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Ireland Appears To Approve Same-Sex Marriage

9:48pm May 23, 2015

Results are coming in from Ireland's vote on same-sex marriage. It's not just a referendum on gay rights; it's also a litmus test for how much this socially conservative country has changed recently.

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Historian May Have Discovered Henry I's Final Resting Place

9:48pm May 23, 2015

by Scott Simon

Yet another English monarch might be buried underneath an English parking lot. Scott Simon has more.

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The Bank of England in London in a photograph taken in March. The central bank inadvertently revealed that it was planning for a possible withdrawal of the U.K. from the European Union.

Email Slip Reportedly Reveals United Kingdom Plan For Possible EU Exit

4:33pm May 23, 2015

by Scott Neuman

In the communication that The Guardian says it received accidentally from the Bank of England, officials outlined details of the plan known as "Operation Bookend."

A campaign poster in Dublin encourages voters to say no to same-sex marriage ahead of a referendum in Dublin on Friday.

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Conservative, Catholic Ireland Votes On Same-Sex Marriage

5:17pm May 22, 2015

by Ari Shapiro

In every country where same-sex marriage has been legalized, it was brought about by lawmakers or the courts. On Friday, Ireland could become the first country to make it legal by the ballot box.

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Nuns vote on a referendum to legalize same-sex marriage, at a polling station in County Dublin, Ireland, on Friday.

Irish Voters Decide Whether To Legalize Same-Sex Marriage

2:08pm May 22, 2015

by Scott Neuman

Polls show the "yes" vote is stronger in the conservative, predominantly Catholic country. But public opinion surveys could be masking a "shy no vote," observers say.

Macedonians, Ethnic Albanians Unite Over Effort to Oust Prime Minister

3:49am May 22, 2015

by Joanna Kakissis

Macedonia escaped largely unscathed from the ethnic violence that defined the breakup of Yugoslavia. But the country's Slavs and Albanians live largely separate and unequal lives, until now.

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Visitors look at a set at the famed Cinecittà films studio near Rome in 2012. The 100-acre, 22-stage facility is one of Europe's largest studios. It flourished in the 1950s and '60s but fell on hard times beginning in the 1980s. Now, it's undergoing a re

Rome's Cinematic 'Dream Factory' Ramps Up Production Once Again

8:27pm May 21, 2015

by Sylvia Poggioli

Blockbusters like Ben-Hur were filmed at Cinecittà, a 100-acre movie metropolis, during its heyday. After decades of hard times, a tax credit has sparked a revival of "Hollywood on the Tiber."

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Irish Voters Prepare To Decide On Same-Sex Marriage

7:07pm May 21, 2015

by Ari Shapiro

Ireland could make history Friday when voters decide whether to legalize same-sex marriage. It would be a striking change for a country where abortion is still outlawed and divorce was only legalized in the mid-1990s.

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Revelations Of British Pedophile Ring Spur Flood Of Abuse Reports

7:44am May 21, 2015

by Vicki Barker

There were whispers of a pedophile ring at the highest levels of British government. Revelations suggest those rumors had substance and that a culture of deference helped hide child abuse for decades.

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'My Fair Lady' Couldn't Actually Dance All Night, So These Songs Had To Go

7:17pm May 20, 2015

by Bob Mondello

The musical has some of the best-known songs in Broadway history, but it originally had other tunes that almost no one knows. Some of those songs were recently performed for the first time in decades.

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