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UK tabloid: Duchess offered access for cash (AP)

Posted: 23 May 2010 05:27 PM PDT

FILE - In this Oct. 22, 2007 file photo Britain's Duchess of York, Sarah Ferguson arrives at the third annual Quill Awards, honoring books and authors, New York. Duchess of York Sarah Ferguson feels devastated after she was secretly recorded apparently offering to sell access to her ex-husband Prince Andrew in return for 500,000 pounds ($724,000), her spokeswoman said Sunday May 23, 2010. The tabloid News of the World posted video on its website that appears to show Ferguson discussing payment terms. She is heard to say '500,000 pounds when you can, to me, open doors.' Asked if she was referring to the prince, she said: 'Yeah.' The newspaper said Ferguson, 50, spoke to an undercover reporter posing as a businessman. (AP Photo/Stuart Ramson, file)AP - Duchess of York Sarah Ferguson said she was "very sorry" for her lapse of judgment after she was recorded apparently offering to sell access to her ex-husband Prince Andrew in return for 500,000 pounds ($724,000).

Rolling Stones return to top of album chart (AFP)

Posted: 23 May 2010 04:42 PM PDT

L-R: Musician Charlie Watts, singer Mick Jagger, and musician Keith Richards attend the re-release of The Rolling Stones' AFP - The Rolling Stones scored their first British number one album in 16 years Sunday after re-releasing one of their classic records, "Exile on Main Street."

Duchess of York apologises after paper sting (AFP)

Posted: 23 May 2010 03:26 PM PDT

Sarah Ferguson, Duchess of York, pictured in April 2010, apologised Sunday for a AFP - The Duchess of York apologised Sunday for a "serious lapse in judgment" after she was caught in a newspaper sting apparently offering access to ex-husband Prince Andrew in exchange for cash.

Duchess of York apologizes over newspaper sting (Reuters)

Posted: 23 May 2010 02:46 PM PDT

Britain's Duchess of York Sarah Ferguson poses for photographers at her arrival for the premiere of Reuters - Britain's Duchess of York, caught on camera apparently offering to sell access to her ex-husband, UK trade envoy Prince Andrew, said on Sunday she was sorry for her "serious lapse in judgment."

Govt to announce big spending cut plans (AFP)

Posted: 23 May 2010 02:42 PM PDT

The new coalition government will Monday outline how it plans to slash government spending by 6.0 billion pounds to reduce the nation's record deficit.(AFP/File/Shaun Curry)AFP - The new coalition government will Monday outline how it plans to slash government spending by 6.0 billion pounds to reduce the nation's record deficit.

Fiscal crises threaten Europe's generous benefits (AP)

Posted: 23 May 2010 01:55 PM PDT

A civil guard stands outside the Economic Ministry during a demonstration in Madrid Thursday May 20, 2010. The protest came after the Spanish Government announced job cuts for public employees and said it will raise taxes for high-income earners to help chip away at the country's outsized deficit. (AP Photo/Paul White)AP - Six weeks of vacation a year. Retirement at 60. Thousands of euros for having a baby. A good university education for less than the cost of a laptop.

BA strike set to go ahead amid escalating war of words (AFP)

Posted: 23 May 2010 12:27 PM PDT

A British Airways aircraft taxis past other parked British Airways aircraft at Terminal 5 of Heathrow Airport in west London on May 21. BA cabin crew were set to strike for five days from Monday after a last-ditch attempt to avert the walkout ended in failure amid an escalating war of words.(AFP/File/Carl de Souza)AFP - BA cabin crew were set to strike for five days from Monday after a last-ditch attempt to avert the walkout ended in failure amid an escalating war of words.

Man sentenced to death in Iraq for Russian killings (Reuters)

Posted: 23 May 2010 11:50 AM PDT

Reuters - An Iraqi court has sentenced to death a man accused of the kidnapping and killing of five Russian embassy civil servants, the Iraqi cabinet said in a statement on Sunday.

French farmers turn Champs Elysees green (AFP)

Posted: 23 May 2010 11:24 AM PDT

Visitors stroll on the Champs-Elysees avenue in Paris. The road has been turned into a huge farm with plots of plants, trees and flowers laid out on Paris' most famous avenue to focus attention on France's crisis-hit agriculture.(AFP/Fred Dufour)AFP - French farmers turned the Champs Elysees into a vast farm covered with plants, trees, flowers and livestock on Sunday to draw attention to the crisis hitting the country's agricultural sector.

Russia gives U.S. Afghan drugs data, criticizes NATO (Reuters)

Posted: 23 May 2010 11:22 AM PDT

Reuters - Russia's top drugs official gave a list of Afghan and Central Asian drug barons to U.S. anti-drugs tsar Gil Kerlikowske Sunday, but criticized U.S.-led forces in Afghanistan for failing to stem opium output.

607 evacuated as German 'Love Boat' catches fire (AP)

Posted: 23 May 2010 09:42 AM PDT

AP - A cruise ship made famous by a German "Love Boat" TV show caught fire Sunday, forcing 607 people aboard to evacuate in a western Norwegian port, rescue officials said.

Ancient sect hopes for boost from pope's visit (AP)

Posted: 23 May 2010 04:48 AM PDT

In this photo made May 9, 2010 a Catholic nun surveys a collection of icons in a newly-built icon sanctuary adjoined to Saint George's Cathedral in the Maronite Catholic village of Kormakitis in the remote northwestern tip of divided Cyprus. The Maronites hope Pope Benedict's trip to the island in early June will buttress their 6,000 strong community amid fears it is disappearing by assimilating with the larger Orthodox Christian Greek Cypriot population.AP - In the coffee shop at this farming village on the northern Cyprus coast, the conversation jumps from one hardship to the next: a bad rainy season, a religion weakened by assimilation, and a division of the island that has lasted 36 years with no end in sight.

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