Nobel Prize winning poet Seamus Heaney dies aged 74
Irish writer and poet Seamus Heaney, who won the 1995 Nobel Prize in Literature, died Friday at the ...North Korea withdraws invite for US envoy
The U.S. State Department says North Korea has rescinded its invitation for a senior U.S. envoy to travel to Pyongyang ...Saudi Arabia outlaws domestic abuse
Saudi Arabia has adopted a law that criminalises domestic violence, usually targeting women and children, in a decision hailed by ...US still seeking international coalition against Syria
The United States is still seeking an "international coalition" in response to Syria\'s alleged use of chemical weapons, despite a ...UK PM Cameron loses vote on military action over Syria
British Prime Minister David Cameron has lost his parliamentary vote calling for military action over Syria "in principle".Egypt arrests senior Muslim Brotherhood member Beltagi
Egyptian police arrested senior Muslim Brotherhood politician Mohamed al-Beltagi and a former Islamist government minister on Thursday, the interior ministry ...The American Jobs Crisis
On any given day, Congress debates cutting entitlement programs versus strengthening them. Programs such as food ...UN says chemical inspection team to leave Syria Saturday
U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said Thursday that U.N. experts seeking to collect evidence from an apparent chemical attack in Syria ...Life on Earth ‘may have begun on Mars’
Life on Earth may have started on Mars and been blasted onto our planet by meteorites or volcanic eruptions, a ...Wed gay couples win U.S. marriage tax benefits nationwide
All married, same-sex couples in the U.S. will receive federal tax benefits previously given to just heterosexual couples, the Obama ...
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