California's Coronado named No. 1 U.S. beach
LOS ANGELES - With Americans packing up for travel over the Memorial Day weekend, one coastal hot spot in Southern California is winning praise as the best U.S. beach in an annual ranking from a Florida professor.
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Greek burglars cash in as savers flee banks
ATHENS - Andreas and Emilia Karabalis, who are both 80, feared their bank in Greece would collapse, so they withdrew their 80,000 euros ($100,000) savings and stashed it at home for safety.
Story by Pultizer Prize winner serialized on Twitter
NEW YORK - A story by Pulitzer Prize-winning author Jennifer Egan for the New Yorker is being serialized in 10 installments on Twitter, according to the magazine.
Book Talk: Author explores Jewish sect she left
TOKYO - Like the characters of her book, Anouk Markovits grew up inside the strict Satmar Hasidic Jewish sect, where reading novels was frowned upon and she was expected to wed in an arranged marriage at a young age.
Bounty hunter on the trail of Arab Spring loot
GENEVA - Growing up in Africa, he used to hunt buffalo, a passion that still serves Geneva-based lawyer Enrico Monfrini well. His dogged pursuit of ill-gotten assets has made him the scourge of many of the world's dictators and kleptocrats.
Church of England nears vote on women bishops
LONDON - The Church of England paved the way on Thursday for a final vote on women bishops to go ahead in July, but supporters angry at last-minute concessions to traditionalists who favour an all-male clergy immediately threatened to scupper it.
The SpaceX mission
A privately owned unmanned rocket blasts off from Cape Canaveral on a mission to be the first commercial flight to the International Space Station.
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