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UK elections end in coalitions

By Caitlin Ryan · Wednesday, May 12,2010 5:57 p.m.

Just last Thursday, citizens from the United Kingdom took to the polls, casting their votes in the 2010 election. But few would have expected the aftermath.

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Lufthansa, you have failed me

By Lindsey Erdody · Wednesday, May 12,2010 5:06 p.m.

Four weeks ago I heard about the Icelandic volcano Eyjafjallajokull delaying and canceling flights across Europe, but I didn’t worry — I had plenty of time. And I was right, until I arrived in Munich and found my flight to Florence, Italy, delayed and eventually canceled because Eyjafjallajokull had struck again, leaving volcanic ash clouds throughout northern Europe.

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Obama chooses Elena Kagan for Supreme Court nomination

By Ben Feller · Monday, May 10,2010 1:43 p.m.

President Barack Obama nominated Solicitor General Elena Kagan to the Supreme Court on Monday, declaring the former Harvard Law School dean “one of the nation’s foremost legal minds.” She would be the court’s youngest justice and give it three female members for the first time.

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Passion for futbol very much alive in Madrid

By Alex Farris · Sunday, May 9,2010 6:21 p.m.

Many Americans don’t care all that much about soccer. In fact, I didn’t either, until I took photos for the soccer beat for the IDS last semester. But they know of Real Madrid and FC Barcelona, of Cristiano Ronaldo and Lionel Messi, of the Spanish national team and their place in the upper echelon of world soccer. They may not know Spanish futbol. They may not follow it. But they respect it. They don’t know the half of it.

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Judge who struck down possible National Day of Prayer criticized

Thursday, May 6,2010 11:43 p.m.

In her ruling last month,  U.S. District Judge Barbara Crabb said the law creating the tradition observed Thursday is an unconstitutional call to religious action. She quickly became a magnet in the contentious debate over the role of religion in public life — denounced by Christian activists for overstepping but hailed as courageous by atheists, agnostics and non-Christians who feel excluded.

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Stocks fall during turmoil in Greece

By Associated Press · Thursday, May 6,2010 11:43 p.m.

The stock market had one of its most turbulent days in history as the Dow Jones industrials dropped almost 1,000 points in less than half an hour on fears that Greece’s debt problems could halt the global economic recovery.

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'Elephant Parade' in London hopes to promote awareness of endangered species

By Caitlin Ryan · Thursday, May 6,2010 11:40 p.m.

In 1986, residents of Zurich awoke to find their city covered in lion statues. In 1998, the animals struck again, and residents experienced “Cow Parade” for the first time as local artists decorated 800 fiberglass cow statues and placed them around the city as a public art project. Since then, the “Cow Parade” phenomenon has exploded worldwide, with exhibitions of a variety of different animals and themes seen around the world during the past couple of decades.

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Car bomb dud causes scare in Times Square

Sunday, May 2,2010 6:32 p.m.

Police found an “amateurish” but potentially powerful bomb that apparently began to detonate but did not explode in a smoking SUV in Times Square, authorities said Sunday. Thousands of tourists were cleared from the streets for 10 hours while the bomb was dismantled.

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What is Spain, really?

By Alex Farris · Friday, April 30,2010 12:26 a.m.

When I first wanted to study in Spain, way back when I was a junior in high school, I thought of the country as a far-away place full of good times, sun, flamenco and bullfights in the middle of the street.

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BP welcomes aid from military to cope with oil spill in Gulf of Mexico

Friday, April 30,2010 12:25 a.m.

An oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico that has become far worse than initially expected crept toward the coast Thursday as government officials offered help from the military to prevent a disaster that could destroy fragile marshlands along the shore.

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University heightens security for Ayers visit

Thursday, April 29,2010 12:31 a.m.

Security was heightened Wednesday at the University of Wyoming as the school prepared for a speech from William Ayers, the 1960s radical whose visit was blocked before a federal judge ruled the university must allow him to speak.

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Brown’s campaign could suffer after calling woman ‘bigoted’

Thursday, April 29,2010 12:30 a.m.

Brown made the first major flub of the country’s short campaign season Wednesday, caught on an open microphone calling a 65-year-old voter a “bigoted woman” after she pressed him on immigration during a public meeting.

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Attacker stabs 15 students, teacher during school day

Thursday, April 29,2010 12:29 a.m.

A teacher wielding a knife broke into a primary school in southern China and stabbed 15 students and a teacher Wednesday. The same day, another school attacker was executed for killing eight children last month, police and state media reported.

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Goldman Sachs exec: 'I did not mislead' investors

By Marcy Gordon and Tom Raum · Wednesday, April 28,2010 1:07 a.m.

Top Goldman Sachs officials defended their conduct in the financial crisis Tuesday, flatly disputing the government’s fraud allegations against the giant financial house. “I did not mislead investors,” insisted a trading executive at the heart of the government’s case.

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