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By , on May 19th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> It is a first for the conservative Muslim kingdom where women’s sports are severely restricted, her proud father said. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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The widow of former KGB spy Alexander Litvinenko calls for the inquest into his death to be abandoned and replaced with a public inquiry.
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The education secretary is like a “fanatical personal trainer” who urges schools to jump higher and run faster, a head teachers’ leader is to say.
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By By JAVIER C. HERNANDEZ and AL BAKER, on May 18th, 2013 Dennis M. Walcott, in a speech to administrators, will defend Michael R. Bloomberg’s record on issues like charter schools against harsh campaign criticism from Democrats.
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By , on May 17th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> A mother whose four-year-old daughter had been abducted chased the suspect down and crashed her vehicle into his car, leading to his arrest, police said. The girl was playing in her yard in Albuquerque, New Mexico, at about 6.30pm on Wednesday when a group of teenagers saw the kidnapping and ran to alert the girl’s mother, police said. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 17th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> The dire manners and “uncivilised behaviour” of some of its tourists are harming China’s image overseas, a top official said. Vice-Premier Wang Yang singled out “talking loudly in public places, jay-walking, spitting and wilfully carving characters on items in scenic zones”. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 17th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> The dire manners and “uncivilised behaviour” of some Chinese tourists abroad are harming the country’s image, said a top official who lamented their poor “quality and breeding”, according to state-run media. Wang Yang, one of China’s four vice premiers, singled out for condemnation “talking loudly in public places, jay-walking, spitting and willfully carving characters on items in scenic zones”. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 17th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Almost two-thirds of Europe’s lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community are still afraid to show their sexuality in public and most feel discriminated against, an EU report said on Friday, the International Day Against Homophobia. “Fear, isolation and discrimination are everyday phenomena for the LGBT community in Europe,” the director of the European Union’s Agency for Fundamental Rights (FRA), Morten Kjaerum, wrote in the report. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 17th, 2013 
The actor Paul Shane, famous for starring in the 1980s BBC sitcom Hi-de-Hi!, has died, his agent has confirmed.
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By , on May 17th, 2013 
A quarter of gay people surveyed in a major EU poll say they have been subjected to attacks or violent threats in the past five years.
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By , on May 17th, 2013 
Analysis suggests schools are facing an uphill battle to recruit head teachers, with one in four having to re-advertise jobs.
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By , on May 17th, 2013 
Graduates on a new fast-track scheme for trainee social workers will co-handle caseloads after just five weeks of intensive initial training.
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By , on May 17th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> China’s television regulator has ordered a crack down on dramas about the country’s battles with Japan during and before World War II and demanded they be more serious, state media said on Friday, following viewer complaints about ludicrous storylines Ties have been shadowed for years by what Beijing says has been Tokyo’s refusal to admit to wartime atrocities committed by Japanese soldiers in the country between 1937 and 1945, something taught to every Chinese school child and a staple of television dramas. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 17th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> The cause of a fire that triggered a massive explosion at a West, Texas fertiliser plant has been ruled undetermined, and investigators have not eliminated the possibility that the fire was set intentionally, state and federal officials said on Thursday. Robert Champion, a special agent in charge at the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, said that while authorities could not rule out arson, they also could not eliminate the plant’s electrical system or a golf cart at the plant as potential causes. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 16th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> New York’s Columbia University is seeking to change the terms of a 93-year-old trust earmarked for white students from Iowa. The Lydia C. Roberts Graduate Fellowship stipulates that money be given only to “a person of the Caucasian race” from Iowa. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 16th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Cyclone Mahasen weakened late yesterday into a tropical storm, causing far less damage than had been feared as it passed over coastal Bangladesh and spared Myanmar almost entirely. At least 18 deaths related to Mahasen were reported in Bangladesh, Myanmar and Sri Lanka, but officials had prepared for a far greater storm. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 16th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> The mainland’s one-child policy may have played a key role in a tragedy involving a Henan teenager who allegedly hired hitmen to help him kill his father and sister on Sunday. Gao Tianfeng, a 49-year-old member of the judicial committee of the Intermediate People’s Court of Zhoukou city, and his 28-year-old daughter were killed inside their home in the city. Police identified 18-year-old Gao Weisheng and two hitmen as the suspects and they were detained. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 16th, 2013 
BP appeals to Prime Minister David Cameron to intervene over the escalating compensation costs of the Gulf of Mexico oil disaster.
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By , on May 16th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Hainan police and medical experts said on Thursday that a medical examination found the girls’ hymens still “intact”, the China Daily reported. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 16th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> The outer bands of Cyclone Mahasen struck the southern coast of Bangladesh on Thursday, lashing remote fishing villages with heavy rain and fierce winds that flattened mud and straw huts and forced the evacuation of more than one million people. The eye of the storm was expected to reach land Thursday evening, but at least 18 deaths related to Mahasen already have been reported in Bangladesh, Myanmar and Sri Lanka. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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