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• Rangers' Smith hails his squad's title success (AFP)
• Burnley's Laws pleads for club's restoration job (AFP)
• Rooney wins PFA player of the year award (AFP)
• Vatican says 'case closed' in gaffe over pope's visit (AFP)
• French driving veil row escalates (AFP)
• Hungary's Fidesz wins historic two-thirds mandate (Reuters)
• Parties jostle as vote polls point to hung parliament (AFP)
• Hungarian conservatives win parliamentary majority (AFP)
• Suspicion of polygamy stokes France's veil debate (AP)
• Iran makes little headway in diplomatic offensive (AP)
• Pope: priests must protect kids (AP)
• UK apologizes to Vatican over Pope visit jokes (AP)
• Europe studies lessons of living with volcanos (AP)
• Top Spanish bullfighter gored in Mexico (AP)
• Story on toxic waste wins Pearl reporting award (AP)
• Swiss police: US, Moroccan die in cliff fall (AP)

Rangers' Smith hails his squad's title success (AFP) Posted: 25 Apr 2010 06:18 PM PDT AFP - Rangers manager Walter Smith saluted his side after clinching back-to-back Scottish Premier League titles courtesy of Kyle Lafferty's goal in a 1-0 win over Hibernian to lift some of the gloom amid well-documented financial struggles.

Burnley's Laws pleads for club's restoration job (AFP) Posted: 25 Apr 2010 05:58 PM PDT AFP - Burnley manager Brian Laws insisted he would remain in charge of the club despite a 4-0 defeat to Liverpool condemning them to relegation after just one season in the top flight.

Rooney wins PFA player of the year award (AFP) Posted: 25 Apr 2010 05:22 PM PDT AFP - Manchester United and England striker Wayne Rooney won the Professional Footballers' Association player of the year award at a ceremony here on Sunday and then declared his readiness for the World Cup.

Vatican says 'case closed' in gaffe over pope's visit (AFP) Posted: 25 Apr 2010 03:42 PM PDT AFP - The Vatican moved Sunday to calm the waters after a British official document suggested the pope should open an abortion clinic and bless a gay marriage during his visit later this year.

French driving veil row escalates (AFP) Posted: 25 Apr 2010 01:42 PM PDT AFP - A political row over the case of a French woman fined for driving in an Islamic veil gathered pace Sunday as a leading Muslim scholar and a French far-right leader both weighed in.

Hungary's Fidesz wins historic two-thirds mandate (Reuters) Posted: 25 Apr 2010 01:39 PM PDT Reuters - Hungary's next prime minister Viktor Orban said on Sunday voters had carried out a "revolution" by giving his party two thirds of the seats in parliament to rebuild Hungary after a near financial collapse.

Parties jostle as vote polls point to hung parliament (AFP) Posted: 25 Apr 2010 01:29 PM PDT AFP - The leader of likely kingmakers in the May 6 election, the Liberal Democrats, warned Sunday he would not prop up a wounded Prime Minister Gordon Brown, as polls point to a hung parliament.

Hungarian conservatives win parliamentary majority (AFP) Posted: 25 Apr 2010 01:25 PM PDT AFP - Hungary's conservative Fidesz party secured a two-thirds parliamentary majority after the second round of general elections on Sunday, giving it free reign to change the constitution.

Suspicion of polygamy stokes France's veil debate (AP) Posted: 25 Apr 2010 12:00 PM PDT AP - She was fined for driving a car with a veil covering all but her eyes. Now, her husband is suspected of polygamy.

Iran makes little headway in diplomatic offensive (AP) Posted: 25 Apr 2010 11:21 AM PDT AP - Iran's push to avoid new U.N. sanctions appeared to make little headway Sunday with Austria, with the Security Council member saying the onus was on Tehran to defuse international concerns about its nuclear agenda if it wanted to avoid fresh penalties.

Pope: priests must protect kids (AP) Posted: 25 Apr 2010 08:09 AM PDT AP - Pope Benedict XVI told priests Sunday to safeguard children in their charge from evil and win the "absolute" trust of their flock, even as his own papacy is clouded by accusations he and other top churchmen failed to protect minors adequately from pedophile clergy.

UK apologizes to Vatican over Pope visit jokes (AP) Posted: 25 Apr 2010 06:09 AM PDT AP - Britain's Foreign Office issued a hasty apology Sunday to Pope Benedict XVI after publication of an internal memo in which officials joked he could open an abortion clinic, launch a range of condoms or sing a duet with Queen Elizabeth II during a four-day visit in September.

Europe studies lessons of living with volcanos (AP) Posted: 25 Apr 2010 05:58 AM PDT AP - In the ageless contest between man and nature, nature reasserted its primacy for an entire week, crippling air travel around the world and sending shudders through the global economy.

Top Spanish bullfighter gored in Mexico (AP) Posted: 25 Apr 2010 03:47 AM PDT AP - One of Spain's top matadors was seriously injured in Mexico when a 1,100-pound (500-kilogram) bull gored him in the groin and hoisted him into the air, causing major blood loss, his manager said Sunday.

Story on toxic waste wins Pearl reporting award (AP) Posted: 25 Apr 2010 01:36 AM PDT AP - A joint report by European journalists on the dumping of toxic waste in Ivory Coast has won the Daniel Pearl Award for international investigative reporting.

Swiss police: US, Moroccan die in cliff fall (AP) Posted: 25 Apr 2010 12:41 AM PDT AP - Swiss police say an American woman and a Moroccan man attending a prestigious Swiss boarding school have died after falling several hundred feet down a cliff.

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