In the last decade, before Bo Xilai’s downfall, his family, including his and his wife’s siblings, quietly amassed a fortune estimated at more than $160 million.

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Bo Xilai’s Relatives’ Wealth Is Under Scrutiny

Didn’t trust suspect accused of murdering her family members.

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Jennifer Hudson Gives Teary Testimony

Annabel Clark documented a pair of conjoined twins for a project that is not about a physical bond, but the nature of a very intimate relationship.

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Lens Blog: Photographs of Conjoined Twins by Annabel Clark

The multi-millionaire owner of a County Durham company announces he is to leave the company to benefit the community rather than his family.

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Millionaire ‘gives business away’

I take a back seat to no one when it comes to loving dogs. For that matter, my dog takes a back seat to no one. Ollie rides shotgun. Thus, the story of Seamus, the Romneys’ dog who famously rode atop the family car in a crate en route to vacation (to Ontario, Canada, 12 hours away) — and suffered acute gastrointestinal inconvenience, requiring a mid-trip hose-down — has caused me considerable distress. I know Mitt and Ann Romney to be lovely people who undoubtedly adored their dog, but how does one make this event seem less awful? Read full article > >

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Presidential race has really gone to the dogs

Emilee Neagle and her family had just 26 minutes to leave their house the night a tornado hit her town of Woodward, Oklahoma.

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Woman finds dog, ring in tornado rubble

In September of 2009 a 15-year-old named Sadaullah was having an Iftar meal with his family in north-western Pakistan when missiles hit his grandfather’s house, killing four of his relatives and leaving him unconscious.

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The Drone War in Pakistan, Part II

In trial of man accused of killing her family members.

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Jennifer Hudson to Take Witness Stand

Thomas Kinkade, whose paintings and prints of cozy scenes of domestic contentment made him perhaps the most popular artist of our time, died April 6 at his home in Los Gatos, Calif. He was 54. A statement released by his family did not specify a cause of death. Read full article > >

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Thomas Kinkade, wildly successful artist of cozy scenes, dies at 54

The US painter Thomas Kinkade, best known for his pictures of idyllic landscapes, has died at the age of 54, his family say.

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Artist Thomas Kinkade dies at 54

The move is the latest in a string of resignations as his family’s newspaper outpost in Britain becomes ever more deeply mired in a scandal over its reporting practices and ethics.

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James Murdoch Steps Down From British Broadcaster

Testimony to Pakistani investigators by Osama Bin Laden’s youngest wife offered the most detailed account yet of the family’s life on the run preceding the raid in May 2011 that killed the Al Qaeda leader.

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On Run, Bin Laden Had 4 Children and 5 Houses, a Wife Says

Bo Xilai, the politician at the centre of China’s biggest political scandal in years, is the victim of a smear campaign, a source close to his family tells the BBC.

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Bo scandal claims ‘preposterous’

The EU imposes a travel ban and an asset freeze on Asma al-Assad, the British-born wife of Syrian leader Bashar, and other family members.

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EU slaps sanctions on Assad wife

The Supreme Court divided along ideological lines Tuesday in ruling that states may not be sued by their employees for illegally denying them medical leave. States are generally immune from lawsuits seeking monetary damages, and the court’s conservative majority said in a 5 to 4 decision that the restriction should apply when the issue at stake is the sick-leave provisions in the federal Family and Medical Leave Act. Read full article > >

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Supreme Court rules that states can’t be sued for denying workers medical leave