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• Financial Times: Coty seeks to woo Avon investors
• Financial Times: Angola oil zone rebels offer peace talks
• Financial Times: Leading Tiananmen-era dissident dies in US
• Aljazeera: Peruvian miners trapped for three days
• Aljazeera: Suspects arrested in US shootings
• Huffington Post: Some Alaska Polar Bears Losing Their Fur, USGS Says
• Huffington Post: 'Desert Outlook,' New LGBT Magazine, Launched By 'The Desert Sun,' Features Dianne Feinstein And Hank Plante
• Huffington Post: Know Thine Enemy: The Worst Anti-LGBT Moments Of The Week, April 1 - April 8
• Huffington Post: Obama Campaign On Easter: Bo Takes Inspiration From Easter Bunny (PHOTO)
• Aljazeera: Deadly car bomb hits north Nigeria city
• Aljazeera: Saudi Arabia puts al-Qaeda suspects on trial

Financial Times: Coty seeks to woo Avon investors Posted: 06 Apr 2012 11:03 AM PDT Bart Becht aims to convince shareholders to discuss $10bn bid saying that 'without thorough due diligence' the $10bn bid is 'just not possible'

Financial Times: Angola oil zone rebels offer peace talks Posted: 06 Apr 2012 11:04 AM PDT Separatists in Cabinda have offered a ceasefire and called for negotiations that could herald an end to conflict in the key crude-producing region

Financial Times: Leading Tiananmen-era dissident dies in US Posted: 07 Apr 2012 09:19 PM PDT Fang Lizhi, one of the most famous Chinese activists, has passed away aged 76

Aljazeera: Peruvian miners trapped for three days Posted: 08 Apr 2012 12:24 AM PDT Rescue workers continue to struggle to save nine workers trapped by a planned, but faulty, explosion.

Aljazeera: Suspects arrested in US shootings Posted: 08 Apr 2012 07:41 AM PDT Two white men held in Oklahoma state after recent attacks that left three people dead and two others critically wounded.

Huffington Post: Some Alaska Polar Bears Losing Their Fur, USGS Says Posted: 08 Apr 2012 08:56 AM PDT ANCHORAGE, Alaska -- Alaska polar bears are losing their fur and U.S. Geological Survey scientists don't know why. In the past two weeks, nine of 33 bears checked by scientists in the southern Beaufort Sea region near Barrow were found to have alopecia – loss of fur – and skin lesions, said Tony DeGange, chief of the biology office at the USGS Science Center in Anchorage. Read More...

Huffington Post: 'Desert Outlook,' New LGBT Magazine, Launched By 'The Desert Sun,' Features Dianne Feinstein And Hank Plante Posted: 08 Apr 2012 09:01 AM PDT The Desert Sun, the daily newspaper of Palm Springs, owned by the Gannett media company, which includes USA Today, launched an LGBT monthly magazine on Sunday, becoming the first mainstream newspaper to target the LGBT community with a monthly magazine. Desert Outlook will, according to its mission statement, celebrate the people who help "define southern California, our world and the future by living proudly and openly." The inaugural issue includes an in-depth interview with Senator Dianne Feinstein, about the California Democrat taking the lead in the Senate to repeal the Defense of Marriage Act, by award-winning retired gay journalist Hank Plante, who is also a columnist at the Sun. "To my knowledge, this is the first time that a mainstream newspaper has put out an LGBT magazine and this is groundbreaking," Plante told the Sun. "I'm really proud that The Desert Sun and Gannett would get behind this. I think they're betting on the future." Read More... More on Magazines

Huffington Post: Know Thine Enemy: The Worst Anti-LGBT Moments Of The Week, April 1 - April 8 Posted: 08 Apr 2012 09:19 AM PDT Every weekend we bring you a round up of either the best LGBT moments from the week before -- our Something To Celebrate series -- or, as you'll see below, the worst anti-LGBT stories from the last seven days in our Know Thine Enemy feature. You can think of Know Thine Enemy as a primer filled with some of the anti-LGBT rhetoric being leveled against us, as a reminder of how far we still have to go, and maybe even as a chance to have a laugh (because let's be honest, some of this stuff is so ridiculous it can be pretty hilarious). Check out the stories we covered this week below -- all in one convenient slideshow -- and let us know who you think the biggest enemy of the LGBT community was in the comments section. Read More... More on Gay Marriage

Huffington Post: Obama Campaign On Easter: Bo Takes Inspiration From Easter Bunny (PHOTO) Posted: 08 Apr 2012 09:30 AM PDT First dog Bo Obama takes his inspiration from the Easter Bunny, according to President Barack Obama's campaign. Below, a tweet from @barackobama on Sunday and a picture of Bo included in the message. Read More... More on Barack Obama

Aljazeera: Deadly car bomb hits north Nigeria city Posted: 08 Apr 2012 10:22 AM PDT At least 15 dead after car bomb explodes in the centre of the town of Kaduna on busy Easter Sunday.

Aljazeera: Saudi Arabia puts al-Qaeda suspects on trial Posted: 08 Apr 2012 10:39 AM PDT Fifty men charged with killing US citizen, attacking housing and plotting strikes on US and British embassies

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