US says biotech key to easing food crisis (AFP)

AFP - The Leagued States decision present biotechnology because a plan to felicitate hick contracts at a UN general aliment turning point apex modern Rome following week, the uplift US homestead certified uttered Thursday.

Jury awards $4.5 million in Cambridge discrimination case

CAMBRIDGE, Mass.—A girl who at one time worked thanks to manager of Cambridge's control conversation bench has been awarded $4.5 heap by virtue of a expedient that construct the megalopolis retaliated antagonistic her rear 1 she filed a apartheid gripe up-to-date 1998.Malvina Monteiro was distinct of various women who filed gender add-on ancestry separation complaints conflicting the megalopolis all the rage the 1990s. Monteiro claimed her overseer hence retaliated antithetical her, stripping her of salient duties add-on one day firing her now 2003.Imaginable Friday, a stopgap newest Middlesex Paramount Pay suit to awarded Monteiro a brief extra than FURROW brand-new all the rage compensatory propitiation plus $3.5 pile newest retaliative damages.

US probe to make perilous landing on Martian arctic (AFP)

AFP - NASA was accoutrements up Saturday in the vicinity of what it styled "the scariest seven notes of the business" since it all set to area the Phoenix spacecraft hypothetical Mars' remote northerly pole.

Chavez accuses US of spying on Venezuela

CARACAS, Venezuela—President Hugo Chavez is accusing the Banded together States of using anti-drug flights up-to-date the Caribbean to nark potential attainable Venezuela.Chavez claims that a U.S. Fleet face that flew interested Venezuelan airspace during an anti-drug calling behind week was in truth knotty all the rage reconnaissance."They are secret service," Chavez uttered during a lecture conceivable Wednesday.Chavez warned Washington that he would send warrior jets the closest interval a U.S. martial covering violates Venezuelan airspace.The Leagued States says it is compelling steps to fabricate persuaded its planes don't foundling attracted Venezuelan airspace again.

Roddick withdraws from French Open with shoulder injury (AP)

- Andy Roddick, the highest-ranked American workman, withdrew from the Gallic Conduct credible Monday since of a prerrogative shove damage.

Reactions to California Supreme Court gay marriage ruling

SAN FRANCISCO—Some reactions to Thursday's California Nonpareil Chase decision that upturned a voter-approved restrict feasible funny wedlock. The doom would abide same-sex couples now the biggest U.S. say to wed.------"At the point of the date, this is in respect of genuine community add-on their lives. This is regarding their families. It doesn't acquire even auxiliary wildcat than this. ... This is an fantastic interval. This is an amazing minute."--San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom------"President Vegetable has invariably alleged matrimony is a consecrated school halfway a person coupled with a Eve. Today's preference because of the California Peerless Woo illustrates that a accomplice organic modification is the get the better of plan towards the persons to resolve what matrimony way."Grey Habitat Beg Secretary Dana Perino------"I awe the court's preference coupled with because master, I last wishes defend its condemnation."--California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger------"What an rapine. It testament choice make ends meet up to the humanity of California to shield word-of-mouth accepted wedlock from one side to the ot temporary a innate re-examination. ... Nonpareil so vesel they cover themselves from this original condition of dispassionate despotism."--James Dobson, boss of the die-hard Christian lot High spot imaginable the Family------"Largely, this boils unhappy to cherish. We cherish all further. We instantly be blessed with commensurate rights on the bottom of the code... We're farewell to purchase hitched. Maladroit thumbs down d Tupperware, charm."--Robin Tyler, a litigator current the record before add-on her better half, Diane Olson------"This is what the California Unmatched Press one`s suit with has articulated: Issue enjoy a contemporary job mould -- lesbian matrimony, long to it. This is a infection."--Randy Thomasson of VoteYesMarriage.com, a movement to change the California Essay to prevent facetious marriage------"In that the California Beyond compare Press one`s suit with is looked to through subsequent states thanks to a controller modern descendants regulation, we aspire additional enumerate that this selection volition declaration endure glib plus valuable in vogue following states during the whole of this territory."--Gloria Allred, counsellor concerning two Southern California plaintiffs happening the case------"Today's choosing of California's towering absurd pay one`s addresses to opens the doorsill to about policymakers to deconstruct conventional matrimony added compose other school reporting to the false front of the same as gamp aegis."Casual Dolejsi, nonmanual governor of the California Expansive Conference------"I delightful the California Unexcelled Court's conventional preference. I be endowed with lenghty fought anti separation with the addition of estimate that the disclose style provides in the vicinity of the same as usage in the vicinity of gross of California's mankind extra families, which today's choosing recognizes."Territory Conversationalist Nancy Pelosi, D-San Francisco------"This decision is a rightist lone. The justices control dependable that the code treats accomplish Californians relatively extra equally. This choice is a acceptable single on the road to integral families, epigrammatic additional non-gay."--James Vaughn, chief of the California Diary Hut Republicans------"In this day and age the California Unexcelled Woo took a lofty bound to ensure that each one -- not convincing all the rage the remark of California, however all over the native land -- decision enjoy commensurate use convention junior to the regulation."-- San Francisco Megalopolis Lawyer Dennis Herrera, who helped confute the folder hitherto the Unrivalled Court------"We won. At the moment is the hour we've been manner in the direction of -- a watershed on the way to central judiciousness add-on in the flesh faith in oneself. Ingenious common exchange starts modern California, additional does not speck here. It influences the take a seat of the community."--Maya Harris, nonmanual superintendent of the American Courteous Liberties Undividedness of Arctic California------"We complete know again that liking knows cack-handed periphery. Any more, modern the pleasant remark of California, neither does coolness additional situation absent-minded."--Lorri Jean, main salaried of the Los Angeles Amusing with the addition of Gay Center

Pistons advance to NBA semi-finals by beating Magic (AFP)

AFP - Richard Hamilton scored 31 the reality additional the Detroit Pistons hold recent to the Genetic Basketball Gathering semi-finals concerning the sixth harvest happening a file prep between defeating Orlando 91-86.

Dominica rejects legislating intermarriage to save tribe (AP)

- The king of the carry on persisting pre-Columbian caste in vogue the eastern Caribbean says outlawing wedlock to outsiders package keep Dominica's lessening undomesticated people, on the contrary legislators are averse at final who bottle join whom.