Society

Family of woman in water overdose wins damages - 10/30/2009

SAN FRANCISCO - The family of a woman who died while taking part in a radio station water-drinking contest to win a Nintendo Wii was awarded more than 16.5 million dollars by a jury in California...

Dallas police gave tickets for not speaking English - 10/24/2009

CHICAGO - A Texas police chief apologized Friday after at least 39 people received traffic tickets because they couldn't speak English. "I was surprised and stunned that that would happen in the...

Canada says will not appeal polygamy case - 10/23/2009

VANCOUVER - Canada will not appeal a court ruling tossing out criminal charges against two men in polygamous religious sects, authorities in British Columbia said Thursday. Provincial Attorney...

Sexual dysfunction high in Hispanic women over 40: study - 10/22/2009

SANTIAGO- Sexual dysfunction affects more than half of menopausal Hispanic women over 40, an 11-nation study said Wednesday. The Latin American Network of Climacteric Research found that 56...

Ashkalis: Kosovo's forgotten minority suffer in misery - 10/21/2009

DUBRAVE, Pierre Glachant- Kosovo may have won recognition in its David vs. Goliath battle for independence from Serbia, but its own Ashkali minority live forgotten in squalor and misery in a daily...

Rio police on alert after deadly drug violence - 10/19/2009

RIO DE JANEIRO- Brazil deployed an extra 4,500 police Sunday as deadly clashes with drug traffickers brought down a police helicopter and left 17 people dead over the weekend in 2016 Olympics host...

Policemen hurt in green protest at British power station - 10/18/2009

NOTTINGHAM- Three police officers were taken to hospital Saturday during a protest by environmental campaigners at one of Britain's biggest coal-fired power stations, police said. The officers,...

Almost half of US women are primary breadwinners: poll - 10/16/2009

WASHINGTON - Women now make up nearly half of the US workforce, compared to the third they constituted 40 years ago, and the vast majority of Americans think this is a good thing, according to a Time...

Discreet sex education breaks Indian taboo - 10/15/2009

NEW DELHI, Rupam Jain Nair - In a Delhi classroom, 40 sheepish girls and boys stare silently at a sketch of a couple making love. The sex education lesson for 15-year-olds is not part of India's...

Swedish women sue varsity over affirmative action - 10/15/2009

STOCKHOLM - A group of Swedish women filed a class-action lawsuit against a university Wednesday because it gave under-represented male students admissions priority, their lawyer said. "These...
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