Chelsea win the FA Cup for the seventh time after goals by Ramires and Didier Drogba sink Liverpool at Wembley.

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Chelsea 2-1 Liverpool

Perhaps it’s not surprising that the mayor of Takoma Park and four of six members of the City Council have pledged to go vegetarian, starting today, as part of Veg Week 2012 . The D.C. suburb, after all, has a long tradition of vegetarianism, a diet historically driven by the Seventh-day Adventists , who held sway over the town for decades. Read full article > >

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The politics of going vegetarian for a cause

Super League referee Thierry Alibert is suspended after allowing a try to be scored on the seventh tackle – for the second time this season.

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Referee suspended over try error

Great balls of fire — Jerry Lee Lewis is married again, this time to his cousin’s ex-wife. The 76-year-old rock ‘n’ roll pianist wed Judith Brown earlier this month in Natchez, Miss., making her his seventh wife, Lewis’s rep confirmed to CNN. Read full article > >

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Jerry Lee Lewis weds cousin’s ex-wife

KISSIMMEE, FLA. — Friday afternoon, the Washington Nationals waited until the seventh inning to register their first hit and slogged to another Grapefruit League loss. Their cleanup hitter remained back in Viera, prohibited from baseball activities. Their first baseman took at-bats in a minor league game. And their general manager found ample cause for optimism. Read full article > >

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Despite woes, Nationals General Manager Mike Rizzo remains optimistic

Real Madrid head the list of the richest football clubs in the world for the seventh year in a row, says a Deloitte survey.

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Real still top football rich list

Last month, the walls of the Libyan Embassy on the seventh floor of the Watergate office building were barren. Hazy penumbras of dirt showed where portraits of Moammar Gaddafi had hung. A lone travel poster touting a visit to the Roman ruins of Tripoli survived the purge of wall hangings after Libya’s revolution — and even that poster had had to be altered: Masking tape covered Gaddafi’s name for his country, the Great Socialist People’s Libyan Arab Jamahiriya, the last word of which meant “state of the masses.” Read full article > >

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Libyan Ambassador Aujali recalls serving under Gaddafi, sees promise ahead for country

As protests run into the seventh day.

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Egypt Appoints New P.M.

They met for the first time in the cold and the dark on Sunday morning with 26.2 miles to go. Carlos Evans was nervous. He’d never done a marathon before. Jimmy King, competing in his seventh Marine Corps Marathon, told him he’d be all right. He said he’d watch out for him. They were strangers brought together by the race and by circumstance. Both are 32 years old. Both served with the Marines in war. Both had been wounded. King lost his left leg in Iraq in 2004. Evans lost both legs and his left hand in Afghanistan last year. Read full article > >

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Two wounded warriors practice true ‘Semper Fi’ in Marine Corps Marathon

ST. LOUIS — The starting pitcher had carried the game all the way to the seventh inning, a rare luxury for the St. Louis Cardinals this postseason, and with a one-run lead and nine outs to go, the 46,406 red-clad faithful in attendance Wednesday night at Busch Stadium, home of the savviest fans in baseball, could practically pinch-manage the rest of Game 1 of the World Series for Tony La Russa. Read full article > >

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2011 World Series Game 1: St. Louis edges Texas Rangers led by Chris Carpenter

Under dim lights in a grand hall of the great Folger Shakespeare Library lies the “Wicked Bible,” called so because it omits one distinctly important word from the Seventh Commandment. It is a word with the power to prevent sin. “Thou shalt commit adultery,” the Wicked Bible commands. For this unfortunate typo, the printer of this 1631 edition of the King James Bible met with retribution. By order of the king, copies of the “Wicked Bible” were quickly gathered and burned. Its printer, Robert Barker, was chastised for stupidity. Read full article > >

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Folger Shakespeare Library celebrates 400th anniversary of King James Bible

US employment rose in April for the seventh month in a row but the overall unemployment rate has also risen.

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US employment up again in April

A fourth moorland fire breaks out in Lancashire, as crews enter their seventh day of tackling large blazes.

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Another moorland fire breaks out

Food prices around the world rose for the seventh consecutive month in January and will continue to do so, says a new report from the United Nations. The rise was driven by unpredictable weather patterns that have wreaked havoc on crops and made…

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Global Food Prices Skyrocket

A jittery market reacted to unpredictable weather and tight supplies with the seventh straight month of price increases, the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization said Thursday.

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Food Prices Worldwide Hit Record Levels, Fueled by Uncertainty, U.N. Says