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This is an undated handout photo issued by Random House of British novelist Tom Sharpe. Sharpe, who satirized everything from apartheid to academe in a series of best-sellers, has died at the age of 85. Sharpe's Spanish publisher, Anagrama, said he died early Thursday June 6, 2013in the Catalan town where he lived. (AP Photo/Susan Sandon/Random House/PA) NO ARCHIVE NO SALES

Comic novelist Tom Sharpe dies at 85

Tom Sharpe was aptly named, a writer who turned a razor-edged eye for absurdity on everything from the racism of apartheid to the squabbles of academia. The British writer behind a string of comic novels including the campus classic "Porterhouse Blue" has died at 85. Sharpe's Spanish publisher, Anagrama, said ...

  • Updated: 12:01 p.m. Thursday, June 6, 2013
This undated booking mug shot released by Warrensburg Police Department shows Ziyad Abid, a former University of Central Missouri student from Saudi Arabia accused of paying his roommate to kill a local bar owner. Abid is still sitting in a jail cell nearly two months after a Missouri judge refused $2 million sent by the Saudi Government to cover his bond. (AP Photo/Warrensburg Police Department)

Saudi remains behind bars after $2M bond posted

Ziyad Abid was a Missouri college student aspiring to become a pilot like his father back home in Saudi Arabia when he was accused of paying his roommate to kill a local bar owner. The judge set bond at $2 million, completely out of reach for his family — but ...

  • Updated: 9:15 p.m. Tuesday, June 4, 2013
New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo, left, talks with attorney Sarah Weddington, who argued Roe vs. Wade, after a news conference in the Red Room at the Capitol on Tuesday, June 4, 2013, in Albany, N.Y. Cuomo released a bill Tuesday that details his women's rights proposal for the first time since he announced the initiative six months ago. (AP Photo/Mike Groll)

NY gov's women's rights bill faces abortion fight

Gov. Andrew Cuomo's 10-point proposal calling for women's rights protections from the work place to the shadowy world of human trafficking was endorsed by several women's advocates Tuesday, but faces strong opposition in the Senate over its abortion provisions. Cuomo released the bill Tuesday, detailing his women's rights proposal for ...

  • Updated: 7:01 p.m. Tuesday, June 4, 2013
FILE - In this Sept. 7, 2010 file photo, Charice, a cast member in "Glee," arrives at the television show's second season premiere in Los Angeles. The Filipino singer, who played the role of an exchange student in “Glee,” has come out in an emotional TV interview in which she apologized to her mother and brother. The 21-year-old said on a talk show on ABS-CBN TV Sunday, June 2, 2013, that she wants to apologize to those who do not understand and cannot accept her. (AP Photo/Chris Pizzello, File)

Charice comes out as lesbian, apologizes to family

Charice Pempengco, a Filipino singer who played an exchange student in "Glee," says she's a lesbian and has apologized to her family in an emotional TV interview. The 21-year-old said on Sunday's talk show on ABS-CBN TV that she wants to apologize to those who do not understand and cannot ...

  • Updated: 12:03 p.m. Tuesday, June 4, 2013
New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo speaks during a Tax-Free New York meeting on Monday, June 3, 2013, in Albany, N.Y. Cuomo is scheduled to make his last major push as early as Tuesday to protect and expand the availability of late-term abortions, even as opposition strengthens in the Senate. Cuomo drew swift opposition in January when he issued a rallying cry to late-term expand abortion on demand. (AP Photo/Mike Groll)

Cuomo to push his abortion proposal amid obstacles

Gov. Andrew Cuomo is scheduled to begin his last major push Tuesday for his proposal to strengthen abortion rights even as Senate opposition builds. Cuomo drew swift opposition in January after he issued his rousing, repeated battle cry of: "Because it's her body, it's her choice!" in his State of ...

  • Updated: 7:57 p.m. Monday, June 3, 2013
In this Wednesday, May 15, 2013 photo, South Korean movie director Kim Jho Gwangsoo, left, kisses with his partner Dave Kim during a news conference for their marriage in Seoul, South Korea. Movie director Kim surprised many in May, 2013, by announcing he will symbolically tie the knot with his longtime male partner Sept. 7, in the highest-profile ceremony of its kind ever in South Korea. He and Dave Kim envision a massive public event in Seoul with guests honoring their relations by donating money to build a center for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people. (AP Photo/Yonhap, Yu Yong-suk) KOREA OUT

SKorea's gay film maker in news over wedding plans

The first time a South Korean celebrity announced he was gay, in 2000, the reaction was quick and without empathy. Popular actor and entertainer Hong Suk-chon was banished from television and radio programs for three years, and he said in a talk-show interview this year that he regrets coming out. ...

  • Updated: 6:20 a.m. Saturday, June 1, 2013
ADVANCE FOR USE SATURDAY, JUNE 1 AND THEREAFTER - A display case in the Caterpillar Visitors Center in Peoria, Ill., seen May 14, 2013, honors Bradley University founder Lydia Bradley. Ocearch, the ocean-going research team backed by Caterpillar Inc., recently named a fish "Lydia." The Ocearch research team uses tracking devices to study the behavior of sharks in order to learn how to best protect what he called the "Lion of the Ocean." (AP Photo/Journal Star, Fred Zwicky)

SPOTLIGHT: Researchers teach lessons about sharks

Chris Fischer wants to change the background music that people think of when they see shark footage from the "Jaws" theme to Disney's "Under the Sea." Along with music, the expedition leader of Ocearch, the ocean-going research team backed by Caterpillar Inc. also wants to change the conversation when it ...

  • Updated: 5:20 p.m. Thursday, May 30, 2013

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FILE - This 1992 file photo shows Rev. Andrew Greeley, an outspoken Roman Catholic priest, prolific best-selling novelist and Chicago newspaper columnist whose career spanned five decades. His longtime publicist said that Greeley died Wednesday, May 29, 2013, at his home in Chicago. He was 85. (AP Photo/File)

Best-selling author, outspoken Rev. Greeley dies

The Rev. Andrew Greeley was, it seems, always writing. At home on a typewriter, later on a computer, then on a plane with a laptop and even in his car dictating into a tape recorder as he drove. By the time he finished, the outspoken Roman Catholic priest and Chicago ...

  • Updated: 4:00 p.m. Thursday, May 30, 2013
American actor and activist Danny Glover, left, reacts with South African President Jacob Zuma after a meeting in Cape Town, South Africa, Wednesday, May 29, 2013. Danny Glover made a courtesy call to South African President Jacob Zuma as part of his visit, to South Africa as a delegation member, of the United Automobile Workers Union of America. (AP Photo/Schalk van Zuydam)

Danny Glover joins protest in South Africa

Hollywood actor Danny Glover has made an appearance at a union protest in downtown Johannesburg. Glover, also a labor rights activist, is in South Africa as part of a trade union delegation from the United States that seeks international support for auto workers in Canton, Mississippi. The workers want to ...

  • Updated: 10:37 a.m. Thursday, May 30, 2013
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