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Conservative Arizona sheriff Paul Babeu resigned over the weekend as chair of Mitt Romney's Arizona campaign. After announcing his run for Congress, the Phoenix New Times reported that he's gay and had previously threatened a Mexican boyfriend with deportation.
Read MoreThe sentencing of four top football referees in China on corruption charges is a major story in Friday's newspapers.
Beijing News and other regional papers lead with the story, which involved former "golden whistle" and top-level referee Lu Jun dubbed a "black whistle" (corrupt referee) and jailed.
He and three other defendants were sentenced to between three-and-a-half and seven years of imprisonment for bribery relating to match fixing.
South Sudan will survive despite halting its vital oil production in a dispute with Sudan, the country's Vice-President Riek Machar has told the BBC.
Oil revenues account for 98% of income for the country, which gained independence from Sudan last year.
But the two never agreed on the transit fees that Juba should pay for using Sudan's oil export infrastructure.
Mr Machar said development would be put on hold for several years, but basic services would not suffer.
He said government salaries, including for those for members of the large military, would be paid.
"For a period… Read More
Iran became a unique Islamic republic in 1979, when the monarchy was overthrown and religious clerics assumed political control under supreme leader Ayatollah Khomeini.
Iran, which has built its first atomic power station - at Bushehr, in the south of the country - with Russian help, says its nuclear ambitions are peaceful. President Ahmadinejad says Iran has an "inalienable right" to produce nuclear fuel.
In 2010, the UN voted to impose a fourth round of sanctions on Iran over the issue. Two months later, Tehran announced that engineers had begun loading fuel into the Bushehr plant and described… Read More
Standard & Poor's Ratings Services rebajó las calificaciones de 15 bancos españoles, un mes después que la firma rebajara la calificación del país.
La agencia rebajó las calificaciones crediticias a largo plazo de 10 bancos en un escaño, al tiempo que redujo las evaluaciones de sus perfiles crediticios individuales.
La firma rebajó de "AA-" a "A+" las calificaciones de Banco Santander SA, Banco Español de… Read More
An Afghan truck driver and street cleaner has been given one of the country's most prestigious awards - the Mir Masjidi Khan medal - for almost 50 years of unbroken service to the city of Kabul. The truck he drove was also presented as a gift. He told the BBC's Bilal Sarwary about how he kept working during Afghanistan's most volatile half century - coup or no coup.
I have always resolved that no matter what, I would never leave Afghanistan.
When the Russians left and President Najibullah took over I continued to do my job. Only one major thing changed in my life: I moved my family house to… Read More
Armed men have broken into a jail in Nigeria using bombs and heavy gunfire, freeing 119 inmates, officials say.
A prison service spokeswoman told the BBC the armed men killed a jail officer during the attack, in the central Kogi state, on Wednesday evening.
Most of the prisoners were awaiting trial and none were high-profile detainees, according to officials.
Islamist militant group Boko Haram later said it carried out the attack, freeing seven of its members.
The group has carried out similar jailbreaks before, including a massive 2010 attack on a prison further north in Bauchi state.
In… Read More
Mais empresas privadas chinesas estão tendo acesso ao mercado nacional de títulos de dívida, que durante muito tempo foi dominado por emissores estatais, enquanto Pequim tenta aumentar a sua base financeira como parte dos esforços para se abrir gradativamente ao capital estrangeiro.
O volume de títulos emitidos por empresas não-estatais, apesar de ainda pequeno, ajuda a expandir a abrangência do mercado da dívida da… Read More
Mobile advertising company InMobi Pte. Ltd. is in its second avatar. It started in early 2007 in mobile search but after a short and dismal run, InMobi switched to the nascent business of mobile advertising.
Bangalore-based InMobi decided to make a bet on emerging markets in Asia and Africa and now has the second-largest mobile-advertising network globally, after Google… Read More
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