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The US vice-president's long experience in the Senate means that he is in demand pushing through President Barack Obama's ambitious legislative agenda

Financial Times: Concerns raised over G8 summit venue

Posted: 04 Jan 2013 01:31 PM PST

Diplomats are fretting over whether the five-star Lough Erne resort in Northern Ireland will be up to scratch amid security and accommodation fears

Aljazeera: Friend of India rape victim recounts ordeal

Posted: 04 Jan 2013 10:42 PM PST

Man with victim when she was gang raped gives first public account, saying attack "was so brutal I can't even tell you".

Aljazeera: Church of England lifts ban on gay bishops

Posted: 05 Jan 2013 12:06 AM PST

Homosexual male clergy who live with their partners now allowed to be ordained bishops on condition they stay celibate.

Aljazeera: Deadly grenade attack in Kenya's Dadaab camp

Posted: 05 Jan 2013 12:33 AM PST

Two youths killed and seven people injured in attack on popular eating place in northeast Kenya's refugee camp complex.

Aljazeera: Syria fights off rebel advance on Damascus

Posted: 05 Jan 2013 04:41 AM PST

Government bombards opposition strongholds in Damascus suburbs to fend off fierce rebel campaign to take the capital.

Huffington Post: 'Parenthood' Actress Sarah Ramos Heads To 'Private Practice' And More Casting News

Posted: 05 Jan 2013 10:03 AM PST

From cancer patient's daughter to patient.

Sarah Ramos, who stars as Haddie Braverman on "Parenthood," will guest star in the Jan. 22 series finale of "Private Practice," according The Hollywood Reporter.

In the episode entitled, "In Which We Say Goodbye," Ramos will play a patient of Violet's (Amy Brennenman). The finale, which wraps up the series' six-season run, also features Addison's (Kate Walsh) wedding to Jake (Benjamin Bratt).

Huffington Post: Nebraska Lion Cubs Born At Omaha's Henry Doorly Zoo (PHOTO)

Posted: 05 Jan 2013 10:25 AM PST

By Karen Brooks
Jan 5 (Reuters) - Five African lion cubs were born last week in a Nebraska zoo, the latest success in a national effort to raise the population of the vulnerable species.
Two males and three females were born Dec. 29 at Omaha's Henry Doorly Zoo and Aquarium, considered a global leader in wild animal conservation and genetics.
Four are on display in the zoo, while one female cub, born weak and underweight, is gaining strength under intensive care in the zoo hospital, where she is being bottle fed and is expected to rejoin her mother when she gains more weight, according to a zoo statement.
The zoo also has four adult African lions, one male and three females.
The births of the lions, which are of the subspecies krugeri, are part of a push by the Association of Zoos and Aquariums to breed lions of known lineage.
In addition to the Omaha cubs, 11 more African lions have been born in AZA accredited zoos in North America, according to the zoo.
The father, Mr. Big, is 14 years old and weighs 560 pounds, and the mother, Mfisha, is six years old and weighs 335 pounds. This was their first litter. The last African lion cubs to be born at the Omaha zoo arrived in 1994.
Labeled a "vulnerable" species by the International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources, African lions, which live in sub-Sahara Africa, have seen their populations decline by up to 50 percent worldwide in the last two decades. (Reporting By Karen Brooks; Editing by Vicki Allen)

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