Thursday, April 26, 2012

India child bride annuls marriage

India child bride annuls marriage


India child bride annuls marriage

Posted: 26 Apr 2012 07:43 AM PDT

A teen in India who learned she had been married as a one-year-old baby gets the illegal marriage annulled.

Helping Chernobyl's kids

Posted: 26 Apr 2012 06:05 AM PDT

The Chernobyl nuclear disaster happened 26 years ago this week. Today there aren't many more definitive answers than there were then, to the question of how exactly Chernobyl has affected the lives, not just of those who lived through it, but of subsequent generations still living in these 'contaminated' areas.

Stolen babies scandal haunts Spain

Posted: 26 Apr 2012 04:16 AM PDT

Sister Maria Gomez is an 87-year-old Catholic nun. This month, she appeared in a Spanish court escorted by police. She is accused of snatching an infant from her birth mother and putting the child up for an illegal adoption in 1982.

Dalai Lama: World belongs to 'humanity,' not leaders

Posted: 26 Apr 2012 04:56 AM PDT

The Dalai Lama says he supports the principles behind Arab Spring protests.

Up close with Kenya's great cats

Posted: 26 Apr 2012 06:07 AM PDT

Filmmaker Keith Scholey has a PhD in zoology and three decades of experience filming and photographing wildlife. Yet when it came to predicting the behavior of the lions and cheetahs of Kenya's Maasai Mara Nature Reserve, all that proved of little use.

Author: U.S. avoiding Syria slaughter

Posted: 26 Apr 2012 09:30 AM PDT

For 13 months, violence has raged in Syria between President Bashar al-Assad's forces and the opposition in a lopsided battle that has seen thousands killed amid a number of international attempts to broker a peace deal.

Syrian rebels: What cease-fire?

Posted: 26 Apr 2012 09:31 AM PDT

CNN's Arwa Damon reports that rebels in Syria have no faith in the U.N. arranged cease-fire.

Stolen babies scandal haunts Spain

Posted: 26 Apr 2012 04:16 AM PDT

Sister Maria Gomez is an 87-year-old Catholic nun. This month, she appeared in a Spanish court escorted by police. She is accused of snatching an infant from her birth mother and putting the child up for an illegal adoption in 1982.

Deadly rocket attack prompts call for U.N. action in Syria

Posted: 26 Apr 2012 10:25 AM PDT

In one of the single deadliest incidents in the Syrian conflict, a military rocket attack killed more than 70 people in the flashpoint city of Hama, an activist told CNN on Thursday.

Author: U.S. averting gaze from Syria slaughter

Posted: 26 Apr 2012 09:30 AM PDT

For 13 months, violence has raged in Syria between President Bashar al-Assad's forces and the opposition in a lopsided battle that has seen thousands killed amid a number of international attempts to broker a peace deal.

Report: Secret Service involved in second prostitution scandal

Posted: 26 Apr 2012 09:54 AM PDT

A day after U.S. lawmakers were briefed on an alleged prostitution scandal in Colombia involving Secret Service members, a report emerged Thursday of similar allegations, this time in El Salvador.

Court: Taylor guilty of aiding rebels who raped, killed

Posted: 26 Apr 2012 10:11 AM PDT

An international tribunal found former Liberian President Charles Taylor guilty of aiding and abetting rebels who raped, killed and mutilated civilians in neighboring Sierra Leone, the first verdict against an African head of state in a world court.

Pakistani prime minister avoids prison time

Posted: 26 Apr 2012 07:44 AM PDT

The Pakistani Supreme Court is expected Thursday to announce its verdict in the contempt case against Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani.

Opinion: Why Mexican immigration has stopped

Posted: 26 Apr 2012 07:43 AM PDT

Jeffrey Passel and D'Vera Cohn say it seemed inconceivable that the 40-year influx of millions of Mexicans to the U.S. would stop. But it has.

Married Dominican beauty queen must return crown

Posted: 26 Apr 2012 05:42 AM PDT

Officials are forcing the 25-year-old model who won the Dominican Republic's top beauty pageant to hand over her crown, saying she violated contest rules when she hid her marriage.

Tokyo court acquits 'Shadow Shogun'

Posted: 26 Apr 2012 05:55 AM PDT

A Japanese court on Thursday found one of the country's most influential politicians not guilty of participating in a funding scandal, reconfiguring the balance of power in the governing party.

Bayern to face Chelsea in final

Posted: 26 Apr 2012 05:49 AM PDT

Bayern Munich will enjoy home advantage when they play Chelsea in the European Champions League final after defeating Real Madrid at the Santiago Bernabeu following a dramatic penalty shoot out.

Chavez returns from treatment

Posted: 26 Apr 2012 05:39 AM PDT

Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez said Wednesday that he is returning home after cancer treatment in Cuba.

Mexico investigates Wal-Mart permits

Posted: 26 Apr 2012 02:34 AM PDT

Mexican authorities have opened an investigation into permits issued to Wal-Mart in light of allegations that the retail giant bribed officials in Mexico to speed up store construction.

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