When Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador lost the presidential election by a sliver of a percent in July 2006, he cried fraud. His supporters took to the streets, and the most fervent blocked the capital city’s major boulevard for weeks. Read full article > >

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Lopez Obrador tries again in Mexico

Iran is expanding the capacity of its controversial underground nuclear facility , a U.N. report said Friday, as its leaders move to increase production of a more purified form of enriched uranium in defiance of Western demands for a freeze. Read full article > >

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We’ve been hiking a narrow canyon for nearly half an hour, hemmed in by huge sunset-colored cliffs, and the suspense is killing me. Where’s Petra?  “It’s becoming clear why it was lost for so long,” quips one of my fellow travelers to the ancient Middle Eastern city. Read full article > >

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Petra, Jordan’s famous city of stone, faces a preservation struggle

We’ve been hiking a narrow canyon for nearly half an hour, hemmed in by huge sunset-colored cliffs, and the suspense is killing me. Where’s Petra?  “It’s becoming clear why it was lost for so long,” quips one of my fellow travelers to the ancient Middle Eastern city. Read full article > >

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Petra, Jordan’s famous city of stone, faces a preservation struggle

During the past decade, Washington has become a magnet for ambitious 20-somethings . Not only does the city offer good jobs and better-than-average public transit, it also boasts food trucks and, of course, cupcake shops. Read full article > >

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D.C.’s growth is fueled by 20-somethings. Can the city grow up with them?

In the late 1990s, a crew of young video-game designers found themselves worried that their latest project was going to be a flop. In the new game, players were supposed to take on the role of police officers, chasing down thugs across the streets of a small virtual city. Technically, the software worked well enough, everyone on the team agreed, but there was still one little problem: The game was a yawner. Read full article > >

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David Kushner’s ‘Jacked: The Outlaw Story of Grand Theft Auto’

PHILADELPHIA – When Mitt Romney came to an inner-city charter school here Thursday to promote his new education agenda , he received something of a history lecture about the persecution of blacks in America and the struggles of African American children to meet the academic achievements of their white counterparts. Read full article > >

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Romney visits inner-city charter school in Philadelphia in outreach to black voters

New York City police say they are holding a suspect in connection with the disappearance of local six-year-old boy Etan Patz in 1979.

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Suspect ‘detained in Patz death’

Just a few decades back, marathons were small, obscure races run by a handful of hard-core zealots, nearly all of them men. The idea of big-city mega-races that attract tens of thousands of participants and millions of spectators had not even been conceived. Read full article > >

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Ultramarathon runners hope to raise their profile, and their prize money

City council votes to phase them out over the next year.

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L.A. Prohibits Plastic Bags

Liverpool’s Sea Odyssey street theatre event was the “most successful event in the city’s history”, says Mayor Joe Anderson.

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Giants ‘generated £32m for city’

Thousands of demonstrators in the western Mexican city of Guadalajara demand an end to the drug-related violence which has been on the rise in the city.

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Mexicans march for more security

Beijing’s city government has decreed that no public toilet should have more than two flies flying around at any time.

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While you're frying up some eggs and bacon, we're cooking up something else: a way to celebrate today's food holiday. Pull out all the stops – May 23 is National Taffy Day ! One of America’s oldest candies has a mildly misleading name – there’s actually no salt water in taffy. Rumor has it, this common misconception started after a candy company on Atlantic City’s boardwalk flooded with sea water. All the candy maker had left to sell was, quite literally, salt-water soaked taffy. The name stuck, much like the candy sticks to your teeth. It’s not certain who started making this chewy treat, but most credit New Jersey native Joseph Fralinger with popularizing it. Humble beginnings of molasses and vanilla flavors have exploded into almost every flavor imaginable. The candy is made my melting sugar, water, butter and some stabilizers (like cornstarch) and then pulling the final product into long strands. Pulling the taffy aerates it which gives the sticky treat its chewiness and a lustrous shine.

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National taffy day

The monkey population of Delhi has grown large and aggressive, overwhelming the city’s efforts to control it, but Hindu tradition calls for feeding the monkeys twice a week.

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Fed by Indians, Monkeys Overwhelm Delhi