 | Hillary Rodham Clinton stayed on safe political ground Tuesday, advocating women’s rights globally in a 12-minute speech, but that was enough to excite fans imploring the former first lady, senator and secretary of state to run again for president three years from now. |
 | South Korean rapper Psy is promising a ‘Psy style’ take on a traditional Korean dance to accompany the release next week of the highly-anticipated follow-up to his global hit ‘Gangnam Style’. |
 | Pope Francis prayed for a ‘political solution’ in Syria and for ‘reconciliation’ on the Korean peninsula in his first Easter Sunday message in front of a crowd in St Peter’s Square. |
 | Kenya’s Supreme Court upheld Uhuru Kenyatta’s presidential election victory on Saturday and his defeated rival accepted the ruling, helping douse tensions after tribal violence blighted the election five years ago. |
 | NAIROBI - Kenya’s president-elect Uhuru Kenyatta, the wealthy son of the country’s independence hero, brushed off international charges of crimes against humanity to present himself as a statesman with the economic skills to help ordinary citizens. |
 | Italian President Giorgio Napolitano is considering resigning immediately to make way for new parliamentary elections after attempts to form a government failed this week, a person close to the situation said on Saturday. |
 | LONDON — Richard Griffiths, the versatile British actor who played the boy wizard’s unsympathetic Uncle Vernon in the “Harry Potter” movies, has died. He was 65. |
 | Singer-songwriter Madonna has become the first billionaire female pop star. |
 | President Barack Obama nominated US Air Force General Philip Breedlove on Thursday to become NATO’s top military commander, a key role as NATO aims to wind down an 11-year-old combat mission in Afghanistan that has tested the resolve of allies. |
 | He still goes by ‘Bergoglio’ when speaking to friends, seems reluctant to call himself pope and has decided to live in the Vatican hotel rather than the grand papal apartment in the Apostolic Palace. |
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