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CAPE TOWN, South Africa – Shamed by daily headlines about murder, rape and assault and a study showing four women are killed every day by their partners, South African authorities are trying to launch community-based campaigns to curb the rate of domestic violence (search). Local officials organized a meeting Wednesday …

PUERTO LA LIBERTAD, El Salvador – Hurricane Adrian (search) slammed into El Salvador’s coast before dawn Friday, cutting off power and forcing officials to close schools and evacuate some 14,000 people. The storm quickly weakened as it raced across Central America, and no deaths directly linked to the storm were …

WASHINGTON – Minority Democrats on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee have taken up the most space in the panel’s report on John Bolton (search), President Bush’s nominee to be U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, but differences from Republican perspectives are perhaps even more pronounced. The eight-page majority report recaps …

This is a partial transcript from “Hannity & Colmes,” May 2, 2005, that has been edited for clarity. Watch “Hannity & Colmes” weeknights at 9 p.m. ET! ALAN COLMES, CO-HOST: Earlier today Sean spoke exclusively to Jennifer Wilbanks’ (search) fiancé John Mason. He also spoke with her father, Harris Wilbanks, …

NEW YORK – To the dismay of gay-rights activists, the Food and Drug Administration (search) is about to implement new rules recommending that any man who has engaged in homosexual sex in the previous five years be barred from serving as an anonymous sperm donor (search). The FDA has rejected …

WASHINGTON – Gay men’s brains respond differently from those of heterosexual males when exposed to a sexual stimulus, researchers have found. The homosexual men’s brains responded more like those of women when the men sniffed a chemical from the male hormone testosterone (search). “It is one more piece of evidence …

LAPORTE, Ind. – Businessman Jeffrey Ake (search) routinely urged entrepreneurs to travel to other countries to pitch their products, once telling a group to think of foreign nations as “U.S. states with cultural nuances thrown in.” But Ake’s frequent travels also made him a possible target. He is believed to …

For the first time in a long time, no single issue dominated the show or the headlines. Although we will be on at 5 a.m. ET on Monday for the beginning of the conclave (search) at the Vatican, expect a very balanced broadcast again this week. We really had some …

VATICAN CITY – A closed bronze door. Drawn shutters. Tolling bells. Somber music. They are all signs that a pontiff has passed. Over the centuries, the most traditional and telling signal that a pope has died has been the tolling of the Vatican’s bells, which prompts churches across Rome to …

BEIJING – Japan’s (search) foreign minister arrived in Beijing Sunday to deliver a protest over violent anti-Japanese rallies, as Chinese police allowed new demonstrations over Tokyo’s wartime past and its bid for a permanent U.N. Security Council (search) seat. Tokyo denounced anti-Japanese violence in Shanghai, where police on Saturday let …