• In what might be a harbinger of things to come in the Wisconsin State Senate recall elections likely to take place in July, a Democrat has taken a Republican held seat in the special election to replace Republican Assembly members who have joined the Walker Administration.

    FORBES: Wisconsin Democrat Wins Assembly Seat In Sign Of Things To Come

  • Jennings then ensured that Derry held on to take their chances in the shoot-out when he made a remarkable reaction save to deny sub Jamie Harris.

    BBC: Greg O'Halloran tries to turn Derry's Killian Brennan

  • People will be able to speak to doctors and register interest to take part in formal consultation to be held later this year.

    BBC: 'Show feeling' on Epsom Hospital, urges Surrey MP

  • But the rebels' advance in the district has been held up by disagreements between the groups over who should take the lead in the fight, he said.

    NPR: Qatar Faces Backlash Among Rebel Groups In Syria

  • Before the Senate vote Thursday, relatives of those killed in the Newtown shooting held a news conference in the Capitol urging the Senate to take up the legislation.

    WSJ: Gun Measure Clears Senate Hurdle

  • New York held on to take two of three games in a series between the teams with the highest and lowest payrolls in the majors.

    WSJ: Cano homers, Yankees hold off Astros 5-4

  • The burgeoning marketplace for the buying and selling of secondary shares in privately held companies could take a hit from the new definition of venture capital.

    FORBES: National Venture Capital Association "Cautiously Optimistic" on SEC's New VC Definition

  • During the forthcoming conclave, there will be 117 cardinals who are eligible to take part in the series of secret votes held to choose the next pontiff.

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  • Ichiro Suzuki's double-play grounder put the Yankees ahead and they held on to take two of three games in a series between the teams with the highest and lowest payrolls in the majors.

    WSJ: Cano homers, Yankees hold off Astros 5-4

  • Experts predict that, next fall, the Republicans will likely take over at least four seats currently held by Democrats in the House of Representatives, helping the Party expand its majority in Congress.

    NEWYORKER: State for Sale

  • But a read of them does give a glimpse into Keyes' mind, apparently describing how it felt to take a life and the disdain in which he held much of American society.

    CNN: FBI shares last thoughts of a murder addict

  • What will happen to the closed banks' trust funds, amounting to more than 7 trillion won, which the healthy banks are reluctant to take over lest they be held responsible for any losses in investors' portfolios?

    ECONOMIST: South Korea��s banks

  • When these books are read with the iPad held in landscape (horizontally), visuals take up large portions of the screen.

    WSJ: A Textbook Case of iPad Fun With Studying

  • The 1985 Israfel Society Conference, the first meeting of Edgar Allan Poe specialists to be held outside the northern hemisphere, was to take place in Buenos Aires, less than a thousand kilometres from my apartment in Bonfim, and was, therefore, within the budget of a poor translator and teacher of English (which, as you know, is what I am).

    NPR: Excerpt: 'Borges and the Eternal Orangutans'

  • The World Science Forum follows in the footsteps of the World Science Conference organized in Budapest in 1999 by UNESCO and ICSU. Unlike the previous sessions that were held in the Hungarian capital in 2003, 2005, 2007, and 2008, the next Forum will take place in Rio de Janeiro (Brazil).

    UNESCO: Budapest World Science Forum to examine the changing landscape of science | United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization

  • The project activities take into account the recommendations of the 10thBamiyanExpert Working Group meeting held in Tokyo last December.

    UNESCO: A new phase for the preservation of Afghan World Heritage

  • South Africa beat England to win the 2007 World Cup, which was held in France, while the 2011 event will take place in New Zealand.

    BBC: England weigh up 2015 bid options

  • Neither the year assemblies held in the gymnasium nor the tutor periods that take place on non-assembly days provide satisfactory opportunities for spiritual development and the school is continuing to fail to comply with statutory requirements for a daily act of collective worship for all pupils.

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  • Inevitably, the Irish produced late pressure but despite a few nervous moments in their defence, the visitors held on to take a deserved win.

    BBC: Republic of Ireland 2-3 Russia

  • Throughout the past decade, our policymakers have failed to take into account the important role that religion held (and still holds) in the structure of Afghan society.

    CNN: Islam key to Afghan Dream

  • If it is a stock that is not widely held, then it may take several weeks or months before the increase in activity is picked up by the financial media.

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  • This is why it was worrying to see members of Germany's centre-right Christian Democratic Union, which held power in Bonn for 16 years until last September, take to the streets this week.

    ECONOMIST: Where now for Europe��s right?

  • Business leaders in Cardiff say jobs could be at risk if concerts, such as the two sell-out shows Take That are staging in the stadium in June, are no longer held in the city.

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  • With this in mind, my recent participation in the SAP Telco Executive Advisory Council, held this September in Zurich, was the perfect occasion to take the pulse of some key decision makers in the industry and get a better sense of where they stand on this particular topic.

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  • Or for something more adrenaline-filled, the long-standing weekly Zoobombing meet up, held every Sunday evening, is where die-hard speed demons take part in high-speed, downhill bike races.

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  • On the eve of the July G8 summit, due to be held in Genoa, he will be lobbying key developed countries to take more action on abolishing Third World debt.

    BBC: Bob Geldof opens up about Paula

  • Our commanders will soon be hard pressed to preserve today's deployments of American forces in Iraq, let alone to have them take up once again the sorts of positions in the urban areas that they held to such therapeutic effect during the surge.

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  • Louis, I also joined Secretary Arne Duncan and Missouri Governor Jay Nixon at Carnahan High School of the Future to participate in the Great Central U.S. ShakeOut--the largest-ever, multi-state earthquake drill to be held in the United States, and the first major drill to take place along the New Madrid Seismic Zone, which was the site of one of the worst earthquakes in U.S. history nearly 200 years ago.

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  • If approved, he'd take the position recently held by Hilda L. Solis, a former congresswoman who resigned in January.

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  • The debate was held ahead of the upcoming summit between the EU and the US to take place in Lisbon later in the month.

    BBC: MEPs welcome US economic partnership

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