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3 new foreign mystery novels that are worth your travel time
Craving a foreign excursion? Try the next best thing – one of these mystery novels set in far-away lands.
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Isabella Stewart Gardner: 5 books about the world's most audacious art theft
These five books – fiction and nonfiction – share a connection to the notorious March 18, 1990, theft of 13 masterworks from Boston's Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum.
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'Never Look a Polar Bear in the Eye': 5 stories from a family's time near the Arctic
Zac Unger temporarily moved his family to Churchill, Manitoba, to experience life in the polar bear wild. Here are some of his stories from his book "Never Look a Polar Bear in the Eye."
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20 best iPhone apps for starters
Here's a selection of some essential and not-so-essential apps that will help you get by in a world increasingly dependent on digital interaction.
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C. S. Lewis: 10 quotes on his birthday
Here are 10 quotes to mark the birthday of C.S. Lewis, author of the beloved children's series "The Chronicles of Narnia."
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Tax VOX Apple taxes: business as usual
Apple cut its taxes with the same tools multinationals have been using for years to minimize their worldwide tax liability, Gleckman writes. Apple’s tax avoidance shop, it seems, is a lot less innovative than its phone designers.
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Apple 'tax gimmicks': rotten to the core or sensible business? (+video)
Two senators on Tuesday plan to grill Apple CEO Tim Cook about the company's tax practices, which they say cheat the US out of billions of dollars. Apple says it's playing within the rules.
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Robert Reich How corporations pressure government into tax breaks and subsidies
Google, Amazon, Starbucks, every other major corporation, and every big Wall Street bank, are sheltering as much of their US profits abroad as they can, Reich writes, while telling Washington that lower corporate taxes are necessary in order to keep the US 'competitive.'
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Country Girl
Trailblazing Irish novelist Edna O'Brien delivers the memoir she once believed she'd never write.
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EU austerity hawks shrug off criticism of flawed academic paper
Despite a new paper detailing flaws in the Rogoff-Reinhart study that has been used to argue in favor of austerity policies, Europe's austerity advocates are holding course.
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Travels with mother: In search of the world
Anne D'Innocenzio has traveled with her mother since she was a little girl. But at 80-something, her mother, ever fearless, is beginning to slow and told her that her traveling days are coming to an end.
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All Europeans related? Genes reveal a continent of cousins.
All Europeans are related, sharing a common ancestor as recently as 1,000 years ago, according to a gene study published today.
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Tax VOX Tax reform: how to fix the international tax mess
Corporate tax reform is impossible without addressing international issues, Gleckman writes. Yet, this corner of the tax law is not only immensely complex but most proposed solutions inevitably run into massive political and policy roadblocks.
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3 new foreign mystery novels that are worth your travel time
Craving a foreign excursion? Try the next best thing – one of these mystery novels set in far-away lands.
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Irish bill aims to enable life-saving abortions
Irish lawmakers presented guidelines describing when life-saving terminations could be allowed. Opponents of the bill worried it would become a platform for further expanding abortion rights in Ireland.
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Irish bill brings more clarity – and more heat – to abortion debate
The Protection of Life in Pregnancy Bill spells out the terms where women could obtain abortions, which are currently illegal. Ireland's prime minister vows it will be law by summer.
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Focus With no jobs in the city, country life is coming back to Spain
After decades of population loss to cities, rural areas in Spain – and across Europe – have been gaining allure as havens from the ongoing recession.
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Ireland's coalition government rived by new abortion law
Ireland is introducing an abortion bill that would include mental health among factors that could put a woman's life at risk. Opponents say it would open the door to greater liberalization.
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Bangladesh building collapse: Is the country's reputation among the injured?
Following the collapse of a garment factory building on Wednesday morning in Bangladesh, physicians at nearby hospitals were overwhelmed by the number of people needing attention. It appears factory owners ignored a warning not to let workers into the building when a crack was noticed on Tuesday.
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False tweet sinks stock market. Is anyone checking this stuff? (+video)
Stock markets tanked briefly (and then recovered) after the AP Twitter account was hacked and falsely announced a White House bombing. An array of new firms verify social media information to make sure clients aren't fooled.
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Chapter & Verse World Book Night: the most popular books and which Broadway show is getting involved
World Book Night, the celebration of reading which includes the distribution of free books, has arrived.
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Pink full moon Thursday: Who gets to see it?
April's full moon is traditionally called the 'pink moon,' a reference to pink phlox, one of the earliest flowers of spring. This week's 'pink moon' might actually appear pinkish in Europe, Africa, or Asia, where spectators will see a partial lunar eclipse.
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Rhino head heist: Half a million euros' worth stolen from Irish museum
The thieves are expected to try to sell the horns in Asia. Europol claimed in 2011 that most of Europe's illegal rhino trade was committed by a single 'ethnically-Irish organized criminal group.'
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Southern Europe digs in against further austerity, as IMF calls for relief
But the EU has little room to give, as Europe waits for signals from September elections in Germany – the ultimate decider of Europe's economic direction.
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Chapter & Verse World Book Night US: Washington, Michigan, and New York attract the most volunteers
As World Book Night approaches again, a list of rankings shows where volunteers – who give away free books on April 23 – are most heavily clustered in the US.
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Ireland takes step toward gay marriage rights
Ireland's Constitutional Convention voted Sunday, with 79 percent in favor of extending marriage rights to same-sex couples. Next up will likely be a referendum.
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Energy Voices Why peak oil demand is already a major problem
Oil demand has to do with how much oil we can afford, Tverberg writes, and many of the developed nations are not able to outbid the developing nations when it comes to the world’s limited oil supply.
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Global News Blog Irish bank forges in the smithy of its soul a botched James Joyce coin
The Central Bank of Ireland will not withdraw a 10 euro coin that it minted to commemorate Irish novelist James Joyce, even though the coin misquotes a line from his masterpiece 'Ulysses.'
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Europe indicates it's sticking with austerity. But is that working?
Herman Van Rompuy said on Monday that Europe would hold the course on austerity, but experts say there has been too little focus on growth and a lack of actual reforms.
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Pope Francis launched sainthood process for Argentine priests
Pope Francis, then known as Archbishop Jorge Bergoglio, urged the beatification of martyred Argentine priests. A colleague says they "weren't killed because of their ideology or politics but because they preached the gospel of life in a time when life was being threatened."
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