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Britain is in a heated debate over Muslim women who wear face-covering veils, and whether the practice hurts communication between communities. A Muslim teaching assistant has been suspended for refusing to take off her veil while teaching at a school in the north of England.

Kazakhstan's wounded pride over a comedian's portrayal of the country as a land of backward, racist yokels may be behind a recent flurry of late-night TV ads promoting the country.

Prop 85 on the November ballot would require doctors to notify parents at least 48 hours before performing an abortion on a minor. Some in the medical and legal community have serious reservations abo

Ecuador's presidential election is heading for a second round. Sunday's balloting reduced a field of 13 to two men -- one a banana tycoon, the other a left-wing supporter of Venezuela's president, Hugo Chavez.

Voters in Ecuador are choosing a new president today. In the lead among the 13 candidates is Rafael Correa, an anti-U.S. ally of Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez. But tycoon Alvaro Noboa is likely to force a run-off. He has been warning voters that Correa could roll back economic freedoms.

Since retiring from professional chess, former World Chess Champion Garry Kasparov has turned his powers of strategic thinking to the game of politics, founding an umbrella group to promote free elections in his homeland. Kasparov says that politics in Russia, unlike the game of chess, has no rules.

Former Rep. Gerry Studds, the first openly gay man elected to Congress, dies at 69. He retired in 1997. Studds was censured by the House in 1983 after admitting an affair with a 17-year-old former page, but won re-election.

Hou Hsiao Hsien is quite simply one of the world's premier filmmakers yet his films are lucky to play a few festival dates here in the U.S. The San Diego International Film Festival used to champion his work and Madstone Theaters brought in Hou's

Last year Philip Seymour Hoffman won an Oscar for playing Truman Capote. This year Capote is the subject of another Hollywood film, this one is from Douglas McGrath and is called

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