Ministers 'to Redefine Poverty'

A 24-year-old woman is seriously injured by a tiger at a zoo in Cumbria.

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The biographer whose extramarital affair with then-CIA director David Petraeus triggered his resignation says she regrets the relationship and the harm and grief it caused her family.    

Boston Mayor Thomas M. Menino formally threw his support behind US Representative Edward J. Markey on Friday, but said he could explain neither the Malden Democrat’s string of missed votes in Congress or decision not to release his tax returns until the Friday of Memorial Day weekend. “I can’t explain that,” Menino told reporters of Markey’s timing around the tax disclosure. “Everybody runs their own campaign, and their own political situation, what they do publicly and privately. I can’t explain that at all.”    

The Syrian government has agreed to attend a conference proposed by Russia and the United States on ending the country's civil war, the Russian Foreign Ministry said Friday, the first sign that President Bashar Assad's regime would be willing to take part in the talks with the opposition.