — Quentin Tarantino's violent slave-revenge movie "Django Unchained" returned to Chinese theaters on Sunday, about a month after it was pulled on opening day for unspecified "technical reasons."
Sun, 05/12/2013 - 12:21pm
BARCELONA, Spain (AP) — Fernando Alonso gave the home fans exactly the kind of daring and dominant drive they came to see. Keeping them celebrating at the end of the season might be a bit more difficult.
Sun, 05/12/2013 - 12:11pm
Spanish police snuck up on a British fugitive as he sunbathed, arresting him in a dramatic raid that even saw the suspect leap onto the roof of a nearby outhouse to try to get away.
Sun, 05/12/2013 - 12:04pm
SOFIA (Reuters) - Bulgarian center-right party GERB held the lead in a Sunday election prompted by widespread protests, exit polls showed, and would have first chance at forming a government. GERB, which resigned from office during protests against low living standards in February, had about 31 percent support and was set for roughly 97 seats in the 240 member parliament, according to polls by Alpha Research and Sova Harris agencies. The Socialists had 25-27 percent and were set for 85 seats. ...
Sun, 05/12/2013 - 11:58am
By Simon Gardner and Gabriel Stargardter MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Left crumpled in the gutter after an ill-fated visit to a seedy club in a rough part of Mexico City, the grandson of murdered U.S. civil rights leader Malcolm X lay dying engulfed in the stench of sewage and a blaring cacophony of Mariachi music. He was beaten to death early on Thursday morning, police say, in an ignominious end to a short, tormented life flecked with tragedy. ...
Sun, 05/12/2013 - 11:53am
WASHINGTON (AP) — Republicans said Sunday that the Internal Revenue Service's heightened scrutiny of conservative political groups was "chilling" and further eroded public trust in government.
Sun, 05/12/2013 - 11:33am
LONDON (AP) — An artwork by secretive graffiti artist Banksy that sparked controversy when it disappeared from the side of a north London store has been put up for sale in the U.K., months after it was yanked from the block in Miami.
Sun, 05/12/2013 - 11:25am
KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — Iranian border guards killed 10 Afghan migrants and wounded another eight when hundreds tried to illegally cross into Iran in search of work, Afghanistan's Interior Ministry said Sunday. Iran denied that.
Sun, 05/12/2013 - 11:25am
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama is praising Pakistanis for upholding what he calls their commitment to democratic rule by successfully completing parliamentary elections.
Sun, 05/12/2013 - 11:16am
RABAT, Morocco (AP) — Morocco's second largest political party has announced it is withdrawing from the Islamist-led government elected during the Arab Spring and leaving its fate up to the king, a party spokesman said Sunday.
Sun, 05/12/2013 - 11:15am
ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — Turkey's prime minister vowed Sunday his country won't be drawn into Syria's civil war, despite twin car bombings the government believes were carried out by a group of Turks with close ties to pro-government groups in Syria.
Sun, 05/12/2013 - 11:08am
JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel's military has grounded a fleet of high altitude surveillance drones after one was downed over the Mediterranean Sea.
Sun, 05/12/2013 - 11:00am
DHAKA, Bangladesh (AP) — Bangladesh's government plans to raise the minimum wage for garment workers, a Cabinet minister said Sunday, after the deaths of more than 1,100 people in the collapse of a factory building focused international attention on the textile industry's dismal pay and hazardous working conditions.
Sun, 05/12/2013 - 10:50am
MADRID (AP) — Rafael Nadal won his fifth title since returning from a knee injury by beating Stanislas Wawrinka 6-2, 6-4 Sunday for the Madrid Open championship.