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  • Retired UK lawmaker Leo Abse dies at 91 AP - Wed Aug 20, 3:30 PM ET

    LONDON - Leo Abse, a colorful Welsh politician who took a leading role in liberalizing laws on homosexuality and divorce, has died at age 91.

  • Publisher withdraws book after Muslim protests AP - Wed Aug 20, 1:56 PM ET

    BELGRADE, Serbia - A Serbian publisher says it has withdrawn a controversial book by American writer Sherry Jones because of protests from the local Islamic community.

  • Campaigning UK journalist dies of cancer at age 27 AP - Wed Aug 20, 12:53 PM ET

    LONDON - Adrian Sudbury, a young British journalist who blogged about his fight with cancer and campaigned for more bone marrow donations, died in his sleep Wednesday, his family said. He was 27.

  • Russian emergency workers help Georgian Zhenya Rusishvili, 86, to leave her village of Kekhvi, populated by ethnic Georgians, some 10 km (6.25 miles) north of Tskhinvali, capital of the breakaway Georgian province of South Ossetia, Wednesday, Aug. 20, 2008. On Wednesday, Russian emergency officials traveled to deserted Georgian villages in South Ossetia and evacuated elderly people, who had been unable to flee. The victims were taken to the central city of Gori where they were housed in a local kindergarten and Georgian officials would later attempt to get in touch with their relatives. (AP Photo/Dmitry Lovetsky)
    Russian government help slow to come, refugees say AP - Wed Aug 20, 12:37 PM ET

    BESLAN, Russia - Since she clutched her two children by the hands and fled the war in Georgia, Frosia Besayeva has found shelter, food and comfort in the house of a Russian family. But she said the Russian government was slow to help.

  • Canada extradites alleged Mafia boss to Italy AP - Wed Aug 20, 8:56 AM ET

    ROME - One of Italy's most-wanted criminals was extradited from Canada on Wednesday and locked in an Italian high-security prison, the Justice Ministry said.

  • Gorilla mother Gana carries her dead baby at the zoo in Muenster, western Germany, Wednesday, Aug. 20, 2008. The baby died on Aug. 16, but can only be recovered from the enclosure once the mourning mother leaves the corpse behind, zoo spokesperson Ilona Zuehlke said. (AP Photo/Frank Augstein)
    Mourning gorilla holds on to body of her baby AP - Wed Aug 20, 8:55 AM ET

    BERLIN - A gorilla at a zoo in the German city of Muenster is refusing to let go of her dead baby's body several days after it died of unknown causes.

  • Red Cross says staff heading to S. Ossetia capital AP - Wed Aug 20, 5:39 AM ET

    GENEVA - The Red Cross says that it is sending workers to the South Ossetian capital of Tskhinvali for the first time since the brief Russian-Georgian war broke out in the breakaway province earlier this month.

  • Russia says 64 soldiers dead in fight with Georgia AP - Wed Aug 20, 5:36 AM ET

    MOSCOW - A top Russian general says 64 of the country's soldiers were killed and 323 wounded in this month's fighting with Georgia.

  • Watchdog: BAA should sell 3 of its 7 UK airports AP - Wed Aug 20, 2:54 AM ET

    LONDON - Britain's competition watchdog says that airport operator BAA should sell three of its seven U.K. airports.

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