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Mentally impaired duo freed after 30 years in US prison - 09/03/2014

WASHINGTON- Two mentally impaired half-brothers were freed Tuesday after serving three decades in a United States prison for the rape and murder of a child that they did not commit. A judge in...

Parents of tumour boy held in Spain as sympathy grows - 09/02/2014

MADRID- A Spanish judge on Monday extended the detention of a British couple arrested for taking their seriously ill son out of a hospital in England without medical consent, as sympathy for their...

Child abuse victims in British town claim compensation - 08/28/2014

LONDON- A string of child abuse victims in a northern English town have launched claims for compensation, lawyers said Wednesday, as outrage grew in Britain that officials failed to stop 16 years of...

Sistine Chapel choir to sing in Asia, but not China - 08/26/2014

VATICAN CITY- The Sistine Chapel choir will perform in Hong Kong for the first time in September but will not visit mainland China despite efforts to improve the rocky relations between Beijing and...

Amish girls abducted with intent to 'victimize' - 08/17/2014

NEW YORK- A US couple arrested and charged with kidnapping two Amish sisters intended to "victimize" the girls after snatching them from their roadside produce stand, authorities said Saturday. The...

Giving birth under fire in a Donetsk hospital cellar - 08/12/2014

DONETSK, Anna Malpas- Just a pink cap was visible as Larisa held her daughter Yeva swathed in a blanket on Sunday, sitting in the cellar of Donetsk's largest maternity hospital, where she gave birth...

Australian couple in Thai baby scandal want boy back - 08/11/2014

PERTH- An Australian couple at the centre of a Thai surrogate scandal Sunday denied they deliberately abandoned their baby son because he had Down's syndrome and said they would fight to get him...

Fears of Australia surrogacy ban over abandoned Down Syndrome baby - 08/03/2014

SYDNEY- Reports that an Australian couple abandoned a baby with his surrogate mother in Thailand because he has Down Syndrome have raised fears Australia will ban international surrogacy, a support...

Tutu latest Anglican to support assisted suicide - 07/14/2014

LONDON- South Africa's Anglican archbishop emeritus Desmond Tutu on Sunday said he supported assisted dying for the terminally ill, the day after the Church's former leader backed a bill to legalise...

Women commissioners call for '10 or more' in EU top jobs - 07/11/2014

BRUSSELS- The women of the powerful European Commission, which steps down in autumn, launched a campaign on Thursday to get "10 or more" female commissioners named to the next EU executive. "Female...
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